Matsyagandha, Daseyi, Yojanagandha — the
queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a rishi, she
hardens herself, determined that the next time she is with a man, she will be the one to win. And
win she does: the throne of Hastinapur for herself, and the promise that her
sons will be heirs to the kingdom. But at what cost?
In a palace where she is disdained and
scorned, Satyavati must set aside her own loss and pain if she is to play the
game of politics. She learns to be ruthless, unscrupulous — traits that
estrange her from everyone around. Everyone, except the man she cheated of his
birthright.
A piercing, insightful look at the
grand matriarch of the Kuru family, the woman who set off the sequence of
events that ended in the bloody battle of Kurukshetra, The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty will
re-align your reading of the Mahabharata.
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