Every Indian has grown up conditionedto the view that the Pandavas were virruous and wronged; and the Kauravas were manipulative and evil. On avisit to MalandaTemple, Kerala, national bestselling author of ASURA, Anand Neelakantan, discovered the remple deity to be none other than Duryodhanan, the ostensible 'villain' of the Mahabharata. This astonishing discovery prompted him to delve deep into thenarrative of the defeated Crown Prince of Hastinapura, and the Kaurava clan. Ajaya challenges established views and compels us to think again. The book is all about the power of perception. It retells with compelling credibility, the epic events from the epic events from Duryodhan's (given name: Suryodhana), point of view.
         While Jaya is the story of the Pandavas, rold from the perspective of the victors of Kurukshetra; Ajaya is the narrative of the 'unconquerable' Kauravas, who were decimated to the last man. At the heart of India's most powerful empire, a revolution is brewing. In the apocalyptic struggle that follows every rule is broken as kin slaughters kin. Both sides do whatever it rakes to win. But as gods conspire and men's distinies unfold in a shattering denouement, a far greater truth finally prevails over the carnage at Kuruskshetra: When men battle and women weep, there are no victors.