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A senior journalist with a career of over two decades, which includes working for Magna publication and DNA, she quit her job as Assistant Editor of Times of India to devote herself as a full time author. A self-styled aficionado of cinema and theatre and sufficiently armed with a post-graduate degree in English Literature and Mass Communication from the University of Pune, the only skill she knows, she candidly confesses, is writing.
Karna's Wife her debut novel, (2013)was a bestseller. Her second novel - Sita's Sister (2014) also deals with another enigmatic personality - Urmila, probably the most overlooked character in the Ramayan. Menaka's Choice(2015) ,another best-seller, is about the famous apsara and her infamous liaison with Vish ...more

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	Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen 3.89 avg rating — 5,844 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Devis or Devils?

The devi or the devil? The winner or the vamp? The good or the bad. The answer , of course, will be as stereotyped as the question itself. It is far easy and presumptive to bracket characters and people in mythology into stereotypes and to paint them either black or white than see them in their moods of greys, grace and disgrace. But mythology is much more complex when it comes to gender roles.
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“Princess, you have decided to follow the hard path. I cannot promise you the life a royal princess deserves,' he began slowly. 'I am a wandered myself, stuck in an eternal search. I am a vagabond who doesn't know where I am going. My past beckons my present, but I can see only a blurred future. All my life, I have been slighted as a person of low birth- and the stigma will rub off on you as well. Yet, I am not ashamed of who I am...”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

tags: pain, wandering

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“I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

tags: devotion, healing

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“Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.”
― Kavita Kane, Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

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message 4: by Sindhuja (last edited Jul 25, 2015 05:49AM)

Jul 25, 2015 02:51AM

Kavita wrote: "no its not complete fiction. there is such an argument about why Kaikeyi behaved the way she did, essentially because of her father"

But in the Ramayan there is nothing mentioned about Kaikeyi intentions on sending Ram to exile so it is based on any other version of Ramayan?

Thank you so much from your book i really got to know so many facts about Ramayan and really had a great time in reading it and also helped me to know more about Urmila's sacrifice

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message 3: by Kavita

Jul 25, 2015 02:45AM

no its not complete fiction. there is such an argument about why Kaikeyi behaved the way she did, essentially because of her father

Sindhuja wrote: "Regarding the story about Kaikeyi in Sita's sister were Kaikeyi knew about Ram's destiny to kill Ravan is it the author's own fiction or any theology behind
this?"

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message 2: by Kavita

Jul 25, 2015 02:42AM

no its not complete fiction. there is such an argument about why Kaikeyi behaved the way she did, essentially because of her father

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message 1: by Sindhuja

Jul 25, 2015 02:38AM

Regarding the story about Kaikeyi in Sita's sister were Kaikeyi knew about Ram's destiny to kill Ravan is it the author's own fiction or any theology behind this?

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