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Krishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths of our unconscious. He holds an instant appeal for all of us, young and old, transcending caste and gender. Krishna's unconventional behaviour is celebrated with great ecstasy and devotion in Indian art, music, literature and folklore. Krishna cannot be judged by the moral yardstick used for others. To the Indian mind, he cannot but do what he does. His deeds, righteous or not, are never questioned by anyone. In the imagination of the Indian people, he is the fountainhead of eternal energy, pranks and wisdom. This novel portrays him as our contemporary and also as a character who would be relevant in all times to come. Krishna is the most charismatic character in the Harivamsham, Sri Bhagavatam, Vishnupurana and the Mahabharata, yet he is not the hero in any of them. In this novel, he is the hero, the central figure around whom things revolve. The dying Krishna himself narrates his story to Jara, the hunter, who, in turn, chooses Narada, the eternal cosmic traveller who is well-versed in an idiom that is forever contemporary, to tell us in his own way what he has heard from Krishna.

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INDIRA PARTHASARATHY, pseudonym of (Dr) R. Parthasarathy (Padma Shri awardee) (b.1930), is a creative writer, literary and cultural critic and historian who started his career as an academic. Widely acknowledged as one of those who have revolutionized modern Tamil fiction and drama, he has authored sixteen novels, two volumes of short stories, four anthologies of short novels, nine full-length plays, seven one-act plays and one volume of critical essays.He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Kuruthi-p-punal (The River of Blood) in 1977, which has been translated in many major Indian languages, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 2004 - the only Tamil writer so far to have been honoured with both the awards.He was given the Life-Time Achievement award in 2018 at The Hindu Literature for Life event. He was awarded Saraswati Samman by K.K. Birla Foundation for his play Ramanujar in 1999.Dr Parthasarathy was nominated for the Fellowship by the Sahitya Akademi in March 2022.

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