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@article{207188,
        author = {Sahil Khasa and Prof. Dr J.K. Sharma},
        title = {HUMANISING THE DIVINE: ETHICAL AGENCY AND THE REMAKING OF HEROISM IN AMISH TRIPATHI’S MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {3},
        pages = {90-94},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=207188},
        abstract = {Amish Tripathi’s mythological fiction reshapes familiar sacred figures by placing moral choice, human limitation, and public responsibility at the centre of their greatness. This paper examines how the Shiva Trilogy and the Ram Chandra Series transform divinity from an inherited supernatural status into an ethical achievement. Shiva, Ram, Sita, and Raavan are presented as embodied individuals formed by suffering, doubt, discipline, love, anger, and the consequences of action. Through close reading of The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras, Ram: Scion of Ikshvaku, Sita: Warrior of Mithila, and Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, the paper argues that Tripathi remakes heroism as accountable agency rather than flawless power. His heroes become worthy of reverence because they choose duty under pressure, question inherited systems, accept responsibility, and remain capable of moral revision. At the same time, his treatment of Raavan shows that talent and suffering do not automatically produce virtue; greatness depends on how a person responds to injury and power. Tripathi’s popular retellings therefore bring myth into dialogue with contemporary concerns such as caste, gender, law, leadership, ecological responsibility, and social inequality. The resulting vision is accessible but ethically demanding: the divine is humanised not to diminish it, but to make moral greatness imaginable as a possibility within ordinary human life.},
        keywords = {Amish Tripathi, mythological fiction, ethical agency, heroism, dharma, humanised divinity, myth-making},
        month = {August},
        }