One of India's finest novelists retells the two great Indian epics as well as
some well-known tales from Hindu mythology and folklore. While the eleventh
century Tamil poet Kamban's version inspires his Ramayana, Narayan's Mahabharata
is based on Vyasa's monumental work. In Gods, Demons and Others, he includes
stories from Kalidasa's Sanskrit classic Abhijnana Shakuntalam, the Tamil epic
Silappadikaram, the Shiv Purana and the Devi Bhagwatam.