The Ballad of Little Krishna

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The BALLAD OF LITTLE KRISHNA is the story of Lord Krishna's childhood tales, adventures and about His divine exploits. The story starts with the birth of Lord Krishna and ends with the death of Kans the incarnate of Demònic clans. The entire book is composed in sweet lyrical ballads.

MYDAVOLU VENKATA SESHA SATHYANARAYANA who writes with the penname 'mahathi' is a postgraduate in law and once a practising lawyer in Nellore and later an officer in Central Industries ministry. He retired from Government service in 2014 'Mahathi' is, considered as one of the finest Indian English poets of modern times, whose poetry is replete with high imagery, clear diction, humour, pun and satire. He is adept with both formal and free verse though most of his later works were composed in formal verse. So far his poetry was published as 6 collections and 4 epic long poems.

A fight between the good Godly forces and bad demonic forces takes place in every yuga or eon. The God programmed the earth in such a way, the earth survives as long as the virtues are upheld and Dharma is followed. Dharma means 'acceptable social behaviour 'which includes legality, morality and amity. But the unmindful demonic spirits from the underworld try to possess the human bodies to quench their carnal and worldly desires. When demonic forces thus take a dominance over the earth, the result is chaos, dwindling of virtues and upraise of sins. That is when the God descends donning an Avatar to save the earth from increasing weight of sins (paapa bharam). A Yadava king by name Kamsa was thus possessed by a demonic spirit by name Kalanemi. His behaviour changes. One day a cosmic voice tells him that the 8th son of his cousin, Devaki would kill him. Kamsa jails his cousin Devaki and Vasudeva, his brother-in-law. He kills six of his cousin's infant sons as soon as they were born. But seventh time, there was a mysterious miscarriage. And as the eighth child, Lord Narayana Himself descends as Lord Sri Krishna Vaasudeva. How the Lord ends up the evil reign of Kamsa and restores Dharma is the story of this book.

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