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VOL. 7, ISSUE 2 (2021)
Humanising Lord Shiva: Understanding The Immortals of meluha
Authors
Deepak
Abstract
In India, religion has always been an important part of lives of most of the people of the country and for their belief in religion; mythology has played a major role. It is mythology only that plays a key role in making people believe in religion and on gods, whom they worship like anything. But, today writers like Amish Tripathi and Devdutt Pattanaik are redefining religion in an altogether new way by remapping mythology. Devdutt Pattanaik has written a lot on Indian mythology, and he tries to make it interesting and fact based as well. Amish Tripathi, on the other hand has not written that much about religion, but he too redefines mythology and the myths formulated in order to create the great image of the glorious gods of our religion, especially about Lord Shiva. The Shiva Trilogy by him which includes The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas and The Oath of the Vayuputras unfolds many new facts by portraying Lord Shiva as a man; a man with extraordinary courage and blind hatred for evil which transformed him into a god, as the world think of him. This research paper will try to explore how brilliantly Amish as an author, makes people agree with his point by giving concrete examples which establish the fact that Shiva whom they worship as a god, was actually a man, a Tibetan tribal who fought for the cause of humanity and defeated evil forces with his courage and marvelous efforts. The paper will also emphasise on finding how it has become possible for Amish to write in such a way about a sacred god and was it possible for any author to write this kind of novels four or five decades back and if not what made it happen in the case of Amish Tripathi.
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Pages:07-09
How to cite this article:
Deepak "Humanising Lord Shiva: Understanding <em>The Immortals of meluha</em> ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 07-09
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