Introduction: ‘Should we be loyal to an unjust ruler?’This is the dilemma before the citizens of Magadha . They ask themselves -‘Is it safe to be a fence sitter?’ ‘Is it prudent to emigrate?’‘Is it time to rise in revolt?’No citizen is immune, each must make a choice!Disclaimer:All events, people and some places in this novel are fictitious. Though the novel is set in 5th Century AD , India, the life presented is an amalgamation of different eras and imagination. Infact , much of the understanding of the society at that point of time has been gained from Kautilya’s Arthashastra which was first written seven centuries earlier....