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 ...

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.

Story by Ashwin Parijat Anshu • 1d. I n 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’.” ...

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.

Like other countries of Southeast Asia, Thailand developed its own flavouring of the Ramayana epic which became the most significant literary influence on Thai culture.

By K/Daily News Colombo, December 14: Sri Lanka is central to the Hindu epic the Ramayana, being the scene of the battle between the India ...

How the Ramayana has served as a cultural and diplomatic bridge among Southeast Asian countries Artists at the 10-day ASEAN-India Artists’ Camp in Shillong will showcase their interpretation of ...

The grand epic of India, the Ramayana, has significantly influenced not only Indian culture but also Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand. In Thailand, the Ramayana, known as Ramakien, remains ...

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