Anand Neelakantan is a popular author from India. He is especially famous for retelling the ancient Indian literature from the vanquished’s perspective. The historians and bards are accused of representing the story from the winner’s perspective. That is found correct to some extent. No one knows the absolute truth. And, everyone has his/her own truth. That is the plural liberal ... Read More »
I got a chance to grab and read Ravana’s Sister (Meenakshi) recently, as a book promotion was running. It is a very short EBook (just 14 pages) which you can read within half an hour. The question is, whether you should read it? If you love to explore Indian Mythology, recently it started flowing books in the zone. As Anand ... Read More »
Anand Neelakantan is famous for visiting the popular mythological stuff from the other party’s perspective. Ramayana is written as Lord Rama’s story by sage Valmiki and carried forward in the same manner. Anand found that there are people in southern part of India who consider Ravana a diety. He even found a village where people worship Duryodhana, whom a majority ... Read More »
We know a lot of Lord Rama and his family through various versions of Ramayana. The most famous (and considered authentic) two versions of Ramayana are (1) Ancient Valmiki Ramayana and (2)Saint Tulsidas’ Ramayana. Lord Rama (aka Ram) is an ideal human being and his character is dignified and glorified as “Maryada Purushottama”. There are many Film/TV Series adaptations were ... Read More »
Everyone have his/her own perspective when looking at any event or thing. It is the well known fact that different people have different version of the same incident they all are associated with altogether. And, winners always write the history. That’s why only positive sides of the winners are explored more. And wit the passing time the salt and pepper ... Read More »