"The Tale of Dewa Ruci" is a Javanese story based on the epic Mahabharata. It tells the story of Bima — one of the Pandawa brothers — in his quest for sacred knowledge. This mystical journey brings ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Shadow puppet of the character Bima (made seventeenth or eighteenth century), from Java When ...

Thousands of years ago, when Bhima, one of the Pandava brothers of Mahabharata, was wandering in exile with his brothers and mother Kunti, he came across a wicked demon named Hidimb. When Hidimb ...

When the young Barack Obama was taken to Java to live with his new Indonesian stepfather, he was astonished to see, standing astride the road, a giant statue with the body of a man and the head of an ...

‘Bakavadham’ was the first of the four classic Kathakali plays authored by Kottayam Thampuran, the iconic poet-composer. In narrating the tribulations of the Pandavas from the Adi Parva of the ...

Malayalam superstar Mohanlal has confirmed that he will play Bhima in the screen adaptation of veteran Malayalam writer MT Vasudevan Nair’s Jnanpeeth Award-winning novel Randamoozham (Second Turn).

“..[B]ecause mythology is more abstract, less associated with local details, and transcendent, it is consequently more susceptible to external influence” - Blackburn, 1977 Amidst a group of ...

When the young Barack Obama was taken to Java to live with his new Indonesian stepfather, he was astonished to see, standing astride the road, a giant statue with the body of a man and the head of an ...