Professor Nayak’s new book Evil in the Mahabharata offers a compelling reinterpretation of the epic that presents a nuanced analysis of the characters, away from the dominant noise of the grand narrative.

Meena Arora Nayak is the author of the monograph Evil in the Mahabharata; novels Endless Rain, About Daddy, and In the Aftermath; and a children’s book, The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives.  Her short stories are in anthologies The City of Sin and Splendour and Enhanced Gravity, and her forthcoming book is The Blue Lotus, Myths and Folktales of India.  She has a PhD in Philosophy with a focus on Hindu mythology and an MFA in Creative Writing.  She is a professor of English at Northern Virginian Community College.