Ramayana: An 'epic' controversy - BBC News
WEBOct 19, 2011 · bbc. Many Indians have grown up on the epic's comic book version. Three years later, bowing to renewed pressure, the university's top academic body decided to take the essay out of the history...
Ramcharitmanas: The Hindu epic poem causing a political storm in …
WEBRam is revered by millions of Hindus for his sense of justice and fair play. A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India ...
The Many Criticisms of Rama and the 'Anger' of the Hindu Right
WEBHow did Rama face criticism from different perspectives in ancient and modern times? The Wire examines the Hindu right's reaction to such critiques.
Adipurush: Why audiences turned against this Bollywood epic - BBC
WEBThe makers of Adipurush say the film is inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana. The Ramayana depicts the victory of Hindu god Ram over the demon king Ravana after the latter kidnaps his wife, Sita.
Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, and criticism of the holy book
WEBJan 28, 2023 · On January 11, Bihar Education Minister Chandra Shekhar said the Ramcharitmanas “spreads hatred in society”, and that Goswami Tulsidas’s epic poem — along with the Manusmriti and M S Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thoughts — should be burned.
'Adipurush' backlash teaches us about do's and don'ts of Ramayan ...
WEBJun 26, 2023 · When Adipurush writer Manoj Muntashir was asked why he chose the much-criticised colloquial dialogues for Hanuman and other key characters in the film, he said he wanted to resonate with the young children who had never seen Ramayana onscreen. However, he failed miserably and instead ended up making the film look like a …
Ramayana ‘lives in the mind of every Indian’, but across the world …
WEBJan 12, 2024 · Linguist A K Ramanujan’s essay titled ‘Three hundred Ramayanas: Five examples and three thoughts of translation’ had triggered a controversy a few years ago when it pointed out that the list of languages in which the Ramayana has been written includes Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, …
Ramcharitmanas controversy: A dispensable shadow fight
WEBJan 26, 2023 · The suppression of the documentary depicting the Gujarat riots and the rise of Narendra Modi as a national leader and the call by an S P leader to ban Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas around the same time is a coincidence, curious or otherwise, reminding us of how intolerant we have become to criticism.
A Debate On Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas And Analysis Of Controversial …
WEBMar 9, 2023 · Outlook's Omar Rashid spoke to three senior scholars from Varanasi who shared their interpretation of certain controversial verses in the Ramcharitmanas.
Artistic freedom vs sacrilege at IIT Bombay; students fined for …
WEBA group of IIT students registered a formal complaint with the institute, saying that the play included derogatory references to Hindu beliefs, portrayed Ram as a ‘devil’ and had the actors playing...