Four things Viji...
a) Dan Brown
b) The wooing of rebecca and the last matriarch, Noor Jahan and Shah jahan and of course a reigning monarch of a certain country( cannot take names, or my comment will be deleted i'm afraid; guess!)
c) Kaikeyi of Ramayana
d) the snow white and the seven dwarfs
I loved how your OS made me remember the references to all of these.
and annapurna was saying just that,
" mirror mirror on the wall,
who is the fairest of them all"
and the answer until the baby grew up,
" you my queen are fairest in the land"
and then one day,
" you my queen are fair its true,
but snow white is fairer far than you"
and instead of sending the witch to kill her brilliant nephew, she has started allotting him the extreme corners of her empire. or maybe its cinderella's stepmother, who disappointed that her daughters were uglier than her stepdaughter...made her scrub and clean the whole day...and when she met the prince she ensured that the prince would be meant for her ugly daughters and not who the prince had fallen in love with...and she with him.
You brought out the whole characterisation brilliantly...
and then when the prince actually comes...he knows exactly who is who..because after all talent is talent...and only one person will be in possession of the other glass slipper. Lionesses after all will never pair with bulls.
I am in love with your perfect way of writing, suspense and drama.
love---
medha.
Edited by medhasarkar - 9 years ago