One day while they were having a rehearsal, Niharika wished to stage Rabindranath Tagore's Valmiki-Pratibha involving the inmates of the correctional cells.
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It was a bold attempt at cracking the Valmiki-Ramayana code and in the process de-mystified the story of Rama to the middle-class -Literate- modern day- telugu reader.
He is mentioned in the oldest and most original existing versions of the Ramayana (those by Sage Valmiki), as having his abode in the form of a hermitage in the Malaya Mountains, at more than one place.
Pratibha Bharati was born into a politically active Dalit family in Kavali in the Srikakulam district.
The most original of all the existing versions of Valmiki's Ramayana also suggest the location of Ravana's Lanka to be in the western Indian Ocean.
It came as a surprise that the builders of the ECR (East Coast Road) had even considered demolition of the temple of Sage Valmiki lying opposite to the Marundeeswarar temple in order to complete the project (of building the ECR).
Pratibha Mahila Sahakari Bank (Pratibha Women Cooperative Bank) is a cooperative bank founded by Pratibha Patil, (who later became the President of India ) in 1973 in Jalgaon in Maharashtra with the objective of empowering women.
Sampoorna Ramayana (English trans.: Complete Ramayana) is a 1961 Indian mythological film, directed by Babubhai Mistry, based on epic Ramayana by Valmiki, starring Mahipal and Anita Guha as Rama and Sita respectively.
In Valmiki's Ramayana it is said that Viswamitra has his hermitage in Siddhashrama and it was the erstwhile hermitage of Vishnu, when he appeared as the Vamana Avatar.
In that film, she sang under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan the song "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" along with Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur and Pratibha.