Tag Epic

This chapter is on a character that talks like a human and perhaps behaves like one too, but has the body of a monkey. Guessed already? :-).. I hope I would be right when I say, “Your guess is right…. Continue Reading →

This blog post is derived from quite a few situations, that have been blogged upon in the previous chapters. Be it the conversation between Mandarai and Kaikeyi or Kaikeyi and Dasaratha or Sita and Rama, every one of these had… Continue Reading →

Ravana has made his presence in the epic and also in this blog post:-) This blog post begins from what Ravana was before he became Ravana. Sounds puzzling? Read on.. Lord Brahma’s grandson Visrawas was doing his intense meditation when… Continue Reading →

These are two situations that gave a perspective of one telling another person ‘what they did’ (and ‘what they did’ was not a pleasant action to do), without holding back anything. We call this ‘telling the truth’. Read on for… Continue Reading →

I have read and heard people relating many incidents from the Mahabharata, to day to day living. I have hence thought that Ramayana is more a story, with some learnings and messages; or perhaps this thought is also because I… Continue Reading →

This chapter seems to be one more, that details a single situation. This is getting more and more unexpected and unanticipated!! What is the situation? Let me give a background before stating the situation (Ah!! Kamban’s style (meaning first and… Continue Reading →

Perhaps one of the important situations in the Ramayana, which also is a turning point in its own way. I have heard a lot about this situation but did not know the words that were used, to change a person’s… Continue Reading →

  As shared in the introduction of this series of blogs on The ‘Epic’ Learning, I will be taking sections from the book ‘Valmiki Ramayana’ by Cho Ramaswamy and will add my perspective from day to day living. While the… Continue Reading →

Setting the context of this series of blogs: I am not sure if I have been hearing from people right from my childhood, that Ramayana and Mahabharata are our holy books and the main characters in these holy books, like… Continue Reading →