Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra

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  • Why Mona Lisa and Mohenjo-daro’s Dancing Girl Still Own the Room

    The author compares Mohenjo-daro’s Dancing Girl and Leonardo’s Mona Lisa as small yet powerful portraits of female autonomy. Rejecting stereotypes of submissive historical women, both figures project individuality, confidence, and indifference toward viewers. Their enigmatic presence transcends size, status, and era, inviting reflection on art’s ability to command attention without seeking approval.

  • Review of Dhruvadevi by Swapna Peri, Storizen Magazine

    In the Gupta court of 377 CE, the sharpest mind in the room belonged to a queen, and Storizen Magazine noticed 🔥 📰 Storizen Magazine, October 2026 issue. Here is what the review says: “Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra’s Dhruvadevi: The Queen Who Made Chandragupta is a debut historical thriller set in the Gupta Empire around 377…

  • From Vinayaka to Ganesha: The Making of a God

    Last weekend I was involved in the Kumbhabhishekam, the installation of Ganesha, in the ancient village of Vishwanathpuri, near the city of Karur in Tamil Nadu. The ‘Lord of New Beginnings’, I hoped, would bring a fresh start for a sleepy village, notorious for police raids for illicit country liquor. For most of the villagers,…

  • 56-Inch Chests, Jugaad Shipping, and a Signed Hardcover, Inside the Chaos of My Book Launch

    When a child leaves a parent’s home, the parent feels heartbroken and happy at the same time. That was how I felt when I accidentally stumbled upon my novel in Crossword last week. Dhruvadevi had begun her own journey now to find her readers, her own place in the world of books. The most moving…

  • My Journey From a Conference Room to a War Camp: How Speed Beats Scale

    The ‘Napoleon of ancient India’, Samudragupta, attempted to immortalise himself on the pillar at Prayaga, celebrating his innumerable victories, boasting about his superiority to one and all. But he does not claim victory over the the Western Sakas/Kshtrapas, who ruled western India.  The story becomes more interesting when we look at his son, Chandragupta Vikramaditya,…

  • The Spy Who Taught Me to Write. And Interpret History. 

    Why I dedicated my novel to my late father

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Season’s Greetings 💛✨ 377 CE. The Gupta Empire stands at its zenith, yet a single succession decision threatens to unravel everything Samudragupta built. His heir, Ramagupta, has inherited the throne of Magadha but none of his father’s genius for war or statecraft. His marriage to the Licchavi princess Dhruvadevi secures a vital alliance, but it cannot shield the empire from the dangers closing in on every side. If you loved the patient, razor-sharp court politics of Wolf Hall and the fierce, reclaimed woman’s voice of Circe, there is a story from the Gupta era that brings both together in a setting very few novels have explored. Dhruvadevi: The Queen Who Made Chandragupta follows a betrayed queen who turns humiliation into strategy and builds the uprising that helps set the Golden Age in motion. In 1989, I walked into the Delhi museum as a teenager expecting a life-sized Dancing Girl, and found a bronze only four inches tall who still seemed to own the entire room. 3 different eras. 3 unforgettable minds. 1 rare kind of courage. 3 different eras. 3 unforgettable women. 1 rare kind of courage. Her husband, the king, agreed to hand her to an enemy ruler to save himself, and history barely remembers what she did next. First Review! A Temple, a Village and the Fierce Ancestor of Ganesha