Goodreads asked Jagmohan S. Bhanver:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jagmohan S. Bhanver I guess I will talk about how I decided to write the Krishna Trilogy since that might be more interesting for most people here rather than my non fiction stuff.
I started the research as soon as I got out of HSBC – my last job in the banking sector. This was in 2004. Part of the research focused on meeting and talking with people who are associated with the Hare Krishna movement. Another aspect of the research took me to places I had never thought I would travel to. This included historical places where Krishna or other characters that are part of Krishna’s story have stayed sometime in the past, thousands of years ago. This was followed by painstakingly researching old documents and papers (including ancient texts) that could tell me something new about Krishna that hopefully majority of the world would be unaware of.
The most critical aspect of the research however related to finding more about Krishna himself. Most of the information available on Krishna related to his role in the Mahabharata. But the latter talks more about the Kauravas and the Pandavas and in the Great War’s narration, Krishna has never been the player to occupy maximum space, even though he is a central character there. My objective therefore was to try and tell the story of Krishna from Krishna’s point of view; not with him as ‘one of the several other’ characters in some other story. Therefore, each book in the Krishna trilogy brings out aspects that to the majority of people would be fresh and new information. The first volume (The Curse of Brahma) for instance narrates the events that led up to Krishna’s birth. And this is not the story that we have grown up listening to, but an entirely different set of events. The second volume (The Rise of the Yadavas) covers the period of Krishna’s life that has seldom been talked about – his initiation into the art of war and the role played by both his teachers – Muni Sandipani and Angirasa – in shaping Krishna’s destiny. Sandipani’s life itself is a story in itself and will enchant readers of mythological fiction. The third and final volume (The Drums of Kurukshetra) tells the story of the Great War – Mahabharata – in an entirely different manner and I hope it will leave the readers with a very different perspective on the mortal warrior that came to be known as the God of Gods – Krishna!

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