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Sita: Warrior of Mithila (Ram Chandra, #2)

Amish Tripathi

Start date: March 10, 2020

Finish date: March 7, 2020

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In the Ramayana, we have always know very few things about Sita. To be precise, she is the adopted daughter of King, married to the Prince of Ayodhya, accompanied her husband when he is exiled by his father for 14 years and the her kidnapping by the king of Lanka, Raavan.

Sita, the warrior of Mithila has shown a completely different, unexpected side of the princess of Mithila. She is not merely limited to a daughter or a wife, but much more than that. How she is brilliant kid from her childhood ...more

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Sita by Amish Tripathi

Rating - 2.5/5

Sita is the second book in the Ram Chandra series of Amish Tripathi.
I had genuinely liked Book 1 of the series, The Scion of Ishvaku, and had felt that Amish had got his mojo back after an underwhelming conclusion to the Shiva trilogy with the Oath of the Vayuputras.
But with this book, he seems to have somehow again lost the plot.
Rest assured, the book is not unreadable but it definately isn’t unputdownable.
The story line of Sita’s birth, her growt Book Review

Sita by Amish Tripathi

Rating - 2.5/5

Sita is the second book in the Ram Chandra series of Amish Tripathi.
I had genuinely liked Book 1 of the series, The Scion of Ishvaku, and had felt that Amish had got his mojo back after an underwhelming conclusion to the Shiva trilogy with the Oath of the Vayuputras.
But with this book, he seems to have somehow again lost the plot.
Rest assured, the book is not unreadable but it definately isn’t unputdownable.
The story line of Sita’s birth, her growth years, her administrative prowess and her ability to lead and rule a kingdom as a proxy leader are parts worth reading and admiring. One thing is for sure, he makes you respect as well as fall in love with Sita. Understandably, since the story of Sita runs parallel to Ram, in the second half after Ram and Sita are married,a lot of the content covers the same events as in the first book. But it feels important to the narrative since we get to understand Sita’s point of view to the events as well.
The sore points to the book arise mainly in the chapters or events which deal with the concept of India. I am not sure, but from what I have read, the concept of the land mass being called India began during the British rule and before that the Mughals and other northern raiders used to refer to the land as Hindustan because of the Hindukush.
The author has unnecessarily tried to give voice to certain events so as to give the storyline relevance with recent political events. Its not a political discourse that you want when reading this story. Also, if he wanted to give political relevance to make the story more appealing to the younger readers then he could have drawn a leaf out of George Orwell’s Animal Farm which stays true to its storyline and in subtle way gives a discourse on the way politics functions.

A last but not the least, the biggest sore point, out of absolutely nowhere comes a chapter on Bombay (What? Was this name even known then?) . If that is not enough, there is an entire Jauhar scene described which happens in Bombay. I am not sure whether it can be called Jauhar but I think you will get the gist. And why is all this described? To highlight the reason why Jatayu got disenchanted with the Lankan army and decided to part ways from them. The fact that this is the last real involvement of Jatayu in the book also puts a question mark on the placement of this chapter in the book. Was it an after thought? Also, it seems he was in danger of not meeting his publisher deadlines because the entire process of abduction by Raavan is dealt with in just 3 paragraphs.

And the book ends with a twist, don’t get fooled, its not a twist for us, its a twist for Sita as we all know in the start of the book that Samichi has linkages to the Lankans.

Could have been a way better book if he had stuck to the Sita point of view to events and not unnecessarily gotten into political tidbits and disjointed storylines. ...more

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Jul 13, 2017 Megha Tyagi rated it liked it

The plot and the sequencing was nice. Although repetition of the last part could be shortened more. The idea behind the Ram Chandra series is appreciating but if each part will have a repetitive ending, it mind lead some readers to skip the part and rush to the end. Otherwise it was a good read and quite gripping. The story of Sita as a princess warrior was more interesting than the story of Ram. Now after reading this, I am eagerly waiting for the Ravaan part.

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