Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The movie, animated by Nina Paley, is an accessible adaptation of the Rama story, and accurately depicts how Hindu myths are passed down through different versions.
There's a movie online by uh Nina Paley who's a female graphic artist who's amazing called Cita Sings the Blues, if you just google that, it's the whole movie's free.
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The movie, animated by Nina Paley, is an accessible adaptation of the Rama story, and accurately depicts how Hindu myths are passed down through different versions.
There's a movie online by uh Nina Paley who's a female graphic artist who's amazing called Cita Sings the Blues, if you just google that, it's the whole movie's free.
It's one of those beautiful pieces of animation. It's why I went to India in the first place. Incredible movie.
One of the things that does really well is it has all these scenes where like individual like myths from like Hindu mythology are explained by like groups of people arguing about them.
If you actually go to India is how you learn about myths like if you talk about the myth of Cita and Rama to like a family everyone in the family you'll like it like multiple different versions of the story and people will argue with each other like it's not like Christian orthodoxy or whatever like it's very very complicated stuff but fascinating.