Navarasa Shurpanakha | SANKHYA | Bharatanatyam | Sukanya Kumar | ft. Karthik Hebbar

The phrase Haasyam Shoorpanakhamukhe (Which means Rama laughed looking at the voilently dismembered face of Shorpanakha) from Navarasa Ramayana has always disturbed me. I am not trying to rewrite history, I am just trying to re-read it. I was looking for a composition from Shurpanakha’s perspective, when I came across Karthik Hebbar’s was surreal to see how much our approach matched. It was like we were trying to say the same two different languages of art. Presenting Navarasa Gadhyam on Shurpanakha. Happy Womans’ Day! Let us celebrate Woman’s History should we say Herstory Month! Karthik’s post: “Every time I sang the Ramayana Navarasa shloka, I would cringe at the phrase HASYAM SHOORPANAKHAMUKHE. The very natural inclusion of violence as something funny, I fail to digest no matter what interpretation of Dharma one would impose on me. Also I have a strong dislike for the fact that we only have writings of male scholars with us, a