Mandu: The Love Story a Fort Still Remembers

This review highly recommends Malathi Ramachandran’s Mandu: The Romance of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur, a lyrical historical novel about the improbable, artistic bond between a 16th-century Sultan and a shepherdess. The reviewer praises the book for treating the setting of Mandu as a living character and for its poignant exploration of how profound love can be both extraordinary and vulnerable to the forces of history.