My guide Najeeb asked me if I wanted to watch a performance based on the Ramayana. I told her it is like carrying coal to Newcastle. “But you don’t get to see the Singapore version of the Ramayana in ...

My guide Najeeb asked me if I wanted to watch a performance based on the Ramayana. I told her it is like carrying coal to Newcastle. “But you don’t get to see the Singapore version of the Ramayana in ...

The Ramayana-based folklore, bas-reliefs and art forms in Southeast Asian countries certainly prove the close cultural connection between India and Southeast Asia." ...

Ram was as much a hero for Buddhists of Southeast Asia as he was for the Hindus of South Asia. ... This story is not found in the Ramayana that Indians are familiar with.

This article is based on the research he’s conducting for his next book, a non-fiction work on the versions of the Ramayana across Southeast Asia to be published by Penguin Random House in 2025/26.

In India and in Southeast Asia, no one hears the Ramayana for the first time, said the folklorist AK Ramanujan. “The stories are there ‘always already’.” Reflecting on the pervasiveness of ...

Event details about Film Premiere of "Ramayana: The Great Epic of South & South-East Asia” with Director Benoy Behl in San Francisco on December 3, 2016 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

The Ramayana found its way into the hearts of the people of Southeast Asia, where it became deeply embedded in the region's performing arts, architecture and literature.

Unlike the proliferation of merpeople as fantastical creatures in folklore and mythological traditions of other cultures, Suvannamaccha — Suvarnamatsya in Sanskrit — the Golden Mermaid is ...