As the vibrant festivities of Dussehra unfold across the nation, especially in north India, with joyous chants of ‘‘Bhagwan Ram Chandra Ki Jai’’ and towering effigies of Raavan going up in flames, an ...

The Ram-Raavan yuddh (battle) had ended. The mighty Lord of Lanka had fallen to the all-powerful Brahmastra. He had slipped to the ground from his chariot and lay amidst the blood and gore of the ...

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 ...

The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in ...

Shrimad Ramayan explores the powerful saga of Lord Ram and Sita, currently separated with Sita living in a forest ashram with her sons, Luv and Kush, who are unaware of their lineage. Actor Praneet ...

Long before streaming platforms began testing our nerves in unimaginable ways, Ashutosh Rana was already haunting the nation’s collective imagination with some of Bollywood’s most chilling ...