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Volume Two tells the story of the Great War and of how Ravana was vanquished by the great Rama with imagination, power and beauty. Modern scholars claim that the Ramayana was first composed around 300 BC. The epic is called the Adi Kavya, the world's first poem. Ramesh Menon's the Ramayana is a novelist's lush, imaginative rendering, rather than a scholar's translation.
Ramesh Menon was born in 1951 in New Delhi. He attended St Columba's and St Xavier's High Schools and St Stephen's College. He has lived and worked in Delhi, Hong Kong, Bangalore and Jakarta, and now lives in Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. He is the author, among others, of Krishna: Life and Song of the Blue God and the Hunt for K, a novel and the Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering.
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