Word: ramayana
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...cluttered with them. There is the old woman who lived in a shoe and the young woman, in Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, who died for one. Cinderella's glass slippers and Dorothy's ruby pumps still tiptoe around the imagination. In the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana, the exiled king leaves behind a single memorable token: a pair of gold-encrusted shoes. Newlyweds once routinely tied a pair of old brogues behind their coach or car for good luck. In the Middle Ages the well-to-do wore poulaines, shoes with pointy, turned-up toes that were...
...B.J.P. has shaped Hedgewar's thoughts into a political juggernaut. Central to their political success is the promotion of Rama, the warrior god of the Hindu Ramayana epic, and a dilapidated 16th century mosque in the north Indian town of Ayodhya. The B.J.P. claims the site marks Rama's birthplace but that Mogul rulers destroyed a Hindu temple there and built a mosque in its place. There is no conclusive evidence of that claim, but as a point of Hindu self-esteem, the B.J.P. demands that the mosque be moved and a huge temple to Rama built on the spot...
More damning was a paragraph in which Jones described an old blind man "chanting the Ramayana, a part of Cambodia's cultural heritage, as he twanged a primitive guitar." Cockburn produced an almost identical passage from André Malraux's novel about his Cambodian travels in 1923 and 1924, La Voie Royale. Reckoned the Voice writer...
...Ramayana, which opened six years ago as one of Manhattan's few Indonesian restaurants, boasts a striking decor: a pedicab parked in the lobby, menus bound in batik, hostesses in flowing Indonesian gowns. At night, when native dancers perform, the restaurant's prices are high, but the buffet lunch is a bargain: for $5.50, guests can take their pick of dozens of spicy (skewered beef) or sweet (banana soup) dishes. For some executives from nearby oil-company offices, however, the food must have a bitter taste these days. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the restaurant...
...seeks an injunction barring further sales of stock in the Ramayana. Its action comes a bit late: Sutowo, 62, seems to have no need of further capital. Although he was fired by Pertamina last year after it ran up debts and losses of perhaps $10 billion, he remains one of the richest men in Indonesia. His restaurant partners have not been as lucky. They still own stock in the Ramayana, but the shares have never paid dividends-and oilmen get no discounts on their rijsttafel...