We have seen Balala Ramayanam featuring Junior NTR, then newly in his teens, in the role of Lord Rama. It is now the turn of another child artist, Master Prabhat, grandson of Late P Janardhana Reddy, to transform himself into a child Vivekananda. This film, titled after the 19th century monk, will be directed by Suresh Bujji, a well-known publicity designer. Launching the film today, Bujji said that he would...
12:13 PM, May 17, 2012
Main samay hoon.... Announcer Harish Bhimani's bass voice set against the silhouette of the gently spinning wheel of time was a fixture at almost every Indian home during the serialization of one of the most dramatic Indian epics during the fall-summer seasons of 1988-1990. Bhimani, as the narrator of Mahabharata and the voice of time, signalled the start of every eagerly awaited episode on Sunday mornings when families gathered around...
12:15 PM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi University, under pressure from right-wing groups, on Friday finalised the ban on AK Ramanujan's famous essay titled 'Three Hundred Ramayanas'. An online petition against the ban has been floated and protests are planned next week. Delhi University's Academic Council met on Tuesday and came on the conclusion to drop the essay from the undergraduate course in Delhi University. The ban on the essay has become a source...
04:43 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil writer A A Manavalan has been chosen for the 'Saraswati Samman' 2011 for his book on Ramayana, the K K Birla Foundation announced on Thursday. Manavalan, 75, a retired professor and head of the department of Tamil in Madras University, will be bestowed with the prestigious award for his 2005 work 'Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalum' (Ramakatha and Ramayanas). The award-winning book is a comparative study of 48 Ramayanas...
04:38 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The docile and soft Sita of Ramayana may not be a role model for most women today, however, author Samhita Arni in a new graphic novel has brought out the bolder colours of the epic character. "Sita's Ramayana," a vivid book which retells the ancient Indian epic through illustrations in Bengal's folk art form of Patua, has Sita voicing out her turbulent life, her anger on Rama and...
01:49 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Item songs are a rage and television actress Debina Mookherjee, who likes doing different things, is hooked on to it. After doing dance numbers in regional movies, she wants to do one for a Hindi movie. "As of now I don't have any Bollywood project, but, yes, I am doing two item-songs - one for a southern movie called 'Six' and another for Punjabi film 'Yara Mera Rab...
12:01 PM, Nov 17, 2011
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The history of pre-modern South Indian culture has a dynamics based not entirely on 'affairs of kings or splendors of fortune' or just on mechanical ...
02:48 PM, Nov 14, 2011
DU teachers and students protested against the withdrawal of AK Ramanujan's 'Three Hundred Ramayans' from the curriculum. ...
11:47 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: Actor Kabir bedi has started a protest opposing Delhi University's decision to remove late poet and translator AK Ramanujan's essay 'Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation' from its history syllabus. "I have signed petition opposing Delhi University's removal of of AK Ramanujan's '300 Ramayans' from the history syllabus. Knowledge should not be banned," Bedi posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. According to the reports, the...
01:07 PM, Oct 24, 2011
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AK Ramanujan's essay,'Three Hundred Ramayanas-Five Examples And Three Thoughts On Translation,' has finally been dropped from the history syllabus of Delhi University. I wrote the ...
12:01 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New Delhi: There is revolt in the Delhi University campus as student and teacher organisations will protest against the scrapping of AK Ramanujan's essay on Ramayana from the syllabus. This came after an online signature campaign last week slammed the move. "To delete it (the essay) from the syllabus is an act that is deeply disturbing, an instance of thought policing. Such a measure will only encourage sectarian groups to...
08:24 AM, Oct 24, 2011
When a story told a million times and a mythology tale one has heard over and over again since childhood is still written with a flair and style that make it exciting and gripping at the same time, then you have a great read in your hands. This is one such book. The slim work covers that part of Valmiki's Ramayana when Rama, Laksmana and Sita enter the mighty Dandaka...
02:48 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Chennai: Top southern actress Nayantara has converted from Christianity to Hinduism, say sources close to the Arya Samaj, even as she herself maintains a studied silence on the issue. Nayantara, born and brought up as Diana Mariam Kurian, was a born Christian. She changed her name because of her foray into films. She reportedly converted to Hinduism on Sunday morning at the Arya Samaj Temple in Chennai, the sources said,...
10:26 PM, Aug 11, 2011
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