The Great Indian Novel

This book was read by me 2 months ago, during the semester breaks, but the book was tremendously vague and incomprehensible for me to write a review on it. But lately I came across another piece of writing by the same author, who was recently inked with allegations for using MEA website for promoting his books, and learnt the real implications of this book.
The author wrote this book inspired from a number of authors who have rewritten literary works by some brilliant and eminent authors of all times with a tremendously different perception. The famous example is Gone with the wind written by Margaret Mitchell which was rewritten by Alice Randall as Wind done Gone where the latter narrates the same story from the slave’s point of view.
The Great Indian Novel has been written with a similar intention that manifests The Mahabharata as the story of India, specifically contemporary. The characters of the great epic have been remoulded into our famous freedom fighters. The writer narrates the pre-independent incidents expressing them in the Mahabharata way. The unique factor is the striking resemblance with the freedom fighters, their traits and the incidents they were a part of. Or may be it’s just the writer who has successfully made us believe that way.
The book unfurls Mahabharata right from the beginning, i.e. from Ved vyas and unfolds through a series of incidents like the entry of Bheeshm Pitamah( Gandhi) and the terrible vow he takes, and finally nears the end with the Kurukshetra…
If you ever chance to read this book, then you will appreciate the humours that have been cracked from time to time. A detailed piece of art that goes transcends all conventional writing barriers.
Let alone the fidgety narration of incidents, this book is a pack of entertainment if you search for the joy in it.