I learnt to love like a man-to love without feelings. And I shall never forget this lesson.' Matsyagandha, Daseyi, Yojanagandha - the queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a rishi, she hardens herself, determined that the next time she is with a man, she will be the one to win. And win she does: the throne of Hastinapur for herself, and the promise that her sons will be heirs to the kingdom. But at what cost? In a palace where she is disdained and scorned, Satyavati must set aside her own loss and pain if she is to play the game of politics. She learns to be ruthless, unscrupulous - traits that estrange her from everyone around. Everyone, except the man she cheated of his birthright. A piercing, insightful look at the grand matriarch of the Kuru family, the woman who set off the sequence of events that ended in the bloody battle of Kurukshetra, The Fisher Queen's Dynasty will re-align your reading of the Mahabharata.

A senior journalist with a career of over two decades, Kavita Kané is a full time author of the best-sellers Karna's Wife, Sita's Sister, Menaka's Choice , Lanka's Princess ; all of them on marginalised characters whom she finds especially fascinating.
Besides writing - which is the only métier she knows- she is passionate about cinema and theatre. Born in Mumbai, a childhood spent largely in Patna and Delhi , she happily settled in Pune with her mariner husband, two teenaged daughters and Chic the spaniel and Cotton the curious cat.