Overview: Kotru-Zutshi. Karna

Title: Karna The Unsung Hero of the Mahabharata
Author: Umesh Kotru and Ashutosh Zutshi
Year: 2015

Comments: This is a novelistic retelling of the Mahabharata focused on the hero Karna, secret brother to the Pandavas.

Kindle: You can buy your own Kindle copy from Amazon for $3.99 (checked price January 2019); more about Kindles.

Length: three weeks. I've divided the reading into six parts: Part A - Part B (one week of reading), then Part C - Part D (another week of reading), and then Part E - Part F (third week of reading).

Reading Part A

Prologue

Chapter-1: Birth of Karna

Chapter-2: Kunti’s Dilemma

Chapter-3: The Castaway

Reading Part B

Chapter-4: Early Life
Chapter-5: The Hero Emerges

Chapter-6: Quest for Excellence

Chapter-7: The Outpouring of Inner Conflict

Reading Part C

Chapter-8: The Svayamvara

Chapter-9: The Game of Dice

Chapter-10: Arjuna seeks Divine Weapons
Chapter-11: Association with Evil

Reading Part D

Chapter-12: Daanaveera

Chapter-13: The Great Sacrifice

Chapter-14: War Becomes Inevitable

Chapter-15: The Revelation

Reading Part E

Chapter-16: A Mother Reveals her Secret
Chapter-17: Focus Shifts to Kurukshetra

Chapter-18: Bhishma Finally Blesses Karna

Chapter-19: Inner Turmoil Resolved

Reading Part F

Chapter-20: Scorching the Battlefield
Chapter-21: Karna in Command

Chapter-22: The Curtain Falls Epilogue