Yuganta: The End of an Epoch by Irawati Karve is written on the great Indian Epic Mahabharata. The novel is subjected to a lucid enquiry that places them in perspective, disentangles their hopes and fears, and instills them with wholly human motives, thereby making their stories relevant and astonishing to present-day readers. The author has presented the novel with an enchanting collection of essays, logical in spirit, yet approving of the fictional tradition of the Mahabharata. She confronts the proverbial and formulates refreshingly new interpretations, all the while snubbing to judge insensitively or respect blindly.
