All my life I have tried to make sense of
Ram. The year I went to college, Lal Krishna Advani was on his 'rath yatra'.
A year before, Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana
was beamed into Indian households. I sensed that though Ram lacks the
flamboyance of Krishna, or the masculine unpredictability of Shiva, he somehow
means something to some. Little did I know then that this ‘some’ might mean a
majority and a strange portrayal of this predicable and utterly correct Ram
might shi