Young Chintamani Dev Gupta, on holiday in a bird camp near Lake Sattal, is transported via a wormhole to the days of the Mahabharata. Trapped in time, he meets Ghatotkacha and his mother, the demoness Hidimba. But the gentle giant, a master of illusion and mind-boggling rakshasa technology, wields his strength just as well as he knows the age-old secrets of the forest and the elemental forces. And in his enlightening company, Chintamani finds himself in the thick of the events of the most enduring Indian epic. An intense yet tender look at a rare friendship as well as the abiding puzzles of the past, this is a fascinating read.
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Namita Gokhale is the author of twenty-three books including twelve works of fiction, and editor of numerous anthologies. Treasures of Lakshmi is the third book in the Goddess trilogy that she has co-edited with Malashri Lal. Gokhale's celebrated debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published in 1984. Her recent works of fiction include Jaipur Journals and The Blind Matriarch. Gokhale is co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2021, the First centenary National Award for Literature in 2017, the Nilimarani Sahitya Samman, 2023, and numerous other awards.