Menaka's Choice

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1. The Palace of Illusions

   The Palace of Illusions

   by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

   AdultsIndian author

   The Mahabharata told by Draupadi — her birth from fire, her marriage to five brothers, her friendship with Krishna and her secret feelings for Karna.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹330 ↗

2. The Forest of Enchantments

   The Forest of Enchantments

   by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

   AdultsIndian author

   The Ramayana as Sita's own story, including her voice on the fire ordeal and her exile, alongside other women of the epic.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹289 ↗

3. Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

   Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen

   by Kavita Kané

   AdultsIndian author

   The Mahabharata through Uruvi, a princess who chooses the 'low-born' Karna, and the price she pays for loving an outcast.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹277 ↗

4. Sita's Sister

   Sita's Sister

   by Kavita Kané

   AdultsIndian author

   Urmila, Lakshman's wife, left behind for fourteen years when he follows Rama into exile, finally gets her own story.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹265 ↗

5. Lanka's Princess

   Lanka's Princess

   by Kavita Kané

   AdultsIndian author

   Surpanakha, Ravana's sister, reimagined as a woman shaped by rejection and anger rather than a monster.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹280 ↗

6. Ahalya's Awakening

   Ahalya's Awakening

   by Kavita Kané

   AdultsIndian author

   Ahalya, cursed to stone in the Ramayana, retold as a scholar and a woman who chooses to act on her own desire.

   Buy on Amazon.in · ₹295 ↗