Ghoora [घूरा] Ramayana and the politics of interpretation By Ratnakar Tripathy Some time ago when I read that the Delhi University has removed A K Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana from its syllabus, my eyes shot up to my bookshelves above where I stared at my two favourites before pulling them out after months – Father Kamil Bulcke’s ‘Ramkatha’ in Hindi, his D. Phil thesis in fact where he discusses the many versions of the story, and A K Ramanujan’s ‘Folk Tales from India’. Instead of feeling any anger towards the bad faith behind the move, which would have been...