Each year, Dussehra celebrates the destruction by fire of Ravana — Lanka's ten-headed king — in the ritual of Ravan Dahan. In 2025, the festival will fall on October 2, when giant effigies of Ravana ...
According to the Ramayana, the infamous demon king Ravan abducted Sita to avenge the insult of his sister Shurpanakha. However, many are unaware that Sita was not the first woman he forcibly took; ...
If you grew up watching televised versions of the Ramayana, you may remember Ravana appearing at Sita’s swayamvar, surrounded ...