Word: ramayana
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...Like Vuorensola, American animator Nina Paley ignored traditional distribution methods and released her film, Sita Sings the Blues, a comic adaptation of the Hindu epic, The Ramayana, directly online earlier this year. She first created a blog, www.ninapaley.com, to develop a community of supporters, and then posted the film on another site, www.sitasingstheblues.com, for free. It was an instant success. "I have my blog, but I essentially gave the film to the audience and they ran with it," Paley says. "It wasn't self-distribution, it was audience distribution." (See the best blogs of the year...
...actress named Deepika Chikhalia won a parliamentary seat, five years after winning fame for her portrayal of the goddess Sita, India's most revered symbol of womanhood, in a wildly popular television serial based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Hoping to copy her success, other political parties soon put up their own TV-serial candidates. Sita exerts tremendous power over Indian popular culture: she is the bane of feminists, the impossible ideal held up by disapproving in-laws and yet, for many women, an object of devotion. What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura...
...19th century paintings from the courts of Jodhpur, in the modern-day state of Rajasthan. Never before seen in Europe, the pictures draw on Rajasthani artists' varied approaches to color and form as well as the miniature techniques of the Mughals. While some subjects are classic - scenes from the Ramayana, or maharajahs daintily sniffing roses in marble palaces - the most spectacular pieces attempt to capture the metaphysical concepts of Being and the Divine...
...hung up on identity. "If we use elements of local culture, it's not so much a way of expressing 'Thai-ness' but more about placing things found around us that might be funny or surprising," says Pijitra Lalitasakun, who turned Hanuman, the monkey god from Hindu epic the Ramayana, into a motif that adorns items by Bangkok's Hey Pilgrim! label. The 28-year-old says that if Bangkok has identity issues they are not cultural but to do with market perception - it is seen as "the place where you buy silk and cheap wholesale." She would like...
...quest. Thoreau used it in his years at Walden Pond. And as translator Patrick Olivelle - who in his rendering of the Buddhacarita has stressed its exquisite literary qualities - notes, Siddhartha's departure into the forest from his father's palace is itself "modeled after that of Rama in the Ramayana, although cast within a Buddhist theological and moral background." The Buddhacarita, Olivelle argues, is both an extension of Brahmanical texts and a potent challenge to them - repudiating Vedic conservatism and its emphasis on family units...