The Hindu : Opinion / Interview : The richness of the Ramayana, the poverty of a University
I must have been seven or eight years old and was in 4th standard in Jamnagar’s Shishu vihar
Hindi school when I was introduced to Ramayana and
Mahabharata . It was my father who
gave me a lesson of Ramayana and later
on on Mahabharata and
encouraged me to read the stories from a small book(did’nt remember the
name). The book, left such powerful impact on my young mind that the
hunger for reading more—particularly of these two epics—started burning in me,
and stays with me to this day.
I don’t know if
it would ever diminish, though I have migrated from one edition to the other
(all available from Nehru Library of CCS HAU), each one larger than the earlier
and each one claiming to be ‘authentic’ and ‘closer to the original’. My
quest for Ramayana was not fulfilled—to an extent, though—until I listened Ramayana verbal from Morari Bapu several
times over and over again. But the nagging within started once again,
which led me to purchase and read the Valmiki.
Have aRead!!!
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