Or even been touched against her will. Countless innocent women - as innocent as I am - will be shunned and punished because of your act. Is that dharma? Is that what you want? One almost misses the elegiac sadness and grace of Draupadi when she realises as Volume 8 Issue 2 www. But it certainly is the tale of, by and for the marginalised, the downtrodden, the banished, the ostracised and the disregarded, who have been living their lives in the fringes of our grand mythological narrative arc.
The story is simplistically narrated through flashbacks by the protagonist, Sita, and there are no biases or prejudices is her interpretation of episodes or characters. She is equally smitten by the magnanimous Ram and awed by the charismatic Ravana.
The language is very plain and repetitive at many places. Thus a certain banality seeps into the narrative time to time.
The narration sometimes seems overbearing or hackneyed, especially the conversations between Ram and Sita as husband and wife or the courtroom scenes. There is over emphasis on the idea and ideals of love, which makes it very stereotypical at the end of it all. In certain places it tends to become a bit melodramatic as well. The pace is neither fast nor slow, though it gets boring and the reader may feel like it is trudging along the difficult terrain of the forests or the mountain slopes.
But some of the sub plots are brilliant and bring out the essence of the characters beautifully. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:.
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Oleander Girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The creative energy that would in time produce A Cycle of the West and Black Elk Speaks is apparent in his first book, The Divine Enchantment, published in when he was nineteen years old.
It can be viewed as an early version of the philosophy of spiritual awareness that Neihardt articulated twenty-five years later in Poetic Values. They are reprinted together for the first time in this Landmark Edition. A narrative poem bursting with youthful enthusiasm, The Divine Enchantment reveals Neihardt not as an ordinary poet but as a visionary bard.
Inspired by his reading of Eastern philosophy, it is a Hindu myth with Christian parallels. The virgin heroine, Devanaguy, fulfills prophecy in bearing Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu, in spite of imprisonment by a jealous and fearful king. The main characters of Calling on Dragons novel are John, Emma. One of the Best Works of Patricia C. Please note that the characters, names or techniques listed in Calling on Dragons is a work of fiction and is meant for entertainment purposes only, except for biography and other cases.
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