SynopsisMenaka’s Choice
Menaka, the most beautiful apsara blessed with intelligence and talent, craves for one thing she can never have family. Vishwamitra, a king who sacrifices his kingdom to perform austerities, becomes a threat to Indra. Indra sends Menaka to distract and seduce Vishwamitra.
What will happen when Menaka and Vishwamitra meet each other? Will Menaka finally find what she really wished for? Or will she again be forced to surrender to her destiny? Find out in this fascinating portrait of one of the most enduring mythological figures.
Sita’s Sister
As Sita prepares to go into exile with Ram and Lakshman, her younger sisters stay back at Ayodhya. But one woman of immense strength and conviction stands apart Urmila, whose husband, Lakshman, has chosen to accompany his brother Ram to the forest and abandon his bride. She could have accompanied Lakshman, but she did not. Why did she agree to be left behind in the palace, waiting for her husband for fourteen painfully long years? Find out the story of one of the most overlooked characters in the Ramayana.
Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen
Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen tells the extraordinary story of Karna, the unsung hero of the Mahabharata, through the eyes of his wife Uruvi.
An accomplished Kshatriya princess who falls in love with and dares to choose the ‘sutaputra’ over Arjun, Uruvi must face the social implications of her. Though she becomes his mainstay, counselling and guiding him, his blind allegiance to Duryodhana is beyond her power to change.
As the power struggle between Kuarvas and Pandavas build up, leading to the great war of the Mahabharata, Uruvi is a witness to the twists and turns of Karna’s fate; and how it is inextricably linked to divine design.
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About the author
A senior journalist with a career of over two decades, which includes working for Magna publication and DNA, she quit her job as Assistant Editor of Times of India to devote herself as a full time author. A self-styled aficionado of cinema and theatre and sufficiently armed with a post-graduate degree in English Literature and Mass Communication from the University of Pune, the only skill she knows, she candidly confesses, is writing.