मराठी मनांवर शिवरायांचं आणि त्यांच्या दख्खनच्या भूमीचं मोठं गारुड आहे. इस्लामी राजवटीखाली पिचलेल्या मराठी मनगटांना बळ देणाऱ्या मराठ्यांचा पराक्रम याच मातीत उगवला, रुजला आणि बहरला. जी हजारोंच्या फौजांना जिंकता आली नाही, भल्याभल्या सेनानींचे भाले जिच्या समोर बोथट झाले. ती जमीन वर्षोनुवर्षे अशीच आहे का? शिवरायांच्या आधी तिथं कुणीकुणी राज्य केली?

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude. He countered that he saw divinity in both gods and humans, and that nudity was the purest form he knew. This is the story of a little boy who grew up making charcoal sketches on freshly whitewashed temple walls and went on to be titled in the court of Thiruvananthapuram as 'Raja' for his artistic pr...