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by Meghnad Desai (Author)
The Great War at Kurukshetra is over. Eighteen lakh men have died. But the winners are not happy. Yudhishthira and his brothers are gripped with sorrow over what they have done. Who will bear the child to continue the Kuru clan? Uttara? Will Asvatthama also destroy the child that she is carrying? Hastinapur is barren of men of any age. It is the King's dharma to help every virgin in the kingdom, cross into womanhood. But Yudhishthira fails. There is now a dharmic crisis. The young woman, who will bear the child, must be found another king for the task before sunrise. Else, the kingdom will suffer even more. Who can solve the problem? Krishna, who else! Or rather he knows such a king who can. It is Maya. But Maya declines to follow the king's dharma. His refusal plunges the Kuru kingdom, and even Krishna himself, into another crisis. Who is Maya? Can Krishna eventually win him over? Mayabharata is a fascinating narration of the post-Mahabharata story, aided by the deployment of the author's imaginative and creative powers.
Author Biography
Meghnad Desai was born in 1940 in Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat. He completed his bachelor's and master's degree in Economics in 1958 and 1960, respectively, from University of Bombay (now Mumbai). He got his PhD from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, in 1964. He worked as an associate specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, from September 1963 to July 1965. He joined the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics in September 1965. He has worked as a lecturer (1965- 77), senior lecturer (1977- 80), rea
