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Kanyayug The Unsung Tales in Ramayana

Author Name: Oyindrila Basu | Format: Paperback | Genre : Literature & Fiction | Other Details

She walked into the fire, and the world watched her with loaded eyes. Was she obeying her husband or punishing herself? What was her secret sin?

She was an Asura queen. Her righteousness and devotion protected her sinful husband, but couldn’t protect her virtue. But, did she give up?

She was the young sister of the ‘Devi’ and the wife of the younger Ikshwaku prince, but what was her name?

She is known as the deadliest demoness of all times but, where did she come from?

Who are these women? What did they do? How did they live?

These questions have been doing rounds through generations of oral tradition in Ramayana. But somehow, the various versions and retellings of the great epic have submerged these stories under the sand of cultural idealism. Lord Rama, the Maryadapurushottam, is what the abridged tales intended to establish and consolidate the foregrounds of Indian patriarchy with positivism.

The women have played irreplaceable roles in the formation of the Ramayana, but their stories have always come in as subplots in the grandeur of heroism.

Kanyayug, for the first time, unapologetically unearths the unsung stories of these women. Their plight, their pain, their emotions, their inner battles and deep-hidden secrets come to life through the creative ink of the author.

This unique Literary fiction, while studying the exemplary Women in Ramayana, challenges old myths and reconstructs Devi, Asura, Apsara and Yaksha together, by bringing each one from the epic and unifying them in a single narrative.

 

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Oyindrila Basu

Oyindrila Basu did her Master’s in English Literature from the University of Calcutta, India. She is currently a Teaching Assistant at Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States. Her scholarly paper “Usage of Psychoactive Substances is Spreading like Wild Forest Fire” won the World Academic Championship, 2017, and she was honored as a Fellow by the Directorate of Addiction Research-IASR (Psychiatry and Addiction Research).

Though a research scholar and teacher by profession, her area of interest was always Religious studies, precisely Hindu mythology. After moving to the USA, she got her lifetime opportunity to associate herself with Harvard University where she learned from the experts in religious and cultural literature.

Her first book, Possessed, was internationally published in Germany, which was about religious superstitions associated with mental disorders.

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