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Sita’s Sister
by Kavita Kane
Description:
From the bestselling author of Karna’s Wife, comes this book about Urmila, Sita’s sister and the neglected wife of Lakshman, and one of the most overlooked characters in the Ramayana. As Sita prepares to go into exile, her younger sisters stay back at the doomed palace of Ayodhya, their smiles, hope and joy wiped away in a single stroke. And through the tears and the tragedy one woman of immense strength and conviction stands apartUrmila, whose husband, Lakshman, has chosen to accompany his brother Ram to the forest rather than stay with his bride. She could have insisted on joining Lakshman, as did Sita with Ram. But she did not. Why did she agree to be left behind in the palace, waiting for her husband for fourteen painfully long years?
About The Author
Kavita Kané is the best-selling author of Karna’s Wife: The Outcast’s Queen and Sita’s Sister. She started her career as a journalist and is now a full-time novelist. She is a postgraduate in English literature and mass-communications and a self-confessed aficionado of theatre and cinema. Married to a mariner, she is a mother to two teenaged daughters and currently lives in Pune along with Dude, the overfriendly Rottweiler, Chic the friendly Spaniel and Babe, the unfriendly cat.
Poonam Modi
Sita’s Sister is a good book. It is for people who like to have an insight about side characters of epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata.
You can surely give it a try!
Skryf Review
Sita’s Sister is the relatable portrayal of all the characters, Ram, Lakshman, Sita, Urmila, Dasharath etc, people we only see as larger than life gods and shown like normal people. This story is a brilliant composition of human emotions that evokes uninhibited sentiments in the reader. This story about Urmila takes you through the excitement of a young lover about to be married to her beloved, the angst of a newly wedded couple who get separated, and the calm of a mature woman rebuilding the remnants of a shattered life.It also shows how the family holds on to each other and share their common grief. In doing this, the author has also brought forth the ethos of a family-trust and faith, love and bonding, care and support.This book is not a fast read, it is a slow and steady one that makes you think about some bitter realities of the male dominated world that existed in those times, and surprisingly hasn’t changed much even in today’s society. The pace is very well suited to the writing style and the subject.The language is contemporary and tasteful…
Darshak Randeria
Good book.