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Jaya: The Illustrated
Retelling of Mahabharata
Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings by the author, the 108 chapters abound with little known details such as the names of 100 Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan and Barbareek. The book includes the
lore of Shakauntalam as narrated in the Mahabharata - to throw
insight into the disturbing and complex human condition 3,000 years ago
that contoured the course of human history.
Medhasri Sen was at war with the woman everyone thought she was. No one knew this until to everyone's surprise she kills herself. Her brothers are secretly relieved. Abandoned by her husband for her strange unpredictable ways, she had been nothing but an embarrassment and a responsibility. But her suicide
disrupts the placid life of her journalist nephew, Satya, who discovers
that before her death, Medha had laid for him a trail of clues that lead
him to places that no one knew she had been to. At each place, Satya
finds stories and art works she had hidden and it slowly dawns on him
that he is rescuing the life work of a genuis.
As the separatists and
the government threaten peaceful Punjab in 1980s, another group, the
more feudal, looks West to escape. Away from this, Dave, a young Sikh is
searching for a place he can call home. Unable to complete his doctorate
in the US, he returns to India without a green card, much to the
disappointment of his parents. He moves from Chandigarh to Delhi in the
search for a job but is trapped in the 1984 Sikh massacre. Scarred, he
moves to Canada, shuns his life of affluence and is faced with choices
that change his life forever.
The inhabitants of that
period called it the land of the Meluha - a near perfect empire created
many centuries ago by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever
lived. The once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe
perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is drying to
extinction. They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east,
the land of the Chandravanshis. The only hope for the sun-worshippers is
an ancient legend - the descent of Shiva, the mighty warrior, from Tibet
to Meluha - the kingdom on earth with Kashmir as its gateway.
Bosses are tough,
metal-chewing characters, who will not lose a chance of snubbing
employees with a disdainful glance. Anurag Sachdeva is an IIM-Ahmedabad
graduate and a career investment banker, who is forced to become the
boss of the sick Ajanta Special Steel. But he has no clue about
manufacturing or steel plants. He is a nice guy but will that see him
through or his closest friend Manu and his wife, Alpana, who become his
closest management consultants. — IANS
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IN
this enthralling retelling of India's greatest epic, the Mahabharata,
originally known as Jaya, the writer seamlessly weaves into
single narrative plots from the Sanskrit classic as well as its many
folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chhattisgarh,
Gondhal of Maharashtra, Tenukuttu of Tamil Nadu and Yakshagana of
Karnataka.
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No
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