The Ramayana

A quarrel has broken out in the Indian capital over whether Delhi university

should teach a controversial essay about the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

The essay by the well-known scholar AK Ramanujan was dropped from the

history syllabus earlier this week :

after protests from Hindu hardline groups.!

Ketch...you gettin' back to your roots???

The Ramayana, written by the Hindu sage Valmiki:

Ram and Sita were married and are held up as an ideal couple.

Ravana, it says, desired Sita for himself, kidnapped her and held her hostage

until Ram rescued her.

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Ketch...you gettin' back to your roots???
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Goog Lee once proved to me that Ram BUILT a bridge from India to Lanka !  :wink:

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Goog Lee once proved to me that Ram BUILT a bridge from India to Lanka !  :wink:
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Googs tellin' you what you know already?

Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka.

The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.

In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between

Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast :

under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama

who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme....

                       

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In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between

Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast :

under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama

who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme....
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And here I thougth that I was part of the supreme...