Book-launch at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
4a Castletown Rd, London W14 9HE (020 73813086)
9th June 2026, 7 pm
Starting with Refreshments, Programme 7.30-8.45 pm
Anjali Angelika Sriram will be in conversation with Ruth Lass about the relevance of the Ramayana today.
In her first English novel, Footprints of Eternity: Ramayana Reimagined (Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, 2026), Sita represents the meaning of life, the earth itself, and the demonic genius of Ravana, the power controlling the world today. The ancient battlefield is the inner landscape of a modern young man living between surrender and self-determination, between walking his own path and moving within invisible lines already drawn.
Carl Hargreaves will read passages from the book which are imagined conversations with T. Krishnamacharya, J. Krishnamurti and Rukmini Devi.
Anjali was part of the alternative Dance-theatre scene in London during the early 1970s, and then became a student of Kalakshetra, the Dhananyayans and Muthuswamy Pillai. After her long and successful dance career she published three novels in german as well as several non-fiction books.
Ich habe lange darauf hingearbeitet, jetzt steht es bevor. Bitte kommt und hört über den Indian trail der 70er Jahre, hört über was es damals gab, hört über den Protest der 80er Jahre, und hört über die Poesie des Ramayana, über die großen Philosophen und über die Auswirkungen der sich bis heute fortsetzenden kolonial denkenden Politik. Oder wenn London zu weit ist – lest das Buch, es ist überarbeitet und in neue Form gebracht und ich glaube es wird Kult! Im Jahr 26 wiederholt sich was war…Menschen bewegen sich gegen den Trend.