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Ramayan on Doordarshan: Director Dibakar Banerjee looks back at the time that laid the ground for today

May 15, 2020 12:27 pm

In the midst of a pandemic that levels all — the chosen and the downtrodden — many of us fantasise about a return to a golden, simple past, but that leapfrogs over the reality of caste

Ramayan: Look at the show from the moral prism, not religious

May 15, 2020 12:24 pm

Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan (1987) was an unprecedented landmark in the DD era. As the record-breaking epic is all set to be re-telecast from this morning, here's rewinding to the time when Lord Ram's morality tale brought India to a standstill.

Dipika Chikhlia on Ramayan rerun: Don't know if people will have the patience for it

May 15, 2020 12:23 pm

Actor Dipika Chikhlia on playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, the show's rerun on Doordarshan and more.

Ram Ram, India: The return of Ramayana, the return of the 1980s Sundays

March 27, 2020 6:22 pm

Ramanand Sagar’s epic will be back on Doordarshan from March 28 onwards. This time we will get to see it in the morning as well as evening (9-10 am and 9-10 pm).

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Light and Life

October 29, 2019 3:58 pm

On Diwali, readings of the Ramayana show us the light, and warn us against darkness. Listen, first, to Sita in Dandakaranya, counselling Rama.

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Did a strong sense of morality make Vibhishana the first 'anti-national'?

October 27, 2019 7:27 am

Every regime insists that the praja, or citizens, stand by its regressions from the founding ideals of the republic in the name of nationalism.

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Ravana was a spectacular king. He just fell for the wrong girl

October 28, 2019 10:50 am

The mists of mythology, history and conspiracy theories render him elusive. Yet, in Sri Lanka, the search for Ravana remains a quest for validation.

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Long ago, by the Sarayu

October 27, 2019 8:53 am

The tussle to stake ownership over Ayodhya, and define it by the Hindu-Muslim question, has concealed the myriad other factors that have gone into making the city and, by implication, India.

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Why we need to remember the civilised Rama, and not the angry one

October 28, 2019 10:51 am

Rama is eulogised as Maryada Purushottama, the supremely civilised being, by the poet, for constructing the Rama rajya. Sita, his loving wife, on the other hand, personifies nature.

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Mythology will not remember Kaikeyi kindly. But what if she was just playing her part?

October 28, 2019 10:49 am

Mythology will not remember me kindly. Everyone needed a fall guy and that was me. Kaikeyi.

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Looking back at Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan

March 28, 2020 8:45 am

Before you get to experience the epic TV show from March 28, here are some posters and photos of Doordarshan's Ramayana to take you on a nostalgia ride.

The tattooed rebels: Chhattisgarh's Ramnamis fight caste with full-bodied 'Ram Ram' tattoos

January 13, 2016 9:10 am

The Ramnami Samaj is a religious movement founded by Scheduled Caste Ram devotees in the late 19th century in Chhattisgarh. Denied entry to temples and forced to use separate wells, these low-caste Hindus first tattooed their bodies and faces more than 100 years ago as an act of defiance and devotion.