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The Ramayana
In Our Time
The Power of Hanuman
Hanuman is really the character who brings the colour and the joy in some ways to a lot of the story. He's essentially a monkey character, and he's part of this world that Rama enters into when he's exiled. Hanuman represents absolute affectionate strength of heart where Rama's emotions have to be muted sometimes because he's this ascetic. Interestingly, Hanuman is a god who's associated with kind of male friendship with strong men but he doesn't mean masculinity and strength as a kind of stoic, angry, brutish thing. It means education, it means an articulate expression of your affection and an absolute love that is not a shame, but is in fact part
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