KARTHIKA SAVARKAR

Sharvi Patwardhan is a seventeen-year-old debut novelist with a deep love for Hindu mythology, philosophy, politics, and history.

Born and raised outside India, she grew up acutely aware of the gap between young Indians and their cultural roots and believes her generation must reclaim and reimagine their heritage with pride and passion.

Every Indian child grows up on the legends of the Ramayana and Mahabharata — until those legends become real. Twelve-year-old Karthika Savarkar is thrust from her ordinary life in Pune into Maya, a hidden world rising from the ruins of India’s forgotten past.

Here, ancient powers stir, alliances form, and a young girl discovers that the myths she was raised on are not just stories.

A gripping, mythology-rich debut from a teenage author who writes with extraordinary conviction and cultural depth.