Ashutosh Nadkar

Ashutosh Nadkar, who comes from Madhya Pradesh, spent two decades in Indian print, television and web journalism, and is an associate editor with the Network18 group. Shakuni: Master of the Game (Juggernaut, 2019) retells the Mahabharata from the side of its schemer. Outmatched by the Kuru dynasty, Gandhara must hand its princess to the blind king Dhritarashtra, and her brother Shakuni answers that humiliation by working the Kauravas and Pandavas as pieces in a long game that ends with the Kuru house in ruins.