AUTHOR INTERVIEW # KRISHNA UDAYASANKAR
Can you briefly introduce yourself My name is Krishna Udayasankar and I am the author of The Aryavarta Chronicles (Govinda, Kaurava, Kurukshetra), Immortal, 3, Beast, Objects of Affection and now, The Cowherd Prince. What are your hobbies? Haha, I don’t think I have any hobbies, anymore ☺ What did you do in lockdown? The lockdown was a very strange time for me. I had very recently relocated back to India with my family after spending nearly two decades living overseas. The pandemic brought to the fore so many bigger issues for a host of people, that it really made me get my priorities a little straighter. What made you write this book? I had thought of writing The Cowherd Prince soon after I finished Kurukshetra, the third book of The Aryavarta Chronicles. In fact, there is a story that the Vyasas – Dwaipayana and Sukadeva – were both so saddened after the Mahabharata had been set down in all its violent glory, they wanted to write something else,...