Good story. Not-so-good story-telling.Allowing for the usual liberties storytellers take in bending truths, this is one story that started losing its charm midway. What starts off as a truly real and "human" vantage of a god's tale slips into a bunch of excuses the once-mighty old king makes, app...
The story of the Ramayana has been innumerable times. The story of "Asura" held a lot of promise to narrate it from Ravana's perspective but fails in execution. I particularly liked about the book was the portrayal of Asuras and Devas as not Gods and demons but two contemporary civilizations figh...
Before I read this book, Rama was a hero and Ravana, a villain in my mind. This book written from the Asura perspective, portrays Rama and Ravana both as heros, forced by circumstances to be villains. The plot is from Ramayana and it's various versions that tells a lot many stories about the main...
Had a very interesting opening!! but it dint last long, then the narration in itself might make you feel that you are jumping from scene to scene, the flow was a major let down. Between, as you get restless and rush pages with intention to get done with it, towards the end it gets better and when...
Many authors have tried to make "heroes" out of "villains". Dhuryodhana was called "Suyodhana" for instance. But this book is far from being an epic for reasons like it lacks depth when it talks about "Ravana". As a subject matter of "Ravana" the author has failed to produce any references and ha...
Ajaya is a book, which shows Suyodhana (popularly known as Duryodhana) as a compassionate and righteous hero and Pandavas and Lord Krishna in a negative shade. According to this book what Krishna and Hindu Scriptures called 'Dharma' is nothing but upholding the caste system ruthlessly and the mea...