When you read Ramayan or Mahabharat, these are live stories, so that you can relate to them even today. This is genuinely learning from the past. The basis of being human is that we can learn from someone else’s experience. All the nonsense need not happen to us. Maybe it happened 5000 years ago, but we can still correct our lives by looking at what happened to them. Right now, the Western way of writing history is like this, “This king came. He killed so many people. He did this. He did that. H

Gauranga Das on why Ramayan and Mahabharat are so relatable