Srimad Ramayana was scripted by the harbinger poet Valmiki Maharshi, extolling the lives of Sree Raman, the acharya of Thredayugam, and his consort Sita Devi. This epic poem runs through veins of ...

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Reading Ramayana as a feminist epic The epic portrays a society where women were free to exercise their choices, irrespective of whether they lived in a hermit’s abode or a palace.

In the great epic poem of Ramayana, this chapter marks the acme of Valmiki's literary and poetic excellence, and so it is Sundara or beautiful. There are other interpretations as well.

Though Valmiki's Sanskrit poem Ramayana is the most influential among Indians, Ram's story is available in at least 22 languages, including Chinese, Laotian, Thai and Tibetan.

If we only look at Ram, we miss the Ramayana. But if we see those who stood beside, against, and beyond him—we begin to understand why this epic still speaks to every age.