| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 978-93-81576-05-2 |
| No of pages | 499 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Leadstart Publishing Private Limited |
| Published Date | 25 Apr 2012 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 978-93-81576-05-2 |
| No of pages | 499 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Leadstart Publishing Private Limited |
| Published Date | 25 Apr 2012 |
Anand Neelakantan is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker. He has authored six fiction books in English and one in Malayalam. His debut work Asura, The Tale of the Vanquished is based on the Indian epics of Ramayana. His next book series was Ajaya-Roll of the Dice, Ajaya – Rise of Kali based, the two books on the epic Mahabharata told from Kaurava perspective. Anand's books voice the suppressed party or the defeated party. His fifth book Vanara, the legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara also follow the same pattern of voicing the defeated side.
Anand Neelakantan also had signed with the producers of Baahubali, the blockbuster film, for a three-book series based on their film and the series will be a prequel to the film. The first book of this trilogy, Rise of Sivagami, was released in March 2017. Netflix has announced a webseries on the book. His books have been translated to different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali , Gujarati, Assamese and Indonesian Bahasa. The second book in the series, Chaturanga was released on August 6th 2020
Anand’s Asura is one of the 100 books to be read in a life time as per Amazon.[1] The book has sold more than half a million copies across the years. Three of Anand Neelakantan’s books have been shortlisted for crossword award during the respective years and he is also listed as one among the 100 top celebrities in India in 2015, 2017 by Forbes India. All his books have got critical accreditation from various people across the world.
Anand Neelakantan's fifth book Vanara,[2] the legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara is published by Penguin Random House and is a best seller. DAR films and KR movies have announced that they have won the film adoption rights and will be producing a multilingual film on Vanara.
Anand's Malayalam work Pennramayanam has been published by Mathrubhumi books.
Anand also writes a column for New Indian Express on current affairs and his fortnightly column is called "Acute Angle".
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The epic tale of victory and defeat. The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravenna, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on.
The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. But what if Ravenna and his people had a different story to tell? The story of the Ramayana had never been told. Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed outcastes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale.
But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak. for thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor's tale, the Ramayana.
Now hear the Ramayana, for I am Ravenna, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished. I nil am a non-entity ? invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravenna and Rama ? the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser.
I The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young savior ? Ravenna. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravenna, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed,
Ravenna leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravenna succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed for them. It is when that Ravenna, by one action, changes the history of the world.