@Harshika08
hey harshika !
This is Akshayaa. PandavaNandini trilogy? Suthanu? Lol I don't know if you remember me.
But so glad to see you back on this platform like maybe you're back last year but I'm just noticing. This is amazing. I can't wait to read your books again.
Love ,
Akshayaa.
Sita walks back into Ayodhya not as a queen, but as a woman shaped by exile. Urmila counts the years in silence, her loyalty unacknowledged. Mandavi, always steady, finds her faith tested in a world that doesn't reward stillness. And Bharat—grief-stricken, duty-bound—must lead a kingdom while mourning a brother who was never truly gone.
The Return is a reflective reimagining of the Ramayana, told not through battles and dharma, but through longing, loss, love, and quiet defiance.
What does it mean to return—to a palace, to a relationship, to oneself—when everything familiar feels changed?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/405334921?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=Harshika08
I've been immensely loved by my readers on wattpad, and its an honour to share one of my new works after such a long time. I've been busy with my internship, but finally I think I can come back to writing without worrying - as I have been fighting sleep and schedules, this will be regularly updated. I request you all to stop by and drop your precious reviews.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/405334921
Hi people,
You guys have been my guiding light in the dark.
I am starting a new story- "The Return"
It's a completed Novella.
This time, I am posting the updates on Substack
I'll post the link here.
The Return
“Ram had all the means to go back and seek Sita. He knew where she was. He could meet his offspring, and he could offer them the world. But here he sat, naked and devoid of any familial love, not even knowing how his children look like.”
Summary:
Sita walks back into Ayodhya not as a queen, but as a woman shaped by exile. Urmila counts the years in silence, her loyalty unacknowledged. Mandavi, always steady, finds her faith tested in a world that doesn't reward stillness. And Bharat—grief-stricken, duty-bound—must lead a kingdom while mourning a brother who was never truly gone.
The Return is a reflective reimagining of the Ramayana, told not through battles and dharma, but through longing, loss, love, and quiet defiance.
What does it mean to return—to a palace, to a relationship, to oneself—when everything familiar feels changed?
For those who wonder what happened after the epic ended.
https://open.substack.com/pub/harshikaverma/p/the-night-before-the-return?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5tosw0
For everyone who shall support my story on this platform, I am heavily obliged and full of gratitude.
I'd be looking forward to your reviews and will surely consider it a great favour.
Thank You
Hi
My absence should not be appreciated. But my hands are tied with my gruesome medical degree.
Got my hands on Scions today. Pls do give a read
https://www.wattpad.com/story/225139662?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=Harshika08&wp_originator=K2qEVS0kqAR8UiTwtCS7ViZndnPHGVliv2GVH0FBNOD%2B8T%2FJFQ%2Bs83C0NAv7AN7ehbyNDCkaC%2BQo96HBvAZIMmcZMDYZD2Xj%2Ff6kXymgJgCVhVieK6sPwEl8kuDAZaQA
My sister just joined wattpad with an absolute surprise, do check this out ❤❤
https://www.wattpad.com/story/308736627
I had a curiosity and I remember that you said it somewhere that the characterisation of Uttarkanda is different than Valmiki Ramayana. I just wanna ask that are there differences in the way Valmiki Ramayana is written and Uttar Ramayana is written?
@Harshika08 Hiya harshi!!!! Sorry I didn't reply I was actually busy with my sister's wedding and I thought that I would've replied but I hadn't. Hehe. I'm good too and how about you? I know I have heard so many things suddenly happening in Uttar Ramayana like him drinking alcohol and things like how they had women dancing in the court and stuff, I'm not sure how much of that is actually written in Uttar Ramayana but if it's there then I don't think it's written by Valmiki. Plus Valmiki already wrote "And they lived happily ever after" part in the Yudhha kanda/ Lanka Kanda.
@Hannahstorm311 I have had pen friends of good knowledge of the translations tell me that. Plus, my Idea tells me that the Uttar Kand came into preferance during the 18th century, becoming popular with time and getting performed and recited now and then. The stark contrast in the depiction comes in the change in characteristics of certain leads of the story. A man, who goes all the way to Lanka, and fights a war and rescues his wife, who ultimately sits for the Agni Pariksha, can't possibly dodge his husbandly and fatherly duties to do what the king demands. How much ever we amalgamate the kingly duties with Ram's demeanour, he is still the husband who cried aimlessly and maniacally- asking for his wife's whereabouts from trees and plants. How do you justify this, with that recitation? I don't know. It will always be an extrapolation to me. Btw, how are you dear?? Its been a long, very long time
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Go and check the update and tell me how you liked it :)
https://www.wattpad.com/story/230264340?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=Harshika08&wp_originator=HyiVWHr%2F799uGwGb7vMHwq%2BXTQiZrNNAPWnroALZ%2BMVOG74PlHwn0n8%2FAeeh6Cwi9pX0KL67gzbNMLIGZbrLn7D5TannNokMAY5Ir5iFVr5UphyaeJyaPEjLoTo6wX%2FJ
Well, it goes a bit like this
-Uttara wrote on her parchment-
After the Cacophony-||18||
https://www.wattpad.com/1169922806-scions-of-kuru-after-the-cacophony-18