As most of northern India erupts with the thunder of firecrackers and effigies of Raavan burn down to ashes, on Dussehra, a quiet haze will descend in the historic town of Mandore in Rajasthan. Just ...
In an imaginary courtroom in 1982, Raavan stands ready to defend himself. This extraordinary retrial challenges the verdict pronounced by the 13th century Tamil poet Kamban, author of the revered ...
The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in ...