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Ravan: Enemy of Aryavarta is Amish's third installment in the Ram Chand series that explores and redefines the legendary antagonist from the popular Hindu epic Ramayana in a much more modernistic, realistic and humanist fashion to the contemporary readers in the landscape of fictitious genre of mythology. He exercises his creative license to articulate Ravan's tormented metaphorical representation of being a Naga, widely ostracised due to the I will conceived notion of evil karmic interpretation manifesting in his present life. Amish opens the door to multifaceted conceptualisation, misconception and understanding of karma and its nature as a belief and applied theory in the larger philosophical framework of the Hindu way of life. Ravan's disillusionment about Dharma and its neurosis manifest and reverberate at the objectively universal and individual level in the form of adharma and Swadharma, the ongoing negotiation of an individual with an established belief and his perception of it. Precisely explored, contemplated and heavily debated between him and Vedavati. In Amish's caricature, Ravan symbolises the modern man caught in worldly Maya, the materialistic slew of human existence that corrupts the soul. It acts as the fulcrum in his book, balancing both karma and Dharma in the most complex and proficient manner that makes Ravan's character dynamic diabolical and engaging to answer some of the most difficult questions that are very fundamental to human nature and its conception and application in the society. This paper intertwines the concepts of Karma, Dharma and Maya, which are the tenants of the Hindu philosophical school of thought to navigate Ravan's journey in the grand landscape of the popular epic to the readers.