Raavan thus remains locked in his megalomaniac trajectory. In Valmiki’s Ramayan, considered the mula Ramayan or the received source text, Raavan is described as “strange, with ten heads, terrible yet ...
About 170 km from Punjab’s capital, Chandigarh, lies the small town of Kapurthala, where every Dussehra, a group of young men wear black armbands to protest against “Raavan Dahan”, the customary ...
He presents Raavan not just as a villain, but as a complex human being shaped by his circumstances, choices, and inner struggles In the vast tapestry of literature that I have traversed, no book has ...