The Mahabharata Code

The Mahabharata Code is a personal account of the main protagonist, Narayan Rao (NR), who claims to be an astronomer with NASA. NR and a few other crew members agree to take part in the NASA mission to visit a mystery planet from which they had received mysterious signals. Here, they meet a man with a long flowing white beard, who introduces himself as Vyasa. He reveals that he has a crazy plan in mind and seeks NR and his members' help in implementing this plan. Vyasa intends to recreate the entire Mahabharata on this planet to restore the faith of the primitive simpletons living there.

As the Mahabharata incidents start unfolding, NR realises that Vyasa intends to recreate them page by page, if not paragraph by paragraph. NR also begins to realise that his son, Krishna, who is being groomed by Vyasa as Vishnu's avatar, is nothing more than a pawn in Vyasa's scheme. Other incidents of the Mahabharata also unfold according to the original epic. The Pandavas and Kauravas grow up hating each other, and the restaging plan culminates with both the warring sets of cousins facing each other on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

Inexplicably, like the original epic, Arjuna develops cold feet seeing his own cousins, teachers, and relatives on the opposite side. He seeks Krishna's divine intervention. Is the brainwashed "alien" Krishna prepared for this intervention?