Opinion | Adipurush Row: Contemporarise Ancient Texts, But For God’s Sake Never Trivialise Them

Opinion | Adipurush Row: Contemporarise Ancient Texts, But For God’s Sake Never Trivialise Them

It’s an understandable exercise to contemporarise an ancient epic. The great Tulsidas did exactly the same when he wrote Ramcharitmanas, but he can never be accused of invading the sacred. If anything, he can be charged with being even more reverential to Ram and Hanuman