Two great Indian epics begin with the same event and end with completely different moral aftertastes. In the Ramayana, exile ...

Rashi Rohatgi’s debut novel Sita in Exile is slim and elegant, delivered in lyrical prose. Sita is married and having an affair with her husband’s colleague, so there is all the intrigue of an Elena ...

In the foreword to his thought-provoking travelogue Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, Jonah Blank underlines the significance of the Ramayana of Valmiki in modern Indian culture: Imagine a story that was ...

Several films and shows have been inspired by the mythological story Ramayana, which is very much liked by the audience. One of these is Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, 1993. This is a ...

Sanjay Patel is no stranger to the fantastic. As an animator, he knows about rats with culinary dreams, furry blue monsters and armies of evil grasshoppers. But he says that some of the most fantastic ...

Every civilization remembers its past differently. Some carve it into stone. Some write it on paper. And some, like India, ...

When I was growing up, my father regaled me with stories from “The Ramayana” for years. As one of the great Hindu epics, its influence cannot be understated. Written by the poet Valmiki in Sanskrit ...