Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit, but he chose to write his book in Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi spoken in Uttar ... not name his book Ramayana, but Ramcharitmanas. Here, Ramcharit means ...

Taking the ideas of the Bhakti saints who came before him, Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas, which is acknowledged as one of the greatest poems not just of Hindi or India but the entire world.

Bihar Education Minister Chandra Shekhar on January 11 stoked a controversy after he claimed that Ramcharitmanas, an epic Hindu religious book which is based on Ramayana, “spreads hatred in the ...