Name: Asura
Rating: 3.071428571428572 (14 reviews)
ISBN: 9788182665477

Anand Neelakantan

En Śrīkumār

Novel based on Rava?a (Hindu mythology) and his people.

Asura

Aboobacker Sidheeq M

രാവണായണം.രാവണന്റെയും രാവണന്റെ ജീവിത നിമ്നോന്നതങ്ങളിൽ കൂടെയും അല്ലാതെയുമുണ്ടായിരുന്ന ഭദ്രൻ എന്ന അലക്കുകാരന്റെയും ജീവിതത്തിലൂടെ കടന്നുപോകുന്ന പുരാണാഖ്യാനം.ശ്രീരാമൻ സരയൂ നദിയിൽ വിലയം പ്രാപിച്ചതിനു ശേഷം ഭദ്രൻ ദൈവത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം നാടായ ദക്ഷിണപശ്ചിമനാട്ടിൽ അവസാനകാലം കഴിച്ചുകൂട്ടുന്നതിലൂടെ ഗ്രന്ഥമവസാനിക്കുന്നു. ഇന്ത്യൻ പുരാണ ഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങൾ വായിക്കാവുന്ന അതേ കൗതുകത്തോടെയും പ്രതീക്ഷയോടെയും വായിക്കാവുന്ന ഗ്രന്ഥം. ജാതീയതയുടെ വിന്യാസവും അസുരരാഷ്ട്രത്തിലെ പുരോഗമന നിലപാടുകളും കുറിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത് ശ്രദ്ധേയമാണ്.

The epic tale of victory and defeat... The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on. The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell? The story of the Ravanayana had never been told. Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed outcastes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale. But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak. "For thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor's tale, the Ramayana. Now hear the Ravanayana, for I am Ravana, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished." "I am a non-entity-invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravana and Rama - the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser." The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young saviour-Ravana. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravana, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed, Ravana leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravana succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed for them. It is when that Ravana, by one action, changes the history of the world.

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