Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Asura : Tale of the Vanquished by Anand Neelkantan

I heard a lot about this book but when I read it, I was not really impressed how the whole narrative was presented.

I see that the book is full of negativity, and people bashing. I don't believe that there was a single person in the whole book who can be loved or respected. All the characters mentioned are so full of hatred and negativity that we end up hating all of them and justifying that whatever bad happened to them was well deserved.

It started with a story of Ravana but from the beginning to end it was more like a high cast bashing and the author was hell bent to prove that the northern part of India was one of the worst places to be and it subsequently corrupted the southern part of India.

This book has a bad narrative and all the stories are twisted to prove the author's point only. This is not the Ravana's version of story. It sounds more like a personal hate manual (hate list) against north indians and the vaidik rituals.

If you want to see bad you'll never see good in anything.

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