India, Jan. 21 -- The story of Ramayana is quite a familiar one - Ram kills Ravana - and symbolises the victory of good over evil. But author Pragya Agarwal begins the story of the novel, The Renunciation, from where the epic supposedly ends. So what you get to read in the 289 pages is actually the after story of the epic where the characters can certainly not be painted as black and white as the main saga.

Pragya presents the age-old narrative through a fresh lens, one that's narrated through Sita's eyes. But knowing that this isn't the first attempt to narrate the Ramayana through this perspective, it becomes important to delve further into the writing and find out how much justice is done to history's one of most popular female charac...