A review by monicapal15
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

5.0

I absolutely loved this! I grew up listening and reading the Ramayana and would think about it every year during Diwali. And though in the story I grew up with, Kaikeyi is considered the villain for exiling Ram, I loved reading this feminist retelling of Kaikeyi’s life.  It reminds me that (and although I know this is a mythic retelling) history has always been viewed, told, and shared from a patriarchal lens. The villain in someone’s story is not always a multi-headed rakshasa, but patriarchy itself.