Ramayana The game of life
Book 6
Think Big to win by Shubha Vilas
Ebook by Kindle
Book Review
Genre Retelling of epic
Rating 3.5/5 (As compared to his books one to five!)
I have mentioned this many times but I am again repeating it for the sake of it! Very first rendition of Ramayana was which blew my mind was C Rajagopalachari’s Added by of course the Amar Chitra Katha Ramayana and Tulsidas Ramayana which was a pretty decent job especially the extended Ramayana addition with Had about 4 to 6 volumes and each and every episode was mentioned in detail.
Then I read Devdutt Pattanaik’s Sita and that was also a very detailed retelling of Ramayan specially from different sources and it was also very well researched book thOugh I don’t have much hope for the author especially after going through his toxic twitter profile (if it’s fake then I retract this!)
Of course that’s as you would have realised by now the book number six starts where the book number five ends! The search party has found Seetha and now they reach the end of the ocean and now they’re staring at the ocean to cross and reach Lanka.
Now most of his previous books stuck to the epic by Valmiki and deviated only a little to give some news stories and side stories on the origin of that particular character in the book. Though this book also received similar treatment somehow there is a lack of continuity which was not seen in any of us his other books.
Some stories are interesting and some side stories are also nice but somehow there is lack of flow. Also there are more elaborate stories in other sources.
This may be because the first two books in the series and also the previous book had very elaborate stories with lots of side notes and no loss of continuity.
I feel like the author was in a hurry to get this over
This maybe because I have read many other novels which have an update on these things and the stories are ones which we already know!
The best part of the novel is of course not the stories or the depiction of events but the morals and sayings of what we can learn from each and every episode!
These are given as subtexts in the end which are really nice And then I realise that the author is a TED speaker and he uses these stories and incidents to make his point across.
You can read the book just for the critical analysis and the final interpretation of a particular incident and what we can learn from them!
Of course if you read the first five novels in the series then there is no question about it that you read this for the closure! A much-needed closure!Though of course he does not mention the Uttarakhand which I am guessing may be another novel.
For now enjoy this series and try to incorporate the teachings in your life!
Jai Sri Ram!
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