Ravan - The Villain Who Was Never Just a Villain

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Ramayan with SP

Ravan - The Villain Who Was Never Just a Villain

Religion & Spirituality


Every Dussehra, we burn his effigy. In every retelling, we cast him as the demon who stole Sita. But who was Ravan, really? In today's episode of Ramayan with SP, Srishti takes a closer look at one of the most complicated figures in Indian mythology, the scholar, the musician, the Shiva devotee, and the king of Lanka, and asks the question the epic itself seems to ask, that can someone be brilliant and monstrous at the same time?