Ramnagar Ki Ramleela
Title: Ramnagar Kit Ramleela - How Ramcharitmanas is brought to life at one of the oldest ‘melas’in Varanasi Published : First Post on 13th November, 2018, here . Thanks: Team at FirstPost and of course friends and colleagues for joining on the trips. Ram, Lakshman and Shatrughan are not well. They have suffered from diarrhoea and are admitted to a hospital – the newspaper reported. The lines referred to the actors playing the trio in Ramleela and were part of a daily column being run for the entire duration of the event. Yes, we are talking about the Ramleela at Ramnagar, Varanasi which goes on for about a month and one which till today takes help of neither the tube lights and bulbs nor audio systems. This was only the 4 th occasion in its 183 year history that the Ramleela took a break. Ram falling sick on account of polluted water might as well be a statement on our times and place, but for now, let us have a look at the past. Legend has it that the ...