 The Ahalya of the Tamil short story writer Ku Pa Rajagopalan (1902–44) also secretly longs for Indra and enjoys dalliance with him.Pratibha Ray's Odia novel "Mahamoha" (1997, "Great Lust") portrays an independent and nonconformist Ahalya as a tragic heroine, who offers herself to Indra so that he can fulfil his lust and she her womanhood.When Gautama persuades her to lie to society by claiming to have been raped, she debates chastity and freedom of mind with him.