Summary:
This excerpt from Chapter 15 of the book Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, a conversation between Raavan and his first love Vedavati, portrays a totally different picture of one of the greatest villains of Indian mythology. It presents Raavan as a man with emotions, feelings and most importantly, it shows a man with empathy. With his third book in the Ram Chandra Series, author Amish Tripathi, the posterboy of Indian mythological fiction, has challenged the modern notion of Raavan. It wasn’t the same way that Raavan was portrayed in the ancient versions of the Ramayan. We (my illustration team and I) wanted to challenge the fundamental assumption about Raavan that he is just a monstrous, violent man..