Today is Ram Navami, the birth anniversary of Lord Rama. I have heard, read, and studied about Rama right from my childhood. Our Malayalam lessons, throughout the ten years of school, were full of stories from the Ramayana, both in prose and poetry forms. The children’s magazines that I read voraciously as a boy carried countless stories from the epic. Later I read the epic as translated by C Rajagopalachari (Rajaji, as he was known), freedom fighter and the last Go...