PANCHAALI THE PRINCESS OF PEACE

Author: Saniya Inamdar

Publisher: Evincepub Publishing

Read: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B09B1CBD7H/

Reviewed By: Akhila Saroha

Podcast: Soudia Parveen

#blurb

My voice sounded strange to me, as my decision would sound strange to the others.

“Oh esteemed ones assembled together, I Princess Draupadi with all respect, obey not to marry the five illustrious brothers! I agree to marry Prince Arjuna who won my Swayamwara or I will marry no one! There will be a war but Princess Panchaali will have no part in it!”

The story traces the journey of Draupadi, a woman so fiercely aware of the sanctity of a woman, her womanhood that she refuses the most powerful, the most loved, the most revered to carve her own niche in society. Draupadi in the story refuses war and embraces peace. The story tries to regale a different alternative of Draupadi's life.

Draupadi is also portrayed as an ambassador of peace unlike the vindictive and war mongering Draupadi portrayed in mythology! She seems a princess genuinely concerned about the innocent people of Panchaal as she argues with the acrimonious intents of her father, King Drupad!