One student’s research paper attempts to link classical thought with contemporary Indian foreign policy, another uses ...

The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are often seen as two separate epics, but many Hindu traditions and scholars believe they ...

Students at Nalanda University are producing research that applies frameworks from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and classical ...

Among all the extraordinary figures in Hindu tradition, Hanuman occupies a uniquely powerful place because he appears not in ...

“In India and in Southeast Asia, no one ever reads The Ramayana and The Mahabharata for the first time,” wrote the Indian poet and scholar A.K. Ramanujan. The scope and influence of “The Ramayana” ...

For generations, the Ramayana has existed in Indian homes almost by default. Children grow up hearing parts of the story ...

The author does acknowledge some limitations late in the book: his three disclaimers refer to geography, theory vs practice, and context ...

Begin at the beginning: "The Mahabharata" is the longest — at 1.8 million words gathered into couplets — and among the oldest recorded epic cycles in human history. One of the two primary Sanskrit ...

Gorakhpur , Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday drew parallels between the characters of Ramayana and contemporary social evils in his Vijayadashami speech, and also hailed the ...