If there is a thing called being a ‘Mahabharata Person’ then that would be me. What I mean is, that I have read the Mahabharata a couple of times written by various authors. Till date the one written by C Rajagopalachari is one of the best books that I have read. However for a long time, I have been wanting to read the Ramayana, but never made an attempt to do so, until I came across this book. The first of this six-volume series, Rise of the Sun Prince, takes you through the divine story of Lord Rama from his birth up to his marriage. For generations we have been passed lessons of life via stories and mythology, where its purely upto the recipient how to interpret the underlying message or just absorb it as entertainment. Each of these stories have intricate layers embedded therefore spinning out multiple interpretations and one of those is what author Shubha Vilas has used while retelling the Ramayana. What I love about the book is that because it is split into multip