The Ramayana has a deep and irremovable emboss on the culture (heritage) of the world and the Indian subcontinent. Tales of Lord Ram, Mother Sita and the Ramayana have illumined our cultural and relig...

Normal School Silchar under the Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies has collected more than 500 very rare and old manuscripts which will be preserved in a special room of the school. The conten...

The Aam Aadmi Party’s public awakening to Hanuman has outlived the Delhi elections.An AAP legislator who is also the secretary of the party’s Delhi unit has announced that he will organise monthly...

The antagonism between the country’s two principal political parties is now manifest on festivals too — the Congress on Vijaya Dashami portrayed its fight with the BJP as a battle between good and...

At that time, the effulgent king, the slayer of his enemies, was conducting a great sacrifice for the birth of a son. A huge being of immense strength rose out of Dasharatha’s sacrificial fire, hera...

Since its inception in 2010, the Amma Tell Me More series has grown to be a stellar collection of 12 books by Bhakti Mathur. Exploring a wide variety of topics, from festivals to gods, the series is o...

When Anita Bose first arrived in Thailand she was surprised to see how integral to its culture the Ramayana was. Buddhism is followed by 95 per cent of the population and yet it was, and still is, com...

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party regime’s obsession with the epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, is well known. The re-telecast of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan and BR Chopra’s Mahabharat — commissio...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration led by governor Satya Pal Malik on Tuesday withdrew an order directing schools and colleges to consider buying copies of the Bhagvad Gita and the Ramayan, barely 1...

Jai Siya Ram. The sound boomed over the cacophony of the evening games and the terrified children started scampering off to a safe distance. The giant languidly lurched forward and managed to catch Ja...