Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : January 2022
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780143334187
- Imprint : Puffin Books
- Age Group : Young Reader
- Language : English
‘I am the rakshasa Ghatotkacha, born of the Lord Bhimasena and the lady Hidimba. I rule over hill and vale, wood a ...
‘I am the rakshasa Ghatotkacha, born of the Lord Bhimasena and the lady Hidimba. I rule over hill and vale, wood and stream, protecting the spirit of the forest and all who live in it.’
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.
Namita Gokhale was born in 1956. She is the author of four
novels-Paro: Dreams of Passion; Gods, Graves and Grandmother;
A Himalayan Love Story; and The Book of Shadows-and two
books of non-fiction-Mountain Echoes and The Book of Shiva.
Namita Gokhale lives in New Delhi.
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