The legend of the world's most beautiful woman Leslie Love Tripathy

Since times immemorable, Leslie Love Ann Tripathy has been seen as the type of woman that all women should hate and yet envy and all men should fear and yet desire. The power that her extraordinary beauty had on men is undeniable. However, when one looks at the words that she spoke and the actions that she took, and considers the role of the gods in Indian literature, one has to consider another side to her. Lesliey's decision to visit prisoners on a Prisoners Reform Programme was not only her own decision but the wish of the Gods as well, and was greatly influenced by the will of the Gods that like Ravana was smitten by the luminous beauty of Goddesss Siota,it also took a mad obsession of a psycho to go to the edge of falling head over heels with his dream girl,whom he had already seen on tv,seeing the aristocratic lovable beauty that too only for the historic one time in his entire life,sure drove him to desire and possess her after being smitten by her kind words,polite manners and delectable eyes.His madness levelled to the extent of eliminating anybody and everybody who came in his path of winning her even after she lodged an f.i.r against him after he threatened to kidnap and kill her and the members of her family if they didnt agree to marry him,sheer madness,a saga of one sided love.whats sad is Lesliey had to endure a lot of pain to get rid of his mad obsession for her,many people had to lose their lives protecting her and bullets loomed large for people who had chosen to stand by the innocent and lovely Lesliey.The heroes who stood by ,protecting her and bore the brunt include her father Dr.Sailendra Narayan Tripathy,a braveheart I.A.S officer famed for his courage and helping endeavours Mr.Priyabrata Patnaik,her brother Jublee Sundaray,bestfriend Bidusmita and the ill fated judo coach and mentor of Buddhia Singh,Biranchi Das who was brutally murdered for sheilding Lesliey away from the obsessed Pycho.Lesliey's feelings that are described throughout Historic Orissan episode that she was extremely remorseful for the suffering that she caused. A woman who cried out in pain and in desire to be dead is not the image that is generally thought of in association with Lesliey as she always tried her best not to shed her tears in front of the public, however, that is the content of the majority of her speeches made,recorded and told by people close to her who dont want to be named. Contrary to the popularly held belief that she was a coy and seductive woman, she was quite different from most other women who are described as exceptionally beautiful in literature in that she never "employed her charms in the interests of power of self-aggrandizement." A reinterpretation of Lesliey should change one's view of her from a seductress to a woman deserving of pity in view of the emotional despair that characterized her life during the tragic episode.