Books in '15 | Scion of Ikshvaku
Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish Tripathi My rating: 3 of 5 stars Having their hopes spurned by Chetan Bhagat, Ravinder Singh and others, the Indian readers turn to Amish. His advantage is the genre in which he writes, it's way different than those of the authors I mentioned. He has an open field and nobody to compete with (none that I know). That deer hunting scene reminded me of a similar scene from the movie 'Avatar', apologising to the animal after killing it. Dashrath: good man but a bad king. Raavan: bad man but a good king. Nice analogy to start with but it would fail eventually. The narrative was hasty at times, the mythological facts were relentlessly bombarded, not in a way people would find convincing. The entire Roshini episode should have been left out (especially those gory details). The only purpose it served was to rally Manthara against Ram, which didn't seem a strong enough reason as compared to all other possibilities: one of t