Ravana wasn’t just a villain of legend. In the Hindu Ramayan, his story is told as one of tyranny and evil… but across India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia, he is remembered differently.
A master of the veena, a devoted follower of Shiva, and one of the greatest scholars of his time, Ravana’s genius was systematically erased from popular memory. What if the epic you were taught is only half the truth? What if history chose a narrative that suited power, not wisdom?
Some knowledge is lost. Some is stolen. The echoes remain — waiting to be rediscovered.
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