Krishna Dharma

Krishna Dharma writes narrative retellings of India’s classical literature. His books take the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Srimad Bhagavatam — works that run to tens of thousands of verses in the original Sanskrit — and tell them as continuous stories in modern English.

The aim is not to summarise or to comment. It is to let a reader who has never opened an Indian epic follow the whole thing: the families, the quarrels, the exile, the war, and the arguments about duty that run underneath all of it.

Alongside the epics he has written retellings of the Panchatantra fables, books on the goddesses of the tradition, and Why Me?, a short book on making sense of suffering. He lives and works in the United Kingdom.