NOVEL~*Hiding behind a Stranger*~ Thread 3- CHAPTERS 5 & 6 - Page 114

Originally posted by: karkuzhali

Mydear Shyamala,

As usual I am mesmerised by your writing.

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Are you referring to my pm to you? Because I do not remember anything that I have written like this in any of my comments!😕

Yours

Saraswathi akka.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Akka,

You have far too soft a corner for me and thus for my writing, but never mind, I accept the very warm compliment with becoming gratitude! Thank you very much.

As for the confusion about the line you have cited, I have edited my post to clarify it. Do take a look at it again.

Shyamala

Originally posted by: karkuzhali

Thank you very much Shyamala. I did not ask you to be friend with your ailment but challenge and win over it. Don't you think there is lot of difference between the two?

Saraswathi Akka.

Originally posted by: sashashyam

Dear Lashykanna,

I have read thru these 2 chapters not once, not twice, but fully three times.

my Heera's eyes.

Ok... I need to first be able to get beyond how much the first sentence and the 2nd phrase means to me... before I can write a reply to your words periyamma 🤗

So encouraging...

and one thing I can sense ... whether there may be aspects of the story you like or not, approve or not, you seem to be very involved with its scenes and characters... like you're almost in the scene, periyamma...

is this how you could analyse every JA episode so eloquently

🤗

Originally posted by: sashashyam

I do not like comparisons between this tale and Jodha Akbar, or between the obviously deliberately named Heera/Harka Baisa and Jodha Begum, but I could not help noting that Heera has so many qualities that I had hoped to find in Jodha, but had, sadly, drawn a blank.

Exactly Aunty. Heera is all that i wanted Jodha to be. Lashy was surprised at my Heroine-philia here initially especially after my annoyance with Jodha for more than 2 years. But then, Heera is grace and wisdom personified. A true blue princess who can inspire intelligent poetry. 😳

Sole objection: I have only one reservation about the way in which Heera is depicted, as a wide-eyed Jodha look alike. I know why this has been done, but I personally would rather not have it. Jodha's features are not those that one would think of for Heera Baisa, whom I see as a delicate, almost fey creature, seeming at times to be not quite of this world.

Yesss. Someone more delicate, more elegant, more royal. But I know PS is Lashy's muse. But her sketching of Heera's looks and qualities more than satisfy my imagery of Heera which is more like Sivakami of Kalki's SS.

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Originally posted by: karkuzhali

Sandya,

In my honest opinion,your adjectives, "more delicate, more elegant,and more royal" don't suit Sivakami of "SS". Sivakami was a commoner , with no qualities of any girl born in a noble family. She was a personification of jealousy, obstinacy, and selfishness, and she showed all these when she refused to go with Narasimhavarmar when he came to Vathabhi to take her back to Kanchi. She was such an idiot that did not even have the minimum common sense to understand the fact that how an ordinary dancer like her could marry the sole heir of a big Kingdom. She was neither tactful nor humble like Lashy's heroine .

Saraswathi Aunty.

Aunty, i meant looks. Not behaviour or thinking. I cannot imagine PS as Heera. I meant can only imagine someone like in Kalki's description of Sivakami.

Originally posted by: Sandhya.A

Aunty, i meant looks. Not behaviour or thinking. I cannot imagine PS as Heera. I meant can only imagine someone like in Kalki's description of Sivakami.