INDRA THE RISE AND FALL OF A HERO (PB)

There was something unusual in
the air. There was no sound, no breeze and time seemed to have
stopped as the world waited with bated breath. The eerie silence was
unnerving and unsettling. What
was this anticipation for? What was the world waiting for?

In the stillness of the infinite silence, a mother was waiting in
anticipation to give the world its elements. Indra was about to be
born.

Indra, most popularly known for his power over the rains, has been considered
to be a cosmic,
dragon-killing hero and a warrior god. So, what makes this warrior hero
fall from grace? What
makes him insecure, powerless and given to lust and merriment in the
post-Vedic era? Indra—the
Rise and Fall of a Hero is an attempt to look closely at an erstwhile
‘human-hero’, much maligned
in the later period due to the wheel of time, which doesn’t even spare the
gods.