![]() ![]() On advice from Sage Vasishta, King Dilip then performs a penance and his curse is broken. The first story in Sudha Murty's brilliantly written The Upside Down King begins as just another story, about a king named Khatwanga, a powerful ruler who belonged to the solar dynasty and who could not have children because of a curse from the gods. ![]() ![]() ![]() They stun and grip us with their power and offer us narrative surprises and enchantments in true epic style. And mysteriously, they tie back to the mainstream stories that we so love. These are tales we never knew existed, lost to time and tide. In her latest book The Upside Down King, master storyteller Sudha Murty regales us with the untold and lesser-known tales of Rama and Krishna. ![]()
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