Lanka's Princess as an Art of Reclaiming Beauty

This paper revolves around the idea of beauty as represented and circulated in literature, which becomes the norm for defining the same. The way in which Surpunakha is groomed, treated and inch by inch described in ancient mythology becomes the substance of discussion in Kavita Kane’s Lanka’s Princess. The paper hence analyses the whole known story from the standpoint of Surpunaka, and her reasons for being so from different angles.