About the Book: The Girl Who Chose: A new way of narrating the Ramayana
You are bound by rules, but not I. I am free to choose.
Two thousand years ago, the poet-sage Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. It is the
story of Ram, the sun-prince of Ayodhya, who is bound by the rules of family and
kingship and so, makes no choices. And of Ravana, king of Lanka, who does not
care for rules or others choices. Over the centuries, hundreds have retold the
epic in different languages, adding new twists and turns. But few have noticed
that the tale always depends on the five choices