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Abhijit Majumder
Abhijit Majumder

@abhijitmajumder

6 Tweets 65 reads Feb 01, 2022
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I marvel at the dishonesty of those who say Lord Ram is a north Indian god alien to #Bengal culture. I will place some facts. You judge.
* Bengal’s biggest spiritual guru Gadadhar Chattopadhyay takes the name Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
* Iconic reformer: Ram Mohan Roy.
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* Bengal’s most famous sculptor: Ramkinkar Baij.
* Ramrajatala is in Howrah. Has a 300-year-old Ram temple built by zamindar Ayodhya Ram Choudhury where local worship the deity for 3 months every year.
* Serampore or Srirampur is one of the oldest cities. #Ram #Bengal
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* Sita Kund near Ayodhya hill is in Purulia district in #Bengal. It’s believed #Ram and #Sita came there during exile. Sita felt thirsty. Ram pierced earth with an arrow. A spring gushed out. Tribals named it Sita Kund.
* Bengal’s Patachitra paintings have Ramayan scenes.
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* Poet Krittibas Ojha wrote Ramayan in Bengali nearly 200 years before Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas. 51 other ancient and medieval Ramayans in Bengali exist.
* Poetic genius Michael Madhusudan Dutta wrote iconic Meghnad Badh Kavya in 1861.
* Bankim, Tagore wrote on Ramayan.
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* 19th century #Bengal saint Bama Khepa worshipped Kali and #Ram. Took part in Ram Navami.
* Swami Vivekananda visited Sita Kund in Chittagong, now in Bangladesh.
* Chaitanya Mahaprabhu held Ram as Maryada Purushottam.
* Bishnupur terracotta mandirs depict Ram as avatar.
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* Bengal’s tribal Chhau dance and local plays or Jatras are centred around Ramayan and Mahabharat.
* In #Bengal folklore, one must utter ‘Ram Ram’ to ward off a ghost. From there the ironical phrase, ‘Bhooter mukhe #Ram naam’.
* Finally, one of Bengal’s super sweets, Sita bhog👇🏼
* Bengal’s tribal Chhau dance and local plays or Jatras are centred around Ramayan and Mahabharat. *...

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