Creating fiction, poetry and drama based on the Mahabharata, the Ramayana or the Puranas is a well-established tradition in Sanskrit and the Bhashas. Indian English novelists and poets have turned to reinterpretations of Hindu mythology in a big way only in the twenty-first century: the twentieth century had just a few writers, like KR Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo and TP Kailasam who attempted this. Christopher C Doyle has gone a step further; having studied the Mahabharata for fifteen years, he makes good use of incidents in the epic to build up his series of thrillers.
Action, Adventure, Mystery: Science meets the Mahabharata
Shyamala A Narayan
THE MAHABHARATA QUEST: THE KHANDAVAPRASTHA CONSPIRACY by Christopher C. Doyle Westland, Chennai, 2022, 391 pp., 499.00 (Book 3 of The Mahabharata Quest Series)
July 2023, volume 47, No 7