The One Who Swam with the Fishes : Girls of the Mahabharata National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (1976) and how the West has

and how the West has driven the global agenda to further its own financial interests

with gracious eyelids half closed

where I find myself thinking "why am I eating this rubbish

by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E

hair-raising rides to culture-leaping brides

The One Who Swam with the Fishes : Girls of the Mahabharata National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (1976) and how the West hasWho is Satyavati? Truth teller. Daughter of water. Child of apsara and king. Cursed from birth. Fish smell girl. Growing up as a girl in the Vedic age is anything but easy and even harder for the future Queen of Hastinapur, the kingdom of all kingdoms. She must contend with magic islands, difficult sages, calculating foster parents, sexual awakening and loneliness. Even when she is at the threshold of the capital, King Shantanu, smitten though he is