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Let Rama lead the way
Updated On: 13 June, 2021 09:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
Two long-time friends and travel companions charted the route Lord Rama took during exile by consulting iterations of the Ramayana. Out now is their mytho-travelogue narrating experiences of the places, people, food and stories they encountered on this epic adventure
A 2,500-year-old structure excavated by the ASI in Shringaverpur near Allahabad, close to where Rama is said to have crossed the Ganga and donned the garb of a sanyasi
Where is Chitrakoot, Kishkindhya and Panchvati?” Vikrant Pande had asked his friends two years ago, questions many didn’t have the answers to. “Most people could not point Ayodhya on the map, though it was on television every day for political reasons,” he says. It was a desire to discover locations mentioned in the mythological epic Ramayana that led Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni to follow in the trail of Rama. Chitrakoot became the first place they visited in August 2018, a trip that led to the drafting of a chapter that got their publisher to green-light the project. It now finds space in In the Footsteps of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana (HarperCollins), their new title.
The Ramanathaswamy temple in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, where it is believed the lingam was consecrated by Rama the day after the coronation of Vibhisan
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