THE SEEDS OF WAR
The book introduces us to the elder protagonists of the epic, as well as some of the great loves and lusts, friendships and enemies, politics and self sacrifice that will lay the seeds that will eventually fester and crupt into the mother of all wars. At first it may seem that the journey is the reward, with seemingly unrelated love stories, fantastical tales of exploits in the heavenly realms, divine pacts and demoniac trysts. But it soon becomes evident that all these form a tapestry revealing the grandeur and glamour of the Kuru Bharata race itself, the growing descendants of the original tribe that established perhaps the greatest and oldest human civilization ever known in recorded history. Their loves and enmitics are epic, their stories astonishing, their personalities mercurial.