“I recognize what they are singing. It’s not Valmiki’s great epic! They’re singing the pages I’d written in my lonely darkness, out of the need to give voice to all of us who were pushed to the edges. Misjudged, misunderstood. My truth, and the truth of women, whose lives touched mine for better or worse. Their laughter and tears, their triumph and suffering, their blessings and curses.” – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Women in history and mythology have rarely been portrayed, if at all mentioned elaborately, with honesty, vulnerability, free of prejudice and crediting to the successes they have always deserved. We know of Draupadi and Sita as being dutiful wives…