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Anand Neelakantan’s second Book ‘Ajaya � Roll of the dice� is the story of Jaya, or Mahabharata as we popularly know it. However there is a twist, the tale is a narration from the Kaurava’s angle. History has always been from the side of the victorious as the losers never have a chance to elaborate their plot. Ajaya � Roll of the Dice gives them that power of speech to tell their story and not the ‘His story� version.
The Author beautifully portrays the mindset, lifestyle and caste dominancy of the Mahabharata times through a series of pre battle coaxes and doings that caused the epic to unfold in the first place. The fact that Arjuna was not the first to win the contest in getting Draupadi, but rather Karna, King of Anga who won it; the fact that Krishna created hatred towards Suyodhana and love for Arjuna in the heart of Shubadhra; the fact that based on Vedic laws a woman can only marry four men and beyond that, would term her a prostitute however for the sake of not creating strife between The Pandavas that rule was overlooked!
The book ends with a call for Draupadi to be presented to the Kaurava Clan where her fate lies in their hands. Anand Neelakantan’s second part to Ajaya � Roll of the Dice is set to release some time in 2014 and is sure to be as eye opening as its predecessor.