Why there is a need to humanize characters in epic
If they have shown their true colors
let them be: true to their spirits
If you really want to do something
understand their motives
Why Kaikeyi
Why don’t you humanize Manthara
Why was she made a scapegoat for crux of the epic
Was she was really a hunchback
Was her dehumanization made her one
Let’s unfold what could have happened
A second queen is a second class citizen
Why will Rama bother to like you
You aren’t his mother, Kaushalya is
Kaikeyi must have sensed her provocation
But she didn’t stop her
For she knew deep inside
there is nothing one can manipulate
if there is nothing to manipulate
Just because you have guns
you don’t go on a shooting spree
O sympathizer where were you
When she mercilessly asked two of her boons
Exile of 14 years for Rama
And throne for Bharata, her son
And what timing she had chosen
Dashratha must have had a heart attack
She wouldn’t take no for an answer
Lying on the death bed
He must have asked himself
Where was the need to give her boons
and why exactly two boons
one for driving his chariot in war and one nursing his wounds
Why did he spurge on boons
He remembered: she had laughed.
When he told her
You saved my life
Why did she laugh
He didn’t understand it then
but he must knew now
In those giggles
she must have said this
If you don’t value your life
What can I do
Taken.
Your life is mine now.
I’ll take it when
I want to live like a widow
Or you sympathize with her because
She was the mother of Bharata
An epitome of fraternal love and devotion
But did she contact Bharata
before asking him the throne
She just asked the throne
Loss of faith in Dashratha and belief in Rama
She grew insecure and scared
Scared dog barks unnecessarily
and bites randomly
and rest as they say is blood
In blood lies history
history of fatherless king
history of kingless kingdom
history of forced abandonment
history of loneliness
and absolute lack of joy
Humanization of selected few
is our common problem
Not much has changed
We stay true to our epic’s characters
Ask anyone in Ayodhaya
Aren’t they waiting for Ram Rajya
whatever that means
