The recent debate on the movie Aadipurush brings to mind the genre of Indian English literature based on stories from our revered epics Ramayana and Mahabharata as also from the Puranas. It should be a matter of pride for us to see such stories getting widely circulated through fictional works of our own countrymen, but sadly, these stories are being re-told in a way that creates a totally different picture of revered characters and their actions.