Reading Notes: Narayan's Ramayana, Section B


Chapter 4:
  • Imagine an alternate story where Kamavalli/Soorpanaka actually managed to trick and steal away Rama by some spell (or maybe in a way along the lines of a succubus in a dream?), and Sita must brave through (maybe with help from Lakshmana) to break the spell and save Rama
  • Perhaps the before mentioned scenario but where Lakshmana is the victim (or both he and Rama)?
  • Re-imagine the whole scenario as a petty high school drama:
    • Hot bad-boy Rama is new to the block with his super sweet wife/girlfriend Sita and his brother
    • Kamavalli/Soorpanaka vies for his attention (Ra-rama-senpai...)
    • With no luck she tries to sobotage/humiliate Sita, but Lakshmana discovers this and turns the tables
    • Being humiliated instead, Soorpanaka sics the jocks and other jerks in her posse on the trio, but Rama beats them up

Chapter 5:
  • Why is anyone who comes across someone who is beautiful, attractive, or something along those lines reduced to a state of either hopeless moping or outwardly destructive tendencies?
  • Is it really love that these people feel at first sight (or really just an image in Ravana's case) or just unrelenting torture caused by lust?
  • A continuation of the high school drama thought:
    • Ravana could be some obnoxiously popular brute who feels he is entitled to the world
    • Re-imagine Ravana's world-disrupting sequence of dealing with his newly found lust for a girl he has never met
      • bumping into people and disrupting normal activity
      • lurking on the Internet checking out Sita's social media pages as a different version of images of her approaching and haunting him (similar with Soorpanaka and Rama)
    • Method of how to get rid of Rama and Lakshmana: TBA
(Reading Guide ends on page 90, location 1817 in this edition)


Rama spurning Soorpanaka
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Bibliography. Narayan's Ramayana, link to Reading Guide B

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