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Acknowledgements My mother, who long ago told me the story of how Vyasa described Krishna to his son, Shuka, who was running away to heaven Pradeep Chakravarthy, who helped me appreciate Alwar culture during our temple tour of Srirangam Bhushan Korgaonkar, who helped me get information on Pendya, one of the characters related to Krishna’s childhood in Marathi Bhagavata lore Prateek Pattanaik, a young student, who gave me information about rare folk poetry related to Radha and Jagannatha in Odia Bhagavata culture Kapil Motwani, in whose house I first saw the unique Mahanubhav shrine dedicated to Krishna Parag Pradhan with whom I travelled to Vrindavana and Mathura Partho Sengupta with whom I travelled to Puri, Odisha Harpreet, and his family, who read the early drafts and helped me smoothen the narrative Hiran, my housekeeper, who helped me scan the illustrations Dhaivat, whose magic with layouting of text and images always amazes me Meru, Shatarupa and the team at Penguin who are patient with me Mita and her team at Siyahi who provide valuable support to my work

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