Comments on: Rendezvous with Rama

By: Tushar Jain

Tushar Jain — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:49:00 +0000

mythology doesn’t interests me much, just because of this stupidity! what an awesome write!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:07:00 +0000

Thanks Shoba.

Agree with you on Ravana. In Hindu myth, characters do good and bad things, but are not absolutely good and bad in essence. Rama’s deification and Ravana’s denigration seems to have started with Tulsi’s Ramayana, a devotional work that removed much of the subtlety from the original. Tulsi’s Ramayana is remarkably dull; its hero has no flaws, its villains no virtue and every open-ended question is relentlessly closed.

By: Shoba

Shoba — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:28:00 +0000

A fascinating analysis. What is your take on the Ashok Banker Ramayana series? I was saddned by the abs demonization of Ravana, casting him as the Satan of Hinduism which is incorrect as he had many great qualities too, starting with his love of the veena.
best regards,
Shoba Sharad Rajgopal

By: Polypubs

Polypubs — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:54:25 +0000

My dear Anil, what has happened to you? We hope you will continue to let fall some crumbs from your table- if only to for old dogs like me.
Perhaps the reason for your failing us lies in the failure of your reception of the Ramayana.
It's a story. Kant is a lie- deontology is a lie-but an interesting lie, one whose immediate and obvious logical flaws disclose... a story- not the Divine Comedy of the Ramayana but the human, all too human, tragedy of Received Wisdom- the Viceroyalty of the unco guid.
Had you remained in Kerala, with your undoubted gifts, you would no doubt be a drunkard.
But, THEN, you'd have the Ramayana.
Now, you have but your gifts- and none to gift them to- a Karna doomed to best Krishna- a coagulation of good karma permitted no lightning strike of sphota.

The Ramayana is not a story about a guy who discovers he is God. Like in the Bhagvad Gita, what happens in the Ramayana is a cosmic sacrifice.
Krishna shows his visvarupa in the Gita. Why?. Well- that's the way the unkillable, kill themselves.
Rama acts like he don't know Sita in his heart and can't be separated from him.
My parents are in my heart and can't be separated from me. India is in your heart and can't be separated from you. Fuck you're talking bro?
Why bring fucking Shakespeare into it? There is a way to make Shakespeare meaningful- it is by referring back to the literature of 2 centuries before him. A literature which more than any other (I'm aware of) exploited the Augitinan notion that all things are mirrors of all things and the book, that darpan mediating bimba and pratibimba.

Boss, get right with the Ramayana and return to delight us with your writing.

By: Anilmenon

Anilmenon — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:39:32 +0000

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By: anilMenon

anilMenon — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:03:00 +0000

Thanks Anurag.

By: Anurag Kumar

Anurag Kumar — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:00:24 +0000

This post puts Ramayana in a completed new/ different perspective for me. The best article/ explanation of Ramayana I have read till date. And it definitely makes (more) sense.

By: anilMenon

anilMenon — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:58:42 +0000

Thanks Anish.

By: Anish

Anish — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:28:52 +0000

Brilliant article. Nice work!

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Mirror Images | m a n u s c r y p t s — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:03:20 +0000

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