Women In Ramayana And Mahabharata

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are heldback “ Malala Yousafzai
Women have often been the unnoticed bright stars in the evolution of the mankind, civilization and society. While everyone, right from historians to modern day people talk about significant contribution of women to the society, one often fails to see women’s perspectives in the same events or society in general. Women have often been depicted in various avatars as symbols of strength, sacrifice, loyalty and commitment for their husband and families etc. But ironically despite being such important contribution, our society has failed to see women’s perspective, whether it is our epics, history or even our modern times. One really wonders how our Ramayana and Mahabharata will look like if it was narrated by Sita or Draupadi, the two main women of our epics.
Our mythological epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, which have had lasting impacts on civilizations, have also seen women playing very important parts in the entire epics and influencing

Here again, starting from historical time’s right up to modern current times. Women have often been subjected to a secondary treatment in the society. In the Epic, Ramayana, Sita was made to pass the fire test and even raise her children in forests in the narration of the book ‘Sita: an illustrated retelling of the Ramayana’ written by Devdutt Pattnaik. Sita faced the entire wrong doing despite being faithful and loyal to Lord Ram. She sacrificed all her comforts to accompany Ram to jungles for fourteen years and faced all risks and problems shoulder to shoulder. Her abduction was a result of her sacrifices. Post her rescue by Lord Ram, one would have expected a happy life for Sita, instead she had to again go back to forests on the basis of a doubt created by a citizen of Ayodhya. She still did her duties as a mother by raising her children and uniting them with their