short-story

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Dear friends,

 

During Rama-navami last week in Manama I found myself sorely missing

Ramayana discourses back home in India.

 

Rama-navami celebrations in the privacy of our homes are indeed very

satisfying. But there is nothing, however, that can substitute listening to

a good Ramayana "kalapshEpam" by learned scholars.

 

I had to improvise and re-create for myself in Bahrain, and for my own

private enjoyment, an atmosphere of "Rama-navami" as I'd remembered it

prevailing in Madras, MadurAntakam or Bhadrachalam.

 

I did this simply by writing a short-story over the week-end!

 

Adapting an incident from the "aranya-kAndam" once narrated by Sri.Mukkur

Swamy II, I have tried to write a simple story with its setting in the

forests of Dandakaranya along the banks of the River Godavari.

 

It's a simple story in 8 parts.

 

I hope most of you will find it interesting just as I pray it pleases the

Lord Himself.

 

adiyEn,

sudarshan