Indian readers are looking for stories and novels that bring the historical and mythical world with a touch of contemporariness. The novelists like Amish Tripathi and Ashwin Sanghi have tried their best for their works based on Indian myths and history. They tried to manipulate mythological and historical sources into a new area of writing novels- Religious, Political and Historical thrillers. Unlike earlier fictions based on Indian myths and history, which exhibit a parallel story or retell these, contemporary Indian novelists have tried an innovative way to present the same by repackaging. Amish Tripathi brings the God and Goddess an extraordinary human form. The novelists craft plausible stories by manipulating mythical and historical characters and places; furthermore, assimilating them with contemporary storylines has become the prime business.
Thus, a new form of writing novels based on religious scriptures and history has emerged in the last few years. Like Amish Tripathi, Ashwin Sanghi has emerged as one of the celebrated novelists who write novels using history and myths in a very different artistic way. His writings are an outcome of intense research. Research that tries to prove the historicity of The Mahabharta and Ramayana and draw a similarity between ancient times and day-to-day events. He believes that history has not been outdated; it has always been important in the present time. In one of his interviews, he says that the past is still relevant in the contemporary era.
However, the emergence of these novelists brought about tremendous change in the traditional writing and reading culture. Such a writing business has brought about a revolution in writing novels in contemporary India.
This area of writing novels has emerged as a new platform for writers and readers. Indian myths have a lot to explore and exhibit before the readers to take them into an ancient world that has relevance in the contemporary era. These myths are tales used from pass generation to generation orally in the past. Nowadays, novelists are reconstructing and weaving plausible stories out of these myths. They have been vesting their artistic approach to acquaint contemporary readers with the glorious past.
They process chunks of religious scriptures or characters or stories and so on. There are many novelists nowadays who are writing novels on the same line. The other minor novelists also use history and myths relating them to day-to-day realities receiving good reception from the readers. Purposely, they have come forward to work upon allusions, fictionalised, fabricated manuscripts version of Hindu religious holy books.
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