Visit Nepal 360

Meandering via paddy and wheat fields on a cycle rickshaw , in search of bodily markings of a mythological records, I realised that if there are a million ‘tellings’ of the Ramayana, those aren’t handiest to be determined in texts and plays, dances, songs and shadow puppetry. There is a Ramayana unfolding in everyone and region staking a few declare to it. The landscape, human beings and temples of Janakpur, a small town in Nepal, create a compelling telling themselves. This telling is infused with tales of Sita (or Janaki), who lived until her marriage inside the ancient metropolis of Mithila (Janakpur is the present-day city equivalent). I travelled to Janakpur with those stories ringing in my ears, my nose in lots of versions of the Ramayana, and in my mind pix of a nation-state that could reveal a history I in no way thought of or knew existed. A records of Sita’s life before she became Rama’s wife, earlier than she became an device in a tremendous epic tale. Janaki Temple ...