She writes on one of India’s best
loved genres: Mythology. But make no mistake, Kavita Kane, is not doing any run
of the mill re-telling of Indian mythological stories. Quite the contrary. She
is bringing to life, lesser known or understood characters from well-known
epics like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. What’s even more unique, is that
her stories’ protagonists are exclusively female. Even though the epics by
themselves have strictly male heroes, the seeming passivity of the female
character gives her a unique perspective, which Kane brings out in her books.
So whether it is Karna’s wife, Sita’s sister, Menaka’s Choice or her latest –
Lanka’s Princess, which recounts the story from Surpanakha’s perspective; the
quality of the almost shadow character is a running theme across all her books.
But where did Kane get the
inspiration to write about these characters in the first place?
