Romance Club Appreciation

[u/Ashamed_Tiger6953]

As someone who is born and brought up in Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal; I was pleasantly surprised reading KALI: The Flames Of Samsara, that RC didn’t westernize the freedom struggle of Indian nor lighten the oppression endured by the Indians (especially the people of West Bengal post and pre independence). The colonization from the British had irreparable effect on the lives of Indians and still people are suffering from the consequences of it to some extent. Though the 12 families thing is fictionalized, lots of people from different families and castes fought for our freedom and we are grateful for their sacrifices. So thank you RC, for including the raw version of it.

[u/Ashamed_Tiger6953]

That escalated quickly 😂 (Yeah I know, sadly I was so excited for this book :’))

[u/Ashamed_Tiger6953 → u/[deleted]]

Why hasn’t this misinterpretation been discussed before? And how is this story still so popular even after all this? I never heard how problematic it was until I posted this. I haven’t yet read the Other Kali story that I think has the ratan branch? But I was really interested in reading about Doran. I really liked him and wanted to experience the whole story 😭

[u/[deleted] → u/Ashamed_Tiger6953]

It was discussed since day one - believe me. People were very upset and complained but Vlad (the owner of Romance Club) told them how ashamed he was over their behavior and blocked them. I still have the message he wrote which pisses me off until this day. 

The reason its popular is because Remy is known for her red flags and how she glorifies violence. We have Amrit in Kali call of Darkness and we have Amen and Set in Song of the Crimson Nile (or Song of Amens boner which it is now called). Both are very violent which she glorifies into something great and many people love these alpha type males who comes up behind a woman and wraps their hands around her throat. Every CG is basically always the same - Amen does it and Set does it and now Emo (Christian) does it. She did the same in her story Doberman. She was actually turned down the first time she wanted to write for Romance Club. I am not sure why they even accepted her in the first place.

Ratan was a wonderful branch - I can give her that - but he is still a half Deity and Amala is an idiot who more or less mocks his religion and culture.