Deified The Legacy of Yesterday is a novel by Bhanu Srivastav​  Deified portrays the story of a kind girl named Sanvi. She gets married to a successful Engineer and has great optimism and hope for the future. However, marriage is not what she expects. Her life is turned inside out without love, and her struggles begin.

With themes ranging from patriarchy to love, marriage, and depression, Bhanu Srivastav brilliantly exposes us to the challenges young married women face in modern Indian society and how they try to cope with them. These women have varying degrees of success in managing the patriarchal society's demands in a modern setting. Those who are unable to find a balance often become depressed. Deified is indeed a compelling modern tale.

Sanvi is often at crossroads with her husband despite her honest efforts to make her marriage work. They have two children together. She is eventually evicted from her matrimonial home with only her youngest child in her custody. On her way to her parents, she is trapped in a mysterious house, which the author uses as a literary vehicle to deliver beautiful, imaginative work. Deified is indeed one book that should find its way to your reading list.

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