The Weight Of Dharma: Last Years Madhava

The Last Years of MadhavaThe war is over. The battlefield is silent. And Krishna - Madhava, Vasudeva, the beloved charioteer who spoke the deepest truths of existence into a trembling warrior's ear - must now live with everything that victory cost.For thirty-six years, he watches over Dwaraka, the golden city he built by the sea. He counsels kings. He comforts the grieving. He tries to be a father to sons who can never quite believe he sees them - Pradyumna, burdened by an impossible name; Samba, who mistakes his father's silence for indifference. He carries Gandhari's curse without ever setting it down: that as her hundred sons destroyed each other, so too will his own people.He knows what is coming. He always has. And still he cannot stop it.Prosperity turns to pride. Old wounds fester into wine-soaked rage. The Yadavas - the greatest clan the world has known - begin to consume themselves. Beside him stands Balarama, his brother since before either had names for what they were, watching the same catastrophe and reaching a very different conclusion.The Weight of Dharma is the untold story of a god's last years as a man - a father who could not save his children, a brother who could not hold what he loved together, a king who built an age and watched it end. A novel about the cost of seeing clearly, and the rarer courage of loving anyone anyway, to the final, silent arrow.