He is widely credited for being a pioneer of Sanskrit literature, defining the shape and form of Sanskrit poetry ... the epic that came to be called the Ramayana, comprising 24,000 verses across ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and religious appropriation has entrenched divisions and exclusion in Indian ...

Many Ramayanas, Many Lessons' by Anand Neelakantan is part of the author's effort to compile folk, oral, and textual ...