Deconstructing The Grand Myth: A Study Of Anand Neelakantan's "Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished"

Anand Neelakantan become known with his novel "Asura: Tale of the Vanquished" gave voice to
Ravana, the Asura king. The Ramayana, the hallowed Hindu epic, depicts the mythical tale from the perspective
of a legendary hero Ram who is worshipped as God in India. This novel explores the role of anti
by reading against the grain. The present research paper will try to deconstruct the grand myth in the novel
"Asura: Tale of the Vanquished". The writer
initiated a new tradition of looking into the tale from another side. This paper will analyze how the author has
tried to appreciate the wrong mythical character by deconstructing their imag
through it silenced dark character. In Asura Tale, Neelakantan had done the opposite brought out virtues of
Ravana and questioned certain actions of Rama that has goes unquestioned before. This research paper is to
reinterpret the past as well as epic giving voice to the muted. Neelakantan gives alternative voices, it was implied
that this distinction would emerge rather than capsizing the conventional notion, but this distinction interprets
Ravana as humane rather t h a n divine.