Before Tulsidas’ retelling turned him into an infallible God, Rama was designed to be the first self-aware, doubt-ridden, painfully human avatar of Vishnu. In Valmiki’s epic, he makes many questionable moral choices, like the killing of Vali and the banishment of ...

It is often said that every story ever to have been told is in the Mahabharata. It is no wonder that the sweeping epic has been the inspiration for books and movies like Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel and Shyam ...

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36 of the Bay Area’s most accomplished dance companies representing diverse dance traditions from more than 20 cultures take the stage every weekend in June at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. From the palaces of Bali to the village squares of Mexico and the mountains of the Andes, the 32nd ...