Welcome to Litsy!

Not only is this retelling of the classic as funny as can be, it has playful font action as well. Rama can stop a boom shakalaka apocalypse and a monster with ten heads, but he does need help from magical monkeys etc. And he still manages to be "shocked at his own shocked state." But Rama, why oh why are you so hard on your dear Sita?

Soorpanaka doesn't need a diet or the gym. She says: "I ripped into my fitness figure through awesome praying."
[image shamelessly ripped from Internet]

"...the red squirrel tribes wet their fur in the surf then rolled in the sand, then quickly onto Nala's bridge and shook themselves - filling all the tiny spaces to make the bridge firm..."

I love the part where the squirrels help out. Visions of Squirrel Girl! (The image above is from another version, Sita's Ramayana, adapted from Moyna Chitrakar's wordless scroll paintings, with text by Samhita Arni.)

What a blessing if we could live in peace treasured 'midst our banana plantations, with honey from the hives whilst spearing beasts for their scrumptious meat. Oh and also dealing easily with the odd demon who is dropping by!

All type demons recently infested-pested
this formerly peaceful forest,
they rub their chummy-tummy
at the thought of eating sages dead raw.

#Indic #poetry #playfulnesswithwords

Playful book design and impish "gore galore!" content:
"A gonad fell in a sage's outstretched palm,
urine dribbled the beard of another...
The delicacy of the story forbids further embellishments of this nature "

#Indic #poetry

"The sages felt unduly boo-hooey" - Nagra's wordplay is a delight. #Indic #poetry

Though each human trace is erased
from the universe and the Earth,
though each corpse be million years under,
Mother Earth will always bear
an impress of every foot that trod anxiously
and ecstatically, through good and evil,
upon her...
Upon her.... till Kala consume all again.

#Indic #poetry