#HumansofLiterature: A thread
By the age of 8, @samarni was already writing and illustrating her 1st book, The Mahabharata: A Child’s View.
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Released in 1996, it went on to win the Elsa Morante Literary Award. It then went on to be translated in seven languages and sold 50,000 copies worldwide.

As an adult, she has written two books based on the Ramayana. The first, Sita's Ramayana, is a graphic novel developed in collaboration with Patua artist Moyna Chitrakar.

Her second Ramayana adaptation is The Missing Queen, a Speculative fiction mythological thriller. It was published by Penguin/Zubaan in 2013.

The Prince, her latest book, is the culmination of a five-year journey spent studying Ilango Adigal's Silappatikaram. It was the year 2014 and the Nirbhaya case had taken center-stage, unleashing a wave of wrath from women across the country.

Arni watched this unfold, disturbed by the tragedy of what had taken place and staggered by the collective fury. It led to what she calls an obsession with Silappatikaram, the Sangam period epic, a story of love, betrayal, grief, and above all, wrath.