Ramayana

The War of Dharma

Gautam Chikermane

Amish’s fourth book in the Ram Chandra series takes contemporary questions to the ancient battlefields

Ram Setu: The Shallow Sea Bridge

Madhavankutty Pillai

The underwater land strip between India and Sri Lanka shuffles between myth, history, commerce and, now, Bollywood

Atmanirbhar Heroes

Kaveree Bamzai

Mirroring the flourishing genre of Indian epic fiction in literature, the film industry hopes to bring to the big screen these made-in-India offerings

The Man and the Ideal

Bibek Debroy

Arshia Sattar brings out the many shades of dharma in the Ramayana

Exile and Kingdom

Arshia Sattar

Returning to the epics to find pandemic metaphors not in war but in acts of generosity and kindness

Sudasa: India’s First War Hero

Nanditha Krishna

He drove away north-western tribes, which have attacked India over millennia, from the river Ravi

The Untold Story: Ramayan and the Dravidian Connection

S Sivadas

CN Annadurai and M Karunanidhi were behind the serial success of Ramayan-inspired family movie hits across languages in the 1950s and the 1960s

The Relevance of Lord Rama

Lakshmi Bayi

On why the quest for the ideal man ended with Him

The Ram temple offers itself as an opportunity for a new generation to think for themselves about this wave of history and faith that has washed in, sweeping away a great amount of historical angst and refuse