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TopicRamayana

Topic: Ramayana

25 Thai dancers and 6 musicians recreate Ramayana. It’s universal

Thai Chargé d'Affaires Thirapath Mongkolnavin said the Namaste Thailand Festival celebrates the “deep-rooted cultural connections that have enriched Thailand and India.”

Bhakti poets couldn’t accept Ravana touching Sita. So they created a ‘Maya’ Sita

'Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan is part of the author's effort to compile folk, oral, and textual variations of popular stories from Hindu mythology.

New book celebrates plurality of the Ramayana, invites readers to reimagine the Epic

Published by HarperCollins India, 'Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan will be released on 12 February on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

A 9th-century critic freed Ramayana of religious meanings. It was just literature for him

'A Cultural Poetics of Bhasha Literatures', an Orient BlackSwan publication, explores interrelations between languages, literatures, and cultures in South Asia.

Assamese Ramayana portrays Sita as a fierce, defiant woman who chooses dignity over kingdom

The book, Sita’s Voice in the Assamese Ramayana, by Tilottoma Misra, has verses from Madhava Kandali’s Saptakanda Ramayana and Srimanta Sankaradeva’s Uttara Kanda Ramayana.

Bollywood has a new Ramayana romance. All muscle and swagger

In the last 2 years, a slew of Ramayana-inspired films—Adipurush to Singham Again—have reimagined mythological characters as hypermasculine warriors. ‘It’s the preferred image for its politics’.

A poor woman’s lamp welcomed Ram to Ayodhya on an Amavasya night

In 'The Living Legend', Vayu Naidu retells the story of 'Ramayana', offering diverse perspectives from around the world.

Ramayana’s origins remain unknown. Archaeology so far is too limited to prove epic legends

The archaeological understanding of Ramayana and Mahabharata sites—their inception and evolution—is lost and unknown.

Ramayana is more than just an epic—a cultural language that connects India, Southeast Asia

Ramayana took such a strong hold over the cultures of Southeast Asia that a temple dedicated to Valmiki was built in Champa, the only temple of its kind in the 7th century CE.

Why does Ramcharitmanas have a crow narrator? Bhushundi is Tulsidas’ alter ego

Scholar Philip Lutgendorf brought a unique perspective on the centuries-old text by Awadhi poet Tulsidas during his talk at IIC, Delhi.

On Camera

ATM withdrawals to get costlier from 1 May. What you need to know

RBI lifted ceiling on interchange fee on ATM withdrawals through circular issued Friday. Interchange fee is amount one bank pays another to facilitate ATM transactions.

Heavy ceasefire violation along LoC as Pakistan Army patrol intrusion sets off mine blast, India retaliates

Anti-infiltration mine triggered by intrusion in Krishna Ghati Sector followed by unprovoked firing by Pakistan Army, to which Indian troops responded in 'controlled & calibrated manner'.

Thank you Trump for putting tariff gun to India’s head. That’s the only way we’d be forced to reform

Trump threatening to pull the trigger might be just what is needed to wake up India’s self-congratulatory establishment from its headline-managing fantasies.