Saraswati (840) (Amar Chitra Katha) [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2000] Reena I Puri

by (Amar Chitra Katha Comics)

Saraswati

Genres: Mythology, Comics, Graphic Novels, Childrens, History, Drama, Indian Literature

32 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2012

Reviews

[Ritu]

Starting the year right.

[Namratha]

Today is Vasant (Basant) Panchami, which heralds the onset of Spring. It is a day dedicated to Goddess Saraswati, who is our divine Lady of wisdom, knowledge, language, music and creative arts. Since today celebrates the birth of our erudite Goddess, it felt apt to dip into this quick Amar Chitra Katha retelling of her legends.

Be it her origin story or how she saved the world from the fury of Vadavagni (the all-destroying fire) with Lord Shiva or how she became a holy river that also goes by the name Nanda or how she got caught in the bitter battle between two mighty sages…all are covered here in succinct ACK style.

[prakash]

Ok Story telling but good artwork

The new artwork of ACK is really good.

But what is with the biceps and six packs of even rishis, munis, Lord Shiva, the devas etc, this six packs or chiseled body is more of modern western concept and is not found in our scriptures. The old artwork of Founder Editor of ACK was more closer to the scriptures. Even the very slim trim zero figure and flat tummy of devis and ladies does not find a place in the scriptures they are fuller though not fat/chubby.

Still thank you for bringing out our scriptures to life in such wonderful way.

[Girija Mishra]

Good book

Good book and quite informative. Loved reading this to my daughter who's 6 years old. Would recommend parents to read it to kids so that they learn history.

[Srikanth Sreedharan]

ACK into Graphic Novels...

ACK moving to Graphic Novels

Good artwork...story well told...More details on Pushkar would have been welcome. Worth the read. Enjoyed.

[Pranav]

This book has covered all the major achievements of the goddess Saraswati whom we worship today. They could have added the time period after which Saraswati was freed from her curse because of sage Vishwamitra. Everything was alright but there is also a legend which states that Shiva was angry with the dishonest reply of Brahma, and he called Virabhadra to cut Brahma's fourth head and he cursed him that he will not be worshipped in any form on this earth. Overall, this book was good and I totally recommend it

[Aditi Ramaswamy]

Although the writing is polished and the art is pretty, this comic is obsessed with making every “good” character white-skinned, as well as with perpetrating anti-feminist, casteist, Hindutva views of many myths. I used to love these when I was younger, but ACK really needs to make some drastic changes in order to be more inclusive.

[Avinash K]

Bad...

Weird artwork and confused story telling. Maya's story has been mixed with Saraswati. The drawings are mix of stylised and caricatures. Please give this a miss...

[K]

We all know Goddess Saraswati as the goddess of knowledge and Wisdom but I was unaware of the other stories- the story of vadavagni, the strory of how Saraswati river came to be amongst others mentioned on this book.
The illustrations are beautiful and the stories are crisp in true Amar chitra Katha style.
The book ends with a description of Goddess Saraswati that describes how her appearance hints at the Goddess's qualities- I never looked at it that way.
I do wonder if Hindu mythology has been simplified over the ages into tales that our simpleton minds can make better sense of ?

[Gurudatt Rao]

Insightful Brief

A compilation of stories from origin to different stories of Goddess Saraswati brings the nostalgia of childhood back..A read for anyone trying to understand the Gods/Goddess in Hindu Mythology.

[Prashant Chaudhari]

Narration and Images are both incredible

Liked Pictures and presentation.
Stories were told with grandeur they deserve.
Ending was abrupt and did not give any account of her disappearance.
A good read nonetheless along with a good sight

[Siddhartha Gogoi]

Saraswati Maa

A must read. Narration is lucid seamlessly depicting the many twists in the mythology about Saraswati Maa. The art is phenomenal, the lettering beautiful and perfect layout and panel placement. All in all, it is a great read, entertaining, educating and enlightening.

[Sheetal]

Good

It was nice reading it, I didn't knew ome story narrated in the book. Happy to read about Saraswati Maiya. Short and pointed stories. Graphics enhanced the experience for a child to explain the story in fine manner.

[Nidhi Chopra]

Good one.

[Anjalica]

Love the stories

[Savita Ramsumair]

Informative

A very informative book on Devi Saraswati. Once again the author has made UT easy for kids to understand the story.

[Vaishnavi Rai]

I was desparetly trying to read it and it was rear to find , finally read it . Its a beautiful book

[Ravi Kumar Dandapani]

Nice

[Krishnan Nair]

While I did know some aspects of the story of Saraswati, I didn't know all of it. I kind of wonder which other stories of Saraswati are present in mythology.

[Rajesh Tripathi]

I learned a lot from this book . Thank you Amar Chitra Katha for writing. This book . Keep publishing these kind of books

[Sumon Sarkar]

Always wanted to know about the origin and the river. I've got enough details now.

If you're reading my review then you should read that book too.

[Subbu Subhash]

Good

[Vidya]

It’s a good book, would recommend for children

[Pritam Kayal]

Concise representation

The stories on and about Goddess Saraswati and her interaction of both the heavenly and mortal world has been presented in this book very concisely.

[Pankaj Pandey]

Simple and quick read. Informative about Sarasvati ji's birth, form and blessings

[Kishore]

It's nice

It's nice to read and inspires us to be peaceful and kind as Godess Saraswati. I truly enjoyed reading this book.

[Surya]

This is uncomfortably patriarchal or maybe it is just written that way

[Pallavi]

Very nicely written but even more beautiful is the illustrations . They are really so breathtaking

[nibha ⋆˚꩜｡]

didn't enjoy this one as much as i thought i would 💔 that one god doing the 👍🏼 on page 21 though 😭

[Akira]

Got to know about the Goddess of Knowledge! I’m grateful!