An audio book in English, read by Deesh Mariwala.
Indira Parthasarathy calls Krishna a metaphor that 'fulfils all the
dark and lurking desires in our deep Unconscious and represents the
collective vision of the community as a whole'. In his view, Krishna
cannot be judged by the 'moral yardstick' set for others either.
Using the pansophical Narada as the narrator widens the scope of the
novel and helps contemporize its concerns. Beginning with Jara the
hunter shooting an arrow at Krishna's feet in the aftermath of the
Kurukshetra war, the author has Narada telling the story of Krishna as
revealed to Jara by Krishna. Indira Parthasarathy's Krishna is not only
an amalgam of the Harivamsam, Sri Bhagavatam, Vishnu Purana and the
Mahabharata but the vehicle that carries their cultural and aesthetic
themes into a literary discussion of the idea of Krishna.
