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Raavan is engulfed in what Hindu mythology considers the purest: fire. The ritual of burning, year after year, leaves questions that smoulder long after the flames die. As Ravana's effigy is reduced to ash, who cries? Artisans who occupy corners of pavements, stand far from the celebration. Their splintered fingers with a gloomy smile, call for the next year when their hunger will be burnt in the making of Dashanan. The festival which is sandwiched between Navratri and Diwali ends in a twilight. Artisans paint him pink and purple ,the colour of joy, as he heads towards ‘Mukti’ to question what is right and wrong.
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The character of Raavan has resisted the imposition of a singular narrative of him
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Will the competing images of Ram and Raavan influence India’s political future?
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The Asurs in Jharkhand, who hold Raavan and Mahishasur in high regard, have been protesting against burning their effigies
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In some strands of Gond folk history, Raven is an administrative post similar to MLAs and MPs of modern-age democracy
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Those who have come on stage to enact the king who abducted Sita perhaps know that the legacy of Raavan extends more than what a stage or a performance can hold
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A poem by Meera Nair
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In Sri Lanka, there is no mythological version of the Ramayana. Raavan’s world was more than that
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As Raavan lay dying, Ram told Lakshman to learn from his defeats. Ram hailed him a great scholar and said there is no enemy or enmity when the war is over
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Ashutosh Rana speaks to Outlook on his performance as Raavan in Humare Ram
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The personification of Raavan as a Dravidian king and a symbol of resistance plays a vital role in Tamil Nadu’s political history
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Inspired by the 12th-century Kamba Ramayanam by Tamil poet Kamban, Valmiki’s Ramayana and Shashi Raj Kavoor’s play Ekadashanana, a dance performance boldly challenges the traditional portrayal of Raavan.
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