VAYAM RAKSHAMAH

This is Acharya Chatursen’s most popular novel, which is based on the Ram Katha , but whose protagonist is not Rama but Ravana. In this novel, the author details other aspects of Ravana’s personality that made him superior to Rama. According to this book, Ravana devised a new cultural system that would unite the North with the South, which he called the Rakshasanskriti. When Ravana went to Lord Shiva, he described the culture as ‘we protect. This is our rakshasanskriti.’