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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Animish belongs to the ashram of a mysterious Master in the forest of Naimisha whose antecedents, ideologies, and even name are shrouded in secrecy. When he visits the city of Mathura, along with his friend Asareer, he hears a voice from the skies warning the antagonist, Kamsa, that his nemesis would be born to his dear sister Devaki who was just married to the Yadava prince, Vasudeva. The mysterious voice claims itself as 'Akashvani', the celestial voice that can see the events of the past, the present, and the future. While everybody believes the foreboding, Animish is the only one to think he knows the truth. Set in the period B.K. 10, a decade before Krishna was born, this sets Animish in the lifelong quest of following Shri Krishna and the truth. The story of Animish runs parallel to the story of Shri Krishna and Pandavas and Kauravas.
Sesha
Sesha is a first-time author who ventured to publish this work at an age most writers might call it a day. The task took him about five years to complete, post his retirement from a nationalized bank. Though the idea for the story germinated and fermented in his brain a few years earlier. Epics, and more so, Mahabharata, has always intrigued him since childhood, and it made him read those stories again and again. His desire to retell the story of Shri Krishna, who is the central character in the two great epics, in his own way led to his first book. His own way meant introducing fictional characters who were contemporaries of real characters, watching the key events unfold. The real characters also slightly deviate from their original sketch, within the liberty of literary imagination. This book is neither authentic mythology nor complete fiction and hence may be reckoned as mythological fiction. The author plans to release the next part shortly, not intending to leave the fictional characters midway.
His children married and settled, he and his wife reside in Hyderabad, and enjoy traveling and spending time with grandchildren Shrinika, Rishika, Rohit and Samyukta.
