A Study on women characters portrayed in the Rāmāyaṇa
1. Introduction and scope Rāmāyaṇa is one of the first works in the history of Sanskrit literature to have introduced such a wide all-encompassing vision into life through family and societal ideals. With specific More...
Hanuman’s Strength is Awesomeness not Militancy
Hashtag #BajrangiTwitter is trending on Twitter, thanks to article in The Wire that talks of “militant Hinduism”. After this article was published, social media is seeing an upsurge of Hanuman Consciousness More...
Rediscovering Rama (Part-II)
[contextly_sidebar id=”BQzPyGmN5Q8HcvPd5atWwDe3IPqepls3″] Even if, for the sake of argument, we do take into account the interpolation of the Uttara Kanda as part of the Ramayana, the story of Sita’s More...
Honoring our Gurus: Learning from the life accounts of Rishis-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”Zn5rVqu4gtXwYYvWaNOqI2cWIfrWk9l1″] In the previous article, I sketched the life accounts of Rishis like Bharadvāja, Agastya, Bhrigu, Dadhīchi, Pippalāda, Āruṇī, and Mudgala More...
Kalidasa’s portraits of the life of Rishis and Hermitages
[contextly_sidebar id=”9VkoqSIqXpyK6l9rpm0FvBY2Aov2cCr4″] Kalidasa has probably provided us with the finest pictures of the simple, unsullied and pure life led by our Rishis in hermitages. These pictures More...
Behind the mask of the three hundred Ramayanas
Note: This is a translation of a November 2011 article by Shatavadhani Dr. R Ganesh in Kannada Prabha. Translation by Sandeep Balakrishna. There has been widespread and intense debate over A.K. Ramanujan’s essay More...