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Shashi Tharoor’s first work of fiction, The Great Indian Novel, created a sensation on its publication in 1989. Highly acclaimed for its daring endeavour to re-interpret the ancient epic, the Mahabharata, in terms of the 20th century Indian history, this breathtakingly inventive and irreverent novel won two major awards and put its author in the front rank of contemporary Indian writers in English. The book introduces Shashi Tharoor and The Great Indian Novel with an exhaustive commentary on the text by Tapan K. Ghosh. This is followed by two exploratory essays on the novel by eminent scholars..