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Indian Authors catch up and Mythology comes of age
Finally, its happened!
with the emergence of legends like Lord of the Rings and fics like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson.. Indian Mythology comes of age..
Author Ashok Banker begins and author Amish continues..
Ashok’s Ramayana series is a complete and unabriged version of the Ramayana.. only not told like ‘for the kids and by the worshippers’ anymore.. The characters are human, rather than divine, with faults.. no more ‘touch of his sword to end the asura’.. Ram now dresses as the Prince of Persia and battles like the guy from Ninja Assassin! Get ready to be taken for a ride..
More details when I finish with the series (6 parts).
Amish’s Shiva Trilogy is the successor.. starting with The Immortals of Meluha.. set in the Indus Valley Civilization, it merges history with myth and ficition to create a tribal leader called Shiva, whose actions led him to be revered as a Mahadev, a God.
Yes, its based off the myth of Lord Shiva.. but pictures him as a fallible human, confused and misled by politics.. as he journeys to protect the new land that gave his people home.
Finished it today; rocks! check it out!
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