The Tunnel of Varanvrat  (English, Paperback, Chikermane Gautam)

Every time a book is written about an unsung hero from an epic, it grabs my attention. We have all read that the Kauravas gifted the Pandavas a Lakshagriha or Purochan’s Palace made of Lac (laquer), a highly combustible substance and set the palace on fire, but the Pandavas escaped through a tunnel under the palace. Now who helped them, never came to my mind. Why? Because, we were taught that, God always takes care of the righteous people.

The book has been written in first person from the p...

The book gives us an excellent account of the insignificant, not much known to the world, fictitious miner and an ex soldier of the Puru empire who in his crusade to save the mighty Pandavas building a tunnel. All the readers know about the escape plans and how it happened but the builder of the tunnel was always a mystery. This mysterious unknown character is the protagonist of this particular episode of the epic and reveals to us the double side edges of the Dharm, how less known people who...