

At the end of the book the four women make their choice and it’s kind of a spoiler but Draupadi and Kunti decide to stay back.” “Then they’re given a choice whether they want to stay - and it’s a hard choice because going back to heaven means they get to be in heaven but staying on earth means they have to join the cycle of rebirth. “In the first book, Draupadi and three other women from the Mahabharata - Kunti, Gandhari and Amba - she used to be Shikhandi - come down to Delhi and they have a sort of second chance at life and there is a lot of comedy and adventure and some romance as well. Trisha gave us a bit of background into the new novel, for those who haven’t read the earlier book. She tells City Times in a Zoom interview how the character of Draupadi (who is jointly married to the five Pandavas) had always intrigued her and how The Misters Kuru is meant to be not so much a sequel but the second part of her 2016 novel Ms Draupadi Kuru: After The Pandavas.
