Ravan – The King Of Rakshasas

This is a gripping and superbly articulated book about Ravana. A compelling narrative that gives a lot of insights into the rakshasa king’s demeanor. Though there’s nothing much to tell about this epic character still author delivered a well-researched, beautifully crafted book on the most glorious and most respected villain of Indian classical literature.

Do you like villains or indulge yourself in hero fandom? Dark characters always have some mystic approach on me. Always feel like need to know more about our vile characters of mythology. I am always in search of this I picked this book as my first book of February. I was reading a mammoth classic but took a break to read this book about King of Lanka.

I think Ravana is the most decorated villain among all characters in the Indian epic. He was a demon and on the other side, he was a scholar, author, great musician, the wisest and widely educated person that anyone would ever know. He was the greatest devotee of all time. It is heard that he has written many books in various streams including Ayurveda. He had reached the pinnacle of his life.

His character has a different kind of exuberance before being the king of Rakshasa which was perfectly inscribed in this book and it deeply moved me. Author gave his character more flesh and blood in this book.

In this book, with the touch of the author’s pen, Ravana became alive, the feeling whilst reading touched me. The narrative of this book is from the Point of view of the Ravana himself. It started with his childhood and ended as well with his life.

The author has given deeply focused on a part of Ravana’s life, his adolescence years, his childhood which was never been in limelight. Every character from Ravana’s childhood was blooming here.

This book shows how painstaking research the author did for his book. We can get deep information about all the relevant characters which we have never known before. Here author elaborates on Ravan’s lineage, his family tree. Each and every character blooming here with their all shades, everyone is here is grey.

After reading this plethora of emotions crossing my mind. Ravana’s life started with how to maintain dignity, trying not to think about the fear, embarrassment of his fate, and I loved how author engraved it with so much compassion.

The rakshasa king, the great scholar, the great powerful Ravan, how was his childhood one can never be imagined. How little by little he became what he became at the end of epic Ramayana unfolded here. I would suggest how to step by step his character built is a must-know thing.

I love how the author maintained the flow and never let loose the grip of the flow, it’s a page-turner, strikingly thought-provoking. To know more about Ravana you must read this book.

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