Each year, Dussehra celebrates the destruction by fire of Ravana — Lanka's ten-headed king — in the ritual of Ravan Dahan. In 2025, the festival will fall on October 2, when giant effigies of Ravana ...

Ravan, the demon king of Lanka and the main antagonist in the Ramayana, is often remembered as the villain who abducted Sita and was ultimately slain by Lord Rama. But beyond this familiar tale lies a ...