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Ramayana For Atheists
Atheists do not believe in God. They see themselves as scientific and rational, and find God to be a superstition…
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Ramayana’s Golden Deer
The story of the golden deer comes from the Valmiki Ramayana. In the forest chapter, Ravana tells Marichi to turn into a deer and enchant Sita and draw Ram and Lakshman out of the hermitage, leaving Sita unguarded enabling Ravana to abduct Sita…
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Ramayana in Art
People mostly talk about the oral and textual stories of the Ramayana tradition, but we …
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What Makes Ramayana “Curiously Modern”?
Ramayana is a curiously modern book, because it deals with CONSENT. Both male and female…
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Tibetan Ramayana
Published on 12th March, 2023, in Mid-day. In the early 20th century, six incomplete manuscripts …
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Ram Navami: Books about Ram and the Ramayana
This Ram Navmi, to read Devdutts books about various aspects of The Ramayana, click the links below …
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Ramayana – A tale of how Ram lived for others
The Ramayana has never been a tale of Ram’s life.It is a tale of how …
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How Ramayana and Mahabharata Spread the Idea of Dharma
The earliest Ramayana retellings do not refer to the Lakshman rekha. The earliest Mahabharata retellings do not refer to Draupadi’s vastra-haran. …
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Faithful Husbands, Faithful Wives of the Ramayana
Renuka is polluted in thought. Ahalya is polluted in body. Sita is polluted in reputation. …
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The Ramayana – A tale of how Ram lived for others
“The Ramayana has never been a tale of Ram’s life. It is a tale of how Ram lived for others. By retelling his tale, storytellers hope to inspire themselves and others to live as Ram did.” — Devdutt Pattanaik in “The Book of Ram” To read this, and Devdutts other books about various aspects of…
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Ramayana Isn’t a Lesson In History Or Geography
Published on 8th October, 2022. in Times of India. Many people see Ramayana as history. …
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Ramayana in Jataka
Published on 17th January, 2022, in Mid-day. The Ramayana story reveals the Vedic world that …
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Rama Beyond the Hindi Belt
There are several hundred Ramayanas beyond the Hindi belt, composed in the last 2,000 years, that deserve equal respect…
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The Yugas Came Later
The four yugas of Hindu mythology (Krita, Treta, Dvapara, Kali) are based on the numbers on traditional four-sided dice: four, three, two, one. They refer to the four legs of the bull of dharma…
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History of Luv-Kush
The word kushalava in Sanskrit literature like Manusmriti and Arthashastra refer to lowborn travelling entertainers. This feels strange as Kusha and Lava are the names of Ram’s twin sons — Ram who is the greatest king of Indian lore…
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Pushpak Viman Was a Wooden Peacock
Pushpak Viman of Ravana was shaped like a peacock. The origin of this idea comes from an old Sri Lankan folk tale…
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Gold Effigy of Sita and a Half-golden Mongoose
For all the violence depicted in the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, they carried a profoundly human message for the heart. It is told through the two curious often overlooked moments, one in the Ramayana, featuring a golden effigy of Sita, and one in the Mahabharata with a half-golden mongoose…
