This book is about Karna’s life as he would have seen it himself. While touching upon the major events in the Epic Mahabharata, the author has put her imagination on how Karna might have perceived them. It is about Karna’s dreams, his struggles, and the bitter truth.
Nishita Ande is a 12-year-old girl studying at the Silver Oaks School, Hyderabad, India. She has a profound interest in ancient Indian Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. During the Covid pandemic, she got the opportunity to watch vintage serials aired on Doordarshan and, at the same time, recent web series on these Epics. She continues to pursue this interest by reading various adaptations of the different mythological stories. She loves to delve into the characters and imagine how their personality traits, thoughts, and emotions could have been. To pass her time, she either read books or weaves stories on her own.