Kalidas
A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth. The Maharaja of Thejavathi has a snobbish daughter, Vidhyakumari, of marriageable age. One of his court ministers' would like her to b…
Kalidas
A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth. The Maharaja of Thejavathi has a snobbish daughter, Vidhyakumari, of marriageable age. One of his court ministers' would like her to be his daughter-in-law, but she refuses, and her wrath knows no end when she is tricked into marrying a lowly, naive, and illiterate youth. How will she adjust to life and continue being a Rajkumari constitutes the rest of the story. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) This tells the familiar tale of Kalidas, the legendary 3rd-C. Sanskrit poet and playwright. A minister at the court of King Vijayavarman of Thejavathi wants Princess Vidhyakumari (Rajalakshmi) to marry his son. She refuses and the minister tricks her into marrying a cowhand. The duped princess invokes the help of Kali, who appears to the couple and endows the cowhand with literary talent, allowing him to become Kalidas (Venkatesan). —Sujit R. Varma
Kalidas
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A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth. The Maharaja of Thejavathi has a snobbish daughter, Vidhyakumari, of marriageable age. One of his court ministers' would like her to be his daughter-in-law, but she refuses, and her wrath knows no end when she is tricked into marrying a lowly, naive, and illiterate youth.
How will she adjust to life and continue being a Rajkumari constitutes the rest of the story. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) This tells the familiar tale of Kalidas, the legendary 3rd-C. Sanskrit poet and playwright.
A minister at the court of King Vijayavarman of Thejavathi wants Princess Vidhyakumari (Rajalakshmi) to marry his son. She refuses and the minister tricks her into marrying a cowhand. The duped princess invokes the help of Kali, who appears to the couple and endows the cowhand with literary talent, allowing him to become Kalidas (Venkatesan).
—Sujit R. Varma.