Tales of Fabled Beasts, Gods and Demons

This book is a hugely entertaining collection of stories about the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of the Gods, demons and beasts in the epics .

Meet Kumbhakarna, who can eat 1000 plates of curry in one day, Mahisarura, who is half buffalo and half demon, Tataka who has the strenght of a 1000 elephants, Hanuman who mistake the sun for a tasty ripe fruit.

Sharma is a storyteller par excellence with high drama and humour in her writing.