The Tenth Head

In The Tenth Head, the ten heads of buy canada generic levitra no prescription Ravana become a metaphor for the tension that exists between the individual buy canada generic levitra no prescription and the collective. In the play, nine of the ten heads of Ravana are a company who are quite happy to conform to a common way of dreampharmaceuticals com levitra online seeing things. Their individuality is limited to each representing one of the nine emotions/ bhavas, from the traditional Indian aesthetic. The tenth however dreampharmaceuticals com levitra online is the odd man out.

In buy levitra discount the Ramayana, Ravana the King of Lanka, is the main antagonist. He kidnaps the protagonist’s wife, Sita, in an act of revenge and with the intention of provoking a war; buy levitra discount or, as in some other versions, out of helpless lust. He is said where to buy levitra cheap to have captured the kingdom of Lanka from his half brother Kubera, robbed him of his wealth and relieved him of his famous flying chariot. But his villainy is tempered by certain other qualities he generic levitra from canada possesses. He is a great where to buy levitra cheap ruler, a scholar, a player of the Veena and a powerful worshipper of Siva.

Indeed he is said to have composed the Siva Tandava generic levitra from canada Stotra. In folk, popular and classical art he is depicted with ten heads; and sometimes nine, the tenth having been sacrificed to Siva. Another version says he sacrificed all ten heads to Siva in the hope of receiving the boon of immortality, which he was given along with the return of his heads.

The Tenth Head does not fit in graphically or psychologically with the other nine heads.  He does not want viagra cialis levitra wholesale to dumb down so as to be the average man in the collective.  And he believes that nine heads on a torso make greater geometric and aesthetic sense than ten. So tentatively he looks either for independence from the others or failing that an equitable relation with them so that sale cialis he can give free expression to his unique thoughts. He asks a group of artists to work around the conundrum of his find viagra without prescription visibility in graphic representation.

However it becomes increasingly apparent that the tenth head is quite different from the other nine; for he has a totally unique take on Ravana’s actions with regard to Kubera, war, flying and viagra cialis levitra wholesale Sita, among other issues. In the end he quietly finds his own solution to the problem, while the artists highhandedly impose their skewered interpretation of the ten heads on the world and posterity.