A Chat with Ranjith Radhakrishnan an entrepreneur and an author
Hello everyone. This is meera. Gopalakrishnan. And once again, I am welcoming you all to my swellcast. And today I have with me in my swellcast an esteemed guest, Mr. Renjit Gopalakrishnan, who has multiple hats. He is an entrepreneur, he is an author, he is an ex actor, he is an assistant director and he is also a script writer. So you understand the versatility of our guest. And I'm very thankful that Mr
Namaste. Good evening to everybody. Thank you, Miraji, for having me on this podcast. I'm so happy for your invitation. I'm glad I can come and talk about my book. And Lord parasharama here. Thank you for having me here
Welcome sir. So since your first book is based on Indian mythology and also on the 6th incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Lord Parashirama. So as you are aware, these days mythology is the happening word and everybody wants to jump on that wagon and create some Mitofiction out of it. So could you please tell our viewers what are your thought of the contemporary Mitofiction that is in the market? Is it just a passe or is it there to stay?
You? That's a great question to start the evening with. I am all for more people writing more about our stories, especially for the younger generation. I had read somewhere that the National Manuscripts Mission has around 4 million manuscripts in their possession, and a great majority of them are yet to be translated. So we still do not know how many stories are there in that that we can all learn from
So such kind of such kind of making the mythological character suit the TRP or the populism I feel is happening too much. And I would like to know your thoughts on them. You have answered it in your previous question. But I would still like to know how can we question a creative or where should the creative liberty should stop? As far as my proficient goes
Now, this has started way back, much before the serials and the OTT content came, when the Puranic movies were being made, there was a little bit of a glorification of Karna that happened. And over the years that has percolated down to an idol worship of Karna. Now, if you read Vedavyasa's Mahabharata, he says, the tree of evil that is represented by Duryodhana Dushasana Shakuni and Karna, that tree, the trunk of that tree, is Karna
The 6th incarnation of Lord Vishnu, lord Parishurama, whose legend is closely associated with Kerala, the place where we both are from. So I would like to know what made you take this incarnation? Because there is no romance in this incarnation. There is no love story. Even the war doesn't have a romanticism to it. It's mostly a sage. He had his own motivations to fight, and his journey is more of an acidic journey. And he is one of the seven Jeeves we know
Like you said, he's supposed to be the creator of the Konkan coast, not just Kerala, but all the way from Kanyakumari up to Goa. Now, I think the Keralites would be familiar with the story and even people from the Konkan coast in Karnataka. I don't think the North Indians know much about this. But there are other stories about Parasharama that have not. I don't think even South Indians know how he is associated with Guru Datriya. What is the connection there?
This is why I chose Parasharama, because the tale itself was so fascinating to me. The Avatar himself is so fascinating to me. And I think it all started with that first visit to Thiruvallam Temple
The root is finally in those maito on what we believed, what were our Dharma and how we kind of wanted a world where everybody can thrive, not one person or one sect or anything like that. And every incarnation or Vishnu, the protector of the universe through every incarnation has given that message itself in one way or the other
Thank you so much for being so interested in my book. The name of the book is Arama of the Axe. It has been published by Westland Books and is available in all your main bookstores on Amazon, Flipkart and Padega, India. I would be very interested in what your feedback is. Miraji now, every avatar does come for establishing Dharma. And we have a worldview that is quite unlike any other theology or ideology that is there
Raise the Gandhiwa and fight like a Kshatriya. So I feel like and as Parshirama's Keys, I understand we can get it more through his life because it's his decisions on what he should do and how he should move around. Because he was born a Brahmin, but then he became a Shatriya. He finished of Karthi Virajuna