Gauri Gupta’s tactile Braille Ramayana brings India’s epic to blind readers, promoting inclusive storytelling, cultural access, and equal literary rights. In a country where stories from ancient epics ...
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, ...
CHENNAI : Ninety thousand words, 108 chapters, and 60-plus illustrations. Though there are several retellings of the Ramayana, renowned public speaker and scholar Dushyanth Sridhar undertook the ...
Anand Neelakantan’s ‘Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons’ unveils multiple layers of interpretations and acknowledges the perspectives and narrations offered by different versions of the epic Long before ...
Dhananjaya, the author of Dasharupaka—arguing that the sole aim of drama is pleasure—makes a passing reference to itihasa, which, in contradistinction to it has only instruction as its aim: “As for ...
Philip Lutgendorf’s translation is a timely reminder of the poetic value of the epic in the canon of global literature ‘The Sea of Separation’ was published in January 2024 by Harvard University Press ...
A Karachi-based theatre group has garnered widespread attention and acclaim by staging the Hindu epic Ramayana in Pakistan, blending cultural tradition with modern technology. Performed by the theatre ...