The chair is likely to function from April 1, proposal for which has been accepted by tourism and culture ministry Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi will soon have a research chair on ...

The Ramayan a, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient Indian literature, has been rewritten numerous times over the years. While most people are familiar with Valmiki’s Ramayana, countless ...

The availability of Rama’s story in vernacular fostered the tradition of Ram Leela—the dramatic enactment of Rama’s story held throughout India around Dussehra. Every one of us is familiar with the ...

Vasanta: Stories from Sanskrit Plays. Somewhere in the middle of third century king Shudraka’s Sanskrit and its dialects’ drama Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) is an angry exchange of words ...

Ramayana and Ramcharitmanas are two significant epics that narrate the life and adventures of Lord Rama, a deity in Hindu epics. While the two epics share some common themes and characters, they are ...

Staging of the popular Thai Ramayana, a play in Sanskrit, the Sanskrit kavi sammelan (poetry session) and shastrarth (debate) were among the other highlights of the event. Interestingly, one heard the ...

Sanjay Patel is no stranger to the fantastic. As an animator, he knows about rats with culinary dreams, furry blue monsters and armies of evil grasshoppers. But he says that some of the most fantastic ...

Trichy: Samskrita Sahitya Parishad, a cultural body promoting Sanskrit, will host a quiz competition for school and college students at Mahatma Gandhi.

By Sandeep Mishra Valmiki is the author of one of the two greatest Indian epics, the Ramayana. Valmiki is also known as Adi Kavi, which means the first poet. He is widely credited for being a pioneer ...

BEIJING: China has had footprints of the stories of Ramayana cloaked in Buddhist scriptures for centuries, scholars here have said, bringing to the fore perhaps for the first time, the influence of ...