What: Jaya: An illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik, available at leading bookstores, Rs 499.

Why: Raise a boast to this illustrated version of the Mahabharata, studded with interesting pearls – the epic’s original title, names of all 100 Kauravas, actual dates of the war. Spread over 108 chapters are also lesser-known stories of men and women, men who made women and men who became women.

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