Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara, Mandodari - each of the Pancha Kanyas is fascinating ... Koral Dasgupta's wonderful retelling adds to this corpus with a lyrical and poetic quality' BIBEK DEBROY 'A must for those wishing to know about our past and the dialectics of gender within it' PAVAN K. VARMA 'Magical and thought-provoking' CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI 'Enigmatic' NAMITA GOKHALE In the Sati series, Koral Dasgupta explores the lives of the Pancha Kanyas from the Hindu epics and reinvents them with a feminist consciousness.