| Hey Ram: Artwork by Neelkant Choudhary
ASHUTOSH BHARDWAJ / last updated at 10:58 am
If Tulsidas made Ram a self-effacing family man and king to be worshipped, the Ayodhya movement lent him a political identity. Tulsidas’s Ram was a stoic and gentle being. L.K. Advani’s Ram is an electoral warrior.
TESTIMONIES ON RAM: WHO IS RAM? WHOSE RAM?
SACHIN KHUTWALKAR/ last updated at 8:20 am
Popular in the Konkan belt, Dashavatars are a traditional theatrical presentation of dramatic scenes, which include any one of the ten avatars of Vishnu. Rama is regarded as one of Vishnu’s most prominent avatars… the one who Sachin was supposed to play, but ended up in battle against.
RADHA VISHWANATH/ last updated at 11:14 am
Then he saw it coming—a strange and immensely powerful missile that Rama released from his bow. Its head seemed as if it was the sun itself rushing at him. Its tail too was different from that of any arrow he had ever seen. Was it the wind propelling the sun, or was it a snake pushing the sun? Whatever it was, Ravana instinctively knew that this...
K. MUTHULEKSHMI/ last updated at 10:56 am
If one looks at the oral traditions of the Ramayan and Mahabharat in Malayalam, one can see continuities—as they were orally conveyed, enacted and performed in many forms, folk and classical, some of them assuming the written form in later periods.
Since everything starts with the mind, we’ll start with a mental sport. There seems to be a consensus that chess was played during the era of Lord Ram.
AKSHAY SAWAI/ last updated at 10:52 am
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Lesson On Environment From Ramayan
Lesson On Environment From RamayanThe epic of Ramayan whose multiple renditions are known for the proverbial and more obvious battle of good versus evil also contains embedded narratives about the importance of ecology MAYABHUSHAN NAGVENKAR/ last updated at 6:50 pm
Since everything starts with the mind, we’ll start with a mental sport. There seems to be a consensus that chess was played during the era of Lord Ram.
AKSHAY SAWAI/ last updated at 10:52 am
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Lesson On Environment From Ramayan
Lesson On Environment From RamayanThe epic of Ramayan whose multiple renditions are known for the proverbial and more obvious battle of good versus evil also contains embedded narratives about the importance of ecology MAYABHUSHAN NAGVENKAR/ last updated at 6:50 pm
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Amid negative sentiments in the crypto market, the NFT creators and other industry stakeholders are hopeful of a positive comeback.
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Amid negative sentiments in the crypto market, the NFT creators and other industry stakeholders are hopeful of a positive comeback.
HARSH KUMAR / last updated at 9:45 am
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Bitcoin (BTC) was up by 0.11 per cent, Ethereum (ETH) rose 0.17 per cent, and Solana was down by 3.1 per cent. Quant (QNT) was the top gainer with 5.95 per cent gains.
OUTLOOK MONEY TEAM/ last updated at 9:37 am
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With more and more governments showing interest in central bank digital coins (CBDCs), we explore how these coins might impact your life and whether the technology is viable.
NEELANJIT DAS/ last updated at 8:46 am
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The Enforcement Directorate has frozen cryptocurrencies worth Rs 47.64 lakh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act following an investigation into a mobile gaming application. Spain’s largest telecom company has tied up with a Spanish crypto exchange
OUTLOOK MONEY/ last updated at 4:19 pm
