About the Book: Karna: The Great Warrior
'Who am I? It was a question that had troubled him all his life. His whole life
had seemed entangled in the answer. His dignity, his destination, his ambitions
-- they all seemed linked to that entanglement. The irony was that the truth,
instead of liberating him, had made him rudderless. In the Mahabharata, Karna is
known to be the only warrior who could match Arjuna. Born of a god and a mother
who abandons him at birth, Karna is mistreated from birth. Rejected by Drona,
taunted by Draupadi, insulted by his blood brothers, misunderstood by many and
manipulated