Like last year, violent clashes broke out across six states on March 30 in the culmination of Ram Navami which coincides with the month of Ramadan.
"'Maryada Purushottam' Lord Ram's life was based on sacrifice, tapasya, restraint and resolve," Modi tweeted on the occasion of the festival celebrated to mark His birth anniversary.
Indian Railways will launch an 18-day Shri Ramayana Yatra through a Bharat Gaurav Deluxe AC Tourist train to promote pilgrimage tourism, officials said on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh Governor S Abdul Nazeer and Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy extended Rama Navami festival greetings to the people of the state on Thursday. The Governor wished for the guidance of Lord Rama for all to...
Trust member Dr Anil Mishra said, "The construction work of the temple is progressing ahead of schedule. Soon the work of laying the beams of the sanctum sanctorum will begin."
Officials said on Thursday that Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had refused to sanction prosecution proceedings against Mayawati over her comparison of herself to Lord Rama.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that Lord Ram is not just an embodiment in stone or wood, but the centre of India's culture and faith, and that the government will build hospitals, schools, industries, and temples. He...
Bhagawan quoted the Uttara Kaand of Valmiki Ramayan and gave inferences that Lord Rama indulged in drinking and also killed a Shudra sitting in penance.
A day before Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra' is set to enter Uttar Pradesh, the chief priest of Ram Janmabhoomi temple wished that the blessings of Lord...
It all started with the form of address. I call Outlook's Editor Chinki ji. She started this culture at Outlook to address me as Indranil ji and now we often...
Linking Congress to 'Bharat' and Rahul Gandhi to 'Lord Ram', Salman Khurshid said that Rahul Gandhi is superhuman.
Sharad Kelkar talks about lending his voice to Prabhas' character in ‘Adipurush’, which features Prabhas playing the role of Lord Ram.
Bhakti, or devotion, is only a part of the epic, where anthropology, nature, agriculture, gender justice, mythology and knowledge, among many issues, come into...
If Tulsidas made Ram a self-effacing family man and king to be worshipped, the Ayodhya movement lent him a political identity. Tulsidas’s Ram was a stoic and...
Millions, who may not agree with Ram’s ideals, engage with his story, which calls upon them to confront their own behaviour
Ramayana is a story of struggle against society’s imposed morality, of kings and queens who are products of their circumstances and choices
Referring to Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress leaders said that Rahul Gandhi is walking even more than Lord Ram did from Ayodhya to Sri Lanka.
“Who is Ram?” The question is simple but the answers to it are complex, more so because there are multiple answers, rather than an answer. Over the...
The bestselling author and his producer-director recall their travels through Chitrakoot, shooting for a TV show on the Ram Van Gaman trail
The epic of Ramayan whose multiple renditions are known for the proverbial and more obvious battle of good versus evil also contains embedded narratives about...
Until a few years ago, the elders of Mithila refrained from even drinking water in Ayodhya, because nobody eats or drinks at the daughter’s sasural.
Ram Navami And Dussehra in Northeast: In many tribal versions, certain characters and events of the Valmiki Ramayana change according to the culture,...
In the traditional folk world of the region, Ram is popular as bridegroom and Ram as groom or son-in-law takes precedence over Ram the victor
A scholar reminisces his growing up in a sleepy town in Bihar and how its secular fabric changed after loud-mouthed Hindu fanatic leaders landed there
A creative peep into the last hours of the Asura king Ravan after he is vanquished in the epic battle of Ramayan
