Taking a break from the festival posts, here is a book review instead, for you, while I gather more Navaratri - related material to post!
I had high hopes from �Asura� � Tale of the vanquished - The story of Ravana and his people, by Anand Neelakantan. After all, how often is it that we get to read the other side of an epic? I should have been warned by the title � or rather, the long explanation to the title. The book is just the same, a long, rambling monologue, which brings little new or interesting to the fore.