Menon may well have achieved with Valmiki what Charles Lamb did with William Shakespeare
THE RAMAYANA
A Modern Translation
Ramesh Menon
HarperCollins
Price: Rs 795
Take a poll among ordinary middle-class Indians to find out their favourite Hindu epic. The chances are that a majority of them would vote for Mahabharata and not Ramayana.
In its grand scale, complex structure and the richness of the story and the characters, Mahabharata easily captures popular imagination much faster than Ramayana
