Why Parts of India Mourn Ravana on the Same Day the Rest Burns Him
The Effigy and the ShrineIn Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, there is a temple to Ravana that stays shut for most of the year. On Dussehra it opens, and the community that tends it performs last rites, not puja. They mourn him as a fallen scholar, a Brahmin who made a catastrophic…
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