

Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Narrator: Suyash Mohan
Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 06/25/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Hinduism
Synopsis
In the present book, the author has emphasized on this very fact that Sita, though shown as a submissive character, was a woman who had massive strength. In the book, the author has shown Sita’s childhood in a more detailed manner. Her relationship with her father, king Janaka, who was a very sober and spiritual person, Sita’s forest stay with her husband and after that her lone stay, her connection and conversations with the women in Lanka, at the ‘Ashoka Vatika’, the sentiments that were shared amongst them. Also, depicted is her attachment with her sisters, with the trees in the forest, as she loved her life in forest, her bond with the mother earth.
This book has portrayed Sita in a fair and magnanimous way, along with restating the whole story of Ramayana.