11-01-2007, 06:05 PM
Shekhar Dasgupta interviewed M Karunanidhi recently. A couple of questions and responses from the interview:
SD: People in the Congress are not happy. They think you made a statement that the Valmiki Ramayan describes Lord Ram as a drunkard.
MK: Yes, please read it. <b>Even now I say that Valmiki has written that. What does Valmiki say? He says, âHanuman tells Sita that because of being separated from her Ram has not touched any liquor.â</b> Tell me, does this not figure in Valmiki? Iâll show you Valmiki (Ramayan).
SD: Have you read the Valmiki Ramayan?
MK: Yes. The Valmiki Ramayan and the Tulsidas Ramayan too. <b>In fact, in the Tulsidas Ramayan, Sita is not Ramâs wife but his sister. Only in the Valmiki Ramayan is she his wife. In many versions of Ramayan, she is his sister.</b>
SD: People in the Congress are not happy. They think you made a statement that the Valmiki Ramayan describes Lord Ram as a drunkard.
MK: Yes, please read it. <b>Even now I say that Valmiki has written that. What does Valmiki say? He says, âHanuman tells Sita that because of being separated from her Ram has not touched any liquor.â</b> Tell me, does this not figure in Valmiki? Iâll show you Valmiki (Ramayan).
SD: Have you read the Valmiki Ramayan?
MK: Yes. The Valmiki Ramayan and the Tulsidas Ramayan too. <b>In fact, in the Tulsidas Ramayan, Sita is not Ramâs wife but his sister. Only in the Valmiki Ramayan is she his wife. In many versions of Ramayan, she is his sister.</b>