Essays on Ramayana

The Ramayana was an epic Hindu saga that portrayed a love story between Rama and Sita. The Ramayana was dated to one of the old ancient saga of the Hindu culture, its known to occur almost around the BCE time. The story follows Rama the…

The Ramayana myth of Rama and Sita are used as examples and teachings in the Hindu religion. Sometimes they are portrayed as gods and sometimes as humans. This myth has several manuscripts and is very old dating back to the 6th century BC. There are…

The similarities between different culture’s origin stories and mythologies is quite remarkable. It is debatable whether or not the commonality to these stories can be explained by the proximity of early civilizations and the divergence of the stories over time for different groups, or whether…

My independent reading book was titled The Ramayana. The author of The Ramayana is R. K. Narayan. R. K. Narayan is short for Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami. Narayan was an Indian writer who specialized in writing fiction stories/ legends of India. He is known as…

Heroes can be defined in a variety of different ways. Many have completely different qualities and characteristics that lead them to their fame and glory, but they all have factors that link them together in no matter what culture or time period they reigned. In…

Around the year 300 BCE, there lived a rishi named Valmiki (Ramayana). One day, while Valmiki and his youngest disciple were on the banks of the Tamasa, they saw a bird and his mate (Menon 5). Suddenly, a hunter appeared and shot the bird, eliciting…