An Indian Odyssey
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The Ramayana - the Journey of Rama - is India's best-loved book an inspiration to school-children monks and moviemakers yet it is virtually unknown in the Western world. The story of Rama an exiled prince searching savage jungles for his kidnapped wife it mixes Homer's Odyssey with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It is an ancient epic at once violent spiritual and erotic. Yet it also lies at the heart of India's fiercest modern controversy the Hindu-Muslim clash that has claimed 13 000 lives since 1992. When Martin Buckley first encountered the Ramayana twenty-five-years ago it seemed a key to unl...
The Ramayana - the Journey of Rama - is India's best-loved book an inspiration to school-children monks and moviemakers yet it is virtually unknown in the Western world. The story of Rama an exiled prince searching savage jungles for his kidnapped wife it mixes Homer's Odyssey with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. It is an ancient epic at once violent spiritual and erotic. Yet it also lies at the heart of India's fiercest modern controversy the Hindu-Muslim clash that has claimed 13 000 lives since 1992. When Martin Buckley first encountered the Ramayana twenty-five-years ago it seemed a key to unlocking the myriad mysteries of Indian life. He dreamed of retracing the journey of the blue-skinned warrior god from his birthplace in North India to the climax of his confrontation with evil in Sri Lanka. Buckley's own physical and spiritual odyssey a sometimes perilous passage through India by motorbike microlight bus and train offers unique and passionate insights into the heart of India - ancient and modern.
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