Seated in a rocking chair on the veranda, with an oil lantern on the table beside her, is Sarah Joseph. She knew nothing of marriage, love or desire. Women of her age, she says, searched for love the way people search for a gap in a wall. “Madhavikutty could write love the way she did because of the Calcutta house she grew up in and the air in it. (Photos by Sumiesh S and Sajith OK/The Indian Express) Sarah Joseph has rewritten the Ramayana from the perspective of Shurpanakha.