About the BookDuryodhan believes that the Kuru kingdom belongs to the Kauravas. He will not give away even an inch of that ancestral land without a fight. How can he? The Pandavas are not even the real sons of Maharaj Pandu, they are not true heirs of the Kurus.Krishna helped them, and the Pandavas won the war, a hollow victory. They lost as much as those they vanquished did. As the other side tells the story of the war-Duryodhan, Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Dushasan, Shakuni and others who were thus far pushed to the margins of the epic-Vidhate turns on its head the greatest tale ever, to tell a story of monstrous jealousy and devouring greed. Everyone had blood on their hands. There were no winners even as one side wrested a gruesome victory-and Duryodhan knew it right from the start.About the AuthorKaka Vidhate has published many bestselling Marathi novels: Rakkasa (1991), the story of a dancing girl called Azijaan and her sacrifice in the 1857 mutiny for independence under Nanasaheb Peshwa; Paradh (1993), the love story of Raja Ramchandradev of Khurda and Razia, the daughter of Murshid Quli Khan, the Subedar of Bihar and Orissa; Daryadil Dara Shikoh (2003), a fictionalised biography of Shah Jahan's eldest son; Bhargav (2004), the story of the first Hindu king, Hemchandra, who fought against Akbar in the second battle of Panipat; Dev Yoddha, a three-part biography of Bajirao Peshwa I; and Santaji (2011), about Santaji Ghorpade, a valorous sardar in the Maratha army. Duryodhan was published in 1994 to critical acclaim and has gone into multiple reprints.
