Victim of Destiny

About the Book

Though Karna allied himself with the unrighteous Kauravas, he is never considered to be as evil as Duryodhana and Sakuni. He was very popular among the masses and, even today, people admire him for his generosity. In this book, the author discusses the forces and factors which caused Karna to become allied with Duryodhana and fight for the downfall of the Pandavas. In his struggles against a relentless fate, he became a marionette pulled by the unyielding strings of destiny. As the author points out, fates have cast a good warrior to play convincingly the role of an unrighteous man.

About the Author

The author is an independent scholar. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from Temple. After almost forty years of teaching in a number of countries, he has retired and is now busy with his writing. His field of interest is the Mahabharata, and he has been doing research on this epic for the last twenty-five years. Dr. Rajan has published three books in the series Topics on the Mahabharata. This is the fourth book. He and his wife live in Philadelphia.