KARNA

Karnais a tragic hero in theMahabharata.He is the spiritual son of the Sun God and the unmarried teenageKunti, who later becamethe Pandava queen.Karna grows up to be an accomplished warrior of extraordinary abilities, a gifted speaker and becomes a loyal friend ofDuryodhana.He aims to killArjunabut dies in the Kurukshetra war.Much later he discovers that he is the older half-brother of those he is fighting against.