This story was not written to retell an epic.
It was written to question it.
The Mahabharata has always been about war, duty, and destiny — but between its verses live silences that history accepted too easily. This book was born from those silences. From the women who endured, the men who stayed quiet, and the belief that righteousness is not proven by victory, but by restraint.
Aradhya is not meant to replace anyone in the epic.
She exists to ask what might have changed if memory, trauma, and choice had been given space to speak.
Some moments in this book may feel uncomfortable. They were meant to.
Because healing does not come from glorifying suffering — it comes from acknowledging it.
If this story made you pause, feel anger, or question long-held ideas, then it has done what it was written to do.
And if you saw yourself somewhere in these pages — in survival, in fury, in forgiveness — know this:
You are not weak for remembering.
You are powerful for choosing what comes next.
Thank you for walking this journey with me.
— The Author
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