What a mocking!!
Amused by the way the author mocks the society and those who emerges as saviors. The truth laid bare that nothing is getting penetrated to the common man. They always live in the pathetic hell like ratholes and no one cares. Who so ever the ruler, Ravana, Rama, Vidhyutjihva, Vibhishna, they are still imprisoned in their rat holes. Some give freedom to give a try to reach the top but the others pushed them deeper into the ditches. Some rose with the glittery promise of equality and prosperity to their lives but it only lived till those leaders embrace the throne. Once every leader reaches their ultimate aim, the power, they become blind of it and forget what all ideologies they have carried through out their life. Anand Neelakanthan expose this through his book “Asura”.
Gaining of the power leave the cries of the oppressed common man which is usually unheard, unwritten and neglected. The author is with their cries always. Once it will be Devas whose is suffering but when the coin turns to the other side and it will be the Asuras. Every time the group, who suffered, slaughtered, looted, and raped are the common men, only the skin color changes. Through this book “Asura” Author is indirectly laughing at those comes with the promises of new world.
In this book Author depict many who came with the promises of new world and new sky. It starts with a ruler who came with a promise of a new life but the power blinded him. Another one came with the message of equality, but he failed to practice what he preached. The one came as a destroyer of evil and protector of truth but his action never justified what he spoke. The last one introduced some new practices but it only resulted in dividing the society deeply. The classless society is far away from the reaches of a poor man.
When I started reading this book I thought the story is around the Deshamukha, praising his Glory. But later I felt that the author have some personal vengeance with Ravana. Then I thought he would be more interested in Rama, but then again I was wrong. This book is a pure critic to Rama and Ravana, though Ravana was praised more than Rama. “Asura” is the voice of the common man. The ten emotions (anger; pride; jealousy; happiness; sadness; fear; selfishness; passion; ambition; Intellect ) are pictured through the eyes of a King. His speech about the 10 faces is marvelous. This 9, other than Intellect, open the way to the downfall of the greatest emperor who loved to live and follow his own way, who likes to think different.
The way the Author, Ananad Neelakantan explained the whole story was with a humanly touch mixed with the emotions of a common man makes it very interesting. This will surely force us to think twice about some characters , who are said, pictured and revered as God by the epic. The History is written by those who won the race and so the voice of the people who couldn’t reach to the top got vanquished and ruled out. They are considered as evil, out caste and monster. Asura is the voice of those people. A successful try to show the other side of moon.
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