Ramayana essay: Let the matter rest

In March 2008, your reporter was relieved when Delhi University’s Academic Council decided to retain the essay by AK Ramanujan — Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation — as part of its course on Ancient Indian Culture. The Academic Council meeting had then begun on a stormy note with the pro-BJP faction of teachers taking to the well of the House demanding withdrawal of the text from the syllabus. The matter is again in news as the same Academic Council, three years later, has dropped the essay from the syllabus.

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