Asura – Review and Reflections

You have heard Ramayana at one point or other in your lives however young you are. The tale is often the same in spite of minor variations – Prince Ram of Ayodhya is the hero and ‘Lankeshwara’ Raavan is the villain. Simple as that – black and white. What if it wasn’t so? What if there was some grey? Even more what if the black was white and the white was black? What if Raavanan – for it is the right way to say – is the hero of the story? What if ‘Rama’yana is ‘Raavana’yana?  What if Raavana was the tragic hero?

Asura – The Story of the Oppressed

Well, that is the book that we are going to see today – ASURA by Anand Neelakantan (Know more about him here). Here, Raavana is the hero. He is the champion of his people – the