ADVENTURES OF MAYA is an engrossing story in COMICS format of a 12-year-old girl and her dog, Bangle. Maya is going home after buying medicines for her grandfather when she and the dog get magically transported to the Age of the Ramayana.
Maya comes face to face with Ravana’s brother, Kumbhakarna who is on a rampage because a splitting headache is preventing him from falling asleep. Maya gives him a couple of aspirins. He gets immediate relief and promptly falls asleep.
Kumbhakarna’s personal physician, Dr Kala Miri is impressed by Maya’s medical skills. He invites her to his house, hoping to persuade her to reveal some of her medicinal formulas. But no sooner have they reached his house than the Queen’s soldiers burst in and take custody of the girl.
Queen Mandodari has a magic mirror in which she can see all that is happening in her kingdom. She saw Maya bring Kumbhakarna under control and wants to talk to her as her own husband, Ravana, is having bouts of insomnia.
Dr Kala Miri helps Maya escape from the soldiers but then she is captured by an evil sorceress, the White Witch. The White Witch has witnessed the arrival of Maya in Lanka through her crystal ball. She knows that Maya has come from the future and wants to find out from her the outcome of the war that is looming over Lanka.
A chase develops in which Maya is pursued by Dr Kala Miri, the Queen’s soldiers and the White Witch’s pet python, Warra-Warra. Dodging all of them, Maya finally arrives in the capital, at the time that Hanuman is setting fire to the city.
The comics are illustrated by Gajoo Tayde who is known for his clean line and tidy, uncluttered artworks. The writer, Luis Fernandes is author of ‘Guest who Came to Dinner’ published by Ratna Sagar and several several Amar Chitra Katha titles and former editor of India’s only comics magazine, Tinkle.
Maya comes face to face with Ravana’s brother, Kumbhakarna who is on a rampage because a splitting headache is preventing him from falling asleep. Maya gives him a couple of aspirins. He gets immediate relief and promptly falls asleep.
Kumbhakarna’s personal physician, Dr Kala Miri is impressed by Maya’s medical skills. He invites her to his house, hoping to persuade her to reveal some of her medicinal formulas. But no sooner have they reached his house than the Queen’s soldiers burst in and take custody of the girl.
Queen Mandodari has a magic mirror in which she can see all that is happening in her kingdom. She saw Maya bring Kumbhakarna under control and wants to talk to her as her own husband, Ravana, is having bouts of insomnia.
Dr Kala Miri helps Maya escape from the soldiers but then she is captured by an evil sorceress, the White Witch. The White Witch has witnessed the arrival of Maya in Lanka through her crystal ball. She knows that Maya has come from the future and wants to find out from her the outcome of the war that is looming over Lanka.
A chase develops in which Maya is pursued by Dr Kala Miri, the Queen’s soldiers and the White Witch’s pet python, Warra-Warra. Dodging all of them, Maya finally arrives in the capital, at the time that Hanuman is setting fire to the city.
The comics are illustrated by Gajoo Tayde who is known for his clean line and tidy, uncluttered artworks. The writer, Luis Fernandes is author of ‘Guest who Came to Dinner’ published by Ratna Sagar and several several Amar Chitra Katha titles and former editor of India’s only comics magazine, Tinkle.
