New Delhi: Though demon king Ravana is the prime antagonist character in the epic Ramayana, yet most of the people are not aware of his background, his conquests and his erudite knowledge. To put it ...

Ravana was a king of demons with ten heads and 20 hands according to Hindu mythology. Though demon king Ravana is the prime antagonist character in the epic Ramayana, yet most of the people are not ...

Anand Neelakantan tells Aparna Sundaresan of YouthInc just why he chose to narrate the Ramayana from the point of view of its villain in Asura -- Tale of the Vanquished: The Story of Ravana and His ...

Amour and contempt, fury and love, hope and despair – several conflicting emotion flickers across Ravana’s fiery face as he tries every trick in the book to impress Sita in the Udyana Pravesham ...

In modern Sri Lanka, there has been a movement to revive Ravana as a cult figure, who represents Sinhala or Sri Lankan nationalism, writes PK Balachandran. The Ramayana is not part of the mainstream ...

When the media reported that the Sri Lankan Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation has issued a newspaper advertisement in Sinhala urging people to share documents, books, and research material on ...

Greater Noida: As towering effigies of Ravana are set to go up in flames across the country on October 2, the people of Bisrakh village near Greater Noida will mark Dussehra very differently. Here, ...

Ravana in love, portrayed in the nuanced highly sophisticated abhinaya expression of Kathakali is a unique aesthetic treat that I recently experienced at IIM Bangalore. I have seen occasional ...

Think Ravana and you think evil. A terrible looking demon with horns, filled with lust, lording over his pitiable subjects. That is what history has led us to believe and that is what majority of the ...