Ramcharitmanas: The Hindu epic poem causing a political storm in India

BBC news: A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64556116

This is not the first time Tulsidas’s epic, written more than 600 years ago, has been criticised, but what sets it apart this time is the scale of protests by both its supporters and critics. General elections in India are due in a year and politicians from both sides accuse each other of using the controversy over the book to polarise voters along caste lines.

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