December 22, 2002 at 6pm
Venue: Sundar Mahal, Padmavathy Road, Jeypore Colony, Chennai
Paula Richman has a PhD from the University of Chicago in South Asian Languages and Civilization. She is the head of department of Religion at Oberlin College in Ohio. She teaches courses in Indian history, culture and religion.
She has authored several books including "Women, Branch stories and religious rhetoric in Tamil Buddhist text," "Extraordinary child – translations from a genre of South Indian devotional poetry." She has edited "Many Ramayanas – the diversity of a narrative tradition in South India" and a sequel to that "Questioning Ramayana – a South Indian tradition." She is currently working on the telling of the Ramayana stories in Tamil Nadu in the mid 20th century.
"Through her research, Paula has helped revive the temper of independent enquiry, rooted in the Upanishads but overlaid by conservative accretions and orthodox dicta."
-"Faces of a festival" by N Vaidyanathan (The Arts Column, Indian Express, Dec 26, 2002) |
Prakriti Foundation
presented "The Richness of Ramayana stories in Modern South India", Talk by Paula Richman
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