IT WAS THE seventh day of silence that nearly broke me. I was sitting in the “cell” I had been assigned to earlier that morning. Think a human-sized cupboard, windowless and about the length ...

Arun Ganapathy visits the home of Rama s biographer in Varanasi and finds that the Ramayana s key characters are living entities for the localsAt the end of the famed ghats of Varanasi there s one gha ...