Author: Samhita Arni
Artist: Moyna Chitrakar
Title: Sita's Ramayana
Year: 2011
pages 111-end
Ravana is dead. The war is over.
Rama gets the city and the honor of crowning a new king.
Sita is free. Rama is of course a hero, he saved her.
For all the good that does. The cannot be together, again.
His war to save his honor has left a blood soaked trail and women and children with out fathers, brothers and husbands.
Sita in her state of innocence and purity is deeply hurt.
Sita jumps into a fire, but the god Agni leads her out because she is indeed pure.
Rama and Sita jump in their UFO and head back to the kingdom they had been exiled from.
Ayodhya.
Sita gets pregnant.
Rumors.
She gets left in the forest.
Abandoned.
The forest hears her grief.
Again, like Snow White, the nature kingdom are there as her companions.
She has a son Lava.
Bam, magically she has his twin, Kusha that a hermit, Valmiki, made for her.
Usually only a man gets to be the wise person, dweller of the forest.
Sita takes on a male role by staying in the forest.
Hanuman, Lakshmana and Rama get beat in battle by the boys.
The boys then get raised by their father as warriors
and poor Sita jumps into the earth.
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