num_pages: 320
description: From the bestselling author of Karnas Wife comes this book about Urmila Sitas sister and the neglected wife of Lakshman and one of the most overlooked characters in the Ramayana. As Sita prepares to go into exile her younger sisters stay back at the doomed palace of Ayodhya their smiles hope and joy wiped away in a single stroke. And through the tears and the tragedy one woman of immense strength and conviction stands apartUrmila whose husband Lakshman has chosen to accompany his brother Ram to the forest rather than stay with his bride. She could have insisted on joining Lakshman as did Sita with Ram. But she did not. Why did she agree to be left behind in the palace waiting for her husband for fourteen painfully long years?
language: English
title: Sita's Sister
publisher: Rupa Publications Private Limited