Valmiki

Published on 28th October, 2018, in Mumbai Mirror. There is a forest near Lucknow known as Naimisha Aranya, where it is said a long time ago a storyteller called Sauti narrated to a group of sages, who were led by Shaunaka, sacred Hindu stories that later came to be known as the Puranas. The forest witnessed other storytelling sessions – Narada who expounded bhakti lore, Luv and Kush who narrated the Ramayana to Ram himself, and the famous Mahabharata narration by Lomaharshana, whose name means one who makes your hair stand on end, and his son Ugrashrava, whose name means one with a loud voice. ..