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We hold this intimacy throughout the book as we follow the young boy, who grows into a worthy (if tormented) prince and eventually, into an emperor who transforms the geographical and spiritual ...

The difficult question to answer is whether a work is under more pressure or less when it draws heavily from very popular source material. Does that popularity give it an advantage, at least in terms ...

How did the process of writing Asoca: A Sutra transform you? Writing a historical novel issues you a kind of visa to that distant country, the past. I came to inhabit that country for long periods of ...

In its plot outline, Emperor Ashoka’s life resembles that of many modern Indians. He grew up with parental pressures to join the family business, got married off to a person who wasn’t necessarily his ...

I’m lying spreadeagled on a rock, naked in the sun. It’s a broad flat rock with a smooth face that extends beyond my extremities. My knees shine. Susima and Prayagraj and Uday are paddling in the ...

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) Irwin Allan Sealy's "Asoca", an imagined memoir of Ashoka The Great, the emperor who ruled most of the Indian subcontinent and played a pivotal role in the spread of Buddhism ...