Myths are a rich source of moral foundation and not just ancient stories based on the early history of a group of people .Wisdom and actions of archaic men depicted in myths set multiple examples for the present. The essential statesmanship attributes of the mythological figures in human form hold a functional equivalency in the contemporary period. The retelling of Ramayana, one of the epics of India, by Amish depicts a number of situations that are handled tactfully by the mythological characters and these acts of statesmanship can be measured as essential attributes required by any successful statesman even today. Most importantly, Amish’s trilogy belongs to the genre of popular fiction and the language is simple .Such works are often taken as reading for pleasure. The paper aims to show how reading of retellings is not just confined to pleasure but it has a wider scope.
Key words: Statesmanship, archaic, relevance, retellings, moral-foundation, contemporary men
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