@Sabhyata, I agree...Govind and Panchali are both awesome in AC and that's why I enjoy reading this series. The other characters are mostly grey- even Ved Vyas has grey painted all over him. In fact, after reading AC, I wonder if Ved Vyas purposely made Yudi the protagonist in his epic to cover for his follies- if any thing in AC is even remotely true. Krishna Udayasankar says she has researched the story thoroughly so I wonder if some of the stuff she's implied could actually have a basis...we will never knowBut I agree, unlike POI, where Karna angle had no basis, the Goli angle in AC is definitely a possibility...and I don't mind it at all as even other books like Yajnaseni and Krishna: The God who lived like man have hinted at that angle