The Curse of the Dandakaranya by Devyanshu R Pachouri

About the book

The Curse of the Dandakranya is set in Prayvarsha, layman translation to ‘Peninsular Land’ (wink, wink). The country is in tumult, facing an unprecedented calamity that seems to have appeared out of nowhere, which forces them to stay shut in fear and trepidation and steals their loved ones with disgusting haught. The Forest grows unabated, uncaring of how many innocent lives are lost in its grasp. It is a story about parents, of friends, of demons and monsters. It is a story about a girl’s fight against her fate, and memories that plague her still. It is about the will of men in despairing times, of fights against destinies. Of a friendship that proves thicker than blood. A book rife with twists and turns, it hopes to be a journey that takes you on a mysterious ride through the dark and dusty corridors of a world in peril.

About the author

8 billion people, 8 billion stories. But this particular story is of a regular school-going teen who had to drop out of studies due to an eye disease he still can’t spell the name of (something about swollen retinas). The only treatment for this condition were ‘roids. Did you know that corticosteroids can make you insane? Devyanshu didn’t know too, poor guy. Steroid-induced psychosis, search it up. Mr. Author had lots of fun thinking he was the messiah of the modern world (don’t worry, that’s just material for another novel). 6, that’s the number of suicide attempts Devyanshu made in the course of four months. Yeah, he didn’t take not being able to pass 12^th lightly. Some called it being bi-polar, some called it mixed anxiety depression. Devyanshu doesn’t care though, he has gotten better. Moreover, he read somewhere shlokas are called such because they were born out of shoka, or sorrow. A sage saw a hansa  being shot down by a hunter’s arrow and let out the First Verse. Well this is what his sorrow produced, and he can’t be more excited to see how the world takes it. This is the product of three years of drafting and re-drafting, of ebbs and waves, and he hope it braves the tests of however many readers he may have.

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