Shakuntala: The Woman Wronged - Softcover

The story of Shakuntala is well known - her upbringing in the ashram, her meeting with Dushyant, their marriage and subsequent separation due to a curse and their final joyous reunion. What is not so well known, however, is that the gentle, lovelorn Shakuntala immortalized by Kalidasa is very different from the original Shakuntala of the Mahabharata, a strong, fiery women who stood up for her rights when she was spurned by her beloved.

Utkarsh Patel is a corporate-professional-turned-mythologist and now an author. He is a professor of Comparative Mythology at the Mumbai University and has qualifications in Indian and World Mythology.