The Courtesan and The Saint
The Courtesan and The Saint is a collection of dramatic poems, weaving together the stories of Dushyant, Shakuntala, Draupadi, the Brahmin, the Courtesan, the Saint, and the forces of Change and God. This book hints at what our future might hold, spun from the threads of our past, and crafting the fabric of what is yet to come. The title is based on an extraordinary encounter between Mohini and Tulsidas, framed within the archetypes of the universal Woman and Man as Yama and Yami—the Heavenly Lawgiver and the Womb of the Earth, embodying the mystery of existence. This collection mirrors the fractured echoes of time, from ‘Dushyant’ and ‘Shakuntala’ to ‘Draupadi’ and ‘The Spirit of The Machines.’ Though time flows and shifts, the mirror remains constant, reflecting the unchanging truth. In the ancient court of Hastinapur, where kings and sages once weighed the fate of empires, a new assembly gathers. The ‘Sutradhar,’ the eternal storyteller, weaves threads of the past and present, where
