An Anthology of Diverse Perspectives edited by Padmashri Shovana Narayan features contributions from sixteen esteemed writers, scholars, historians, and thought leaders including Sharon Lowen, Lady ...

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.

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Arun Ganapathy visits the home of Rama s biographer in Varanasi and finds that the Ramayana s key characters are living entities for the localsAt the end of the famed ghats of Varanasi there s one gha ...

Not many Indian tourists are aware that Thailand boasts of one of the largest open-air museums in the world. It lies just an ...

Dr Anthony P Stone Publisher: Pippa Rann Price: Rs 499/- Astrology, a science with deep historical roots, continues to ...

The Ramayana has inspired countless artistic expressions. And among them, the Carnatic composition Bhavayami Raghuramam by Swati Thirunal is known for its conci ...

The movie was screened in India at the 24th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in 1993 but wasn't released in cinema ...

While its exact origin is unknown, legend holds that King Janak, the ruler of the Mithila region in the 8th or 7th century BCE, requested this new form of painting to capture his daughter Sita's ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and religious appropriation has entrenched divisions and exclusion in Indian ...