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Manash Nath
এসেছিলাম মধ্যপ্রদেশের জব্বলপুরে... সেখান থেকে যাবার কথা ছিল পাঁচমারি। জব্বলপুর রেলওয়ে স্টেশনে টিকিট কাটতে এসে দেখি বিরাট একটা দল চলেছে চিত্রকূট... কি না নবরাত্রিতে তারা চিত্রকূটে কামতানাথ এর প্রদক্ষিণ করবে... ওখানেই নাকি রাম লক্ষণ আর সীতা বনবাসে এসে ছিল। রামায়ণের গল্পে আছে পিতৃসত্য রক্ষার্থে রাম…
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Manash Nath
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Manash Nath
This module gives a glimpse of the pilgrim-town Chitrakoot during Dussehra, with a traveller's acccount, complemented by an image gallery.
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Sudha Gopalakrishnan: Thank you, Dr Virginie Johan for agreeing to come and talk for us, for Sahapedia. To introduce Virginie, she has been a very avid scholar and practitioner of Kutiyattam. She has been coming to India for the last 20 years and has engaged with all the practitioners here and…
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Bharath Murthy
Introduction
This article attempts to survey the various artistic strategies used in the Indian graphic novel form. The focus is on works that self-consciously claim to be graphic novels. These are longer narratives, with a more ambitious scope both thematically and artistically. We trace the…
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Kanad Sinha
A module on Rāmakathā or the story of Rāma one of the most notable South Asian traditions.
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Kanad Sinha: Speaking of the Rāmakathā tradition, how do you perceive this particular tradition? Is it a tradition centred on an ur-text, the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, which gradually inspired a wide range of texts, or is it an open tradition formed by several independent versions of the Rāmakathā, each…
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Primary texts
Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa. 1992. Edited and translated in Hindi by Munnilal. Gorakhpur: Gita Press.
Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa. 1977. Edited by PanditYugal Kishor Dvivedi with commentary ‘Jyotsnā’ by Pandey Ramrej Sastri. Varanasi: Pandita Pustakalaya.
Bhāsa. Pratimānāṭakam. 1988…
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