Prof Ratan Parimoo

About three years ago, when Professor Ratan Parimoo was studying the manuscript collection stored at the LD Institute of Indology - a sister organisation of the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum in Ahmedabad, of which he is the director - he came across a section that was to become the focus of his current research. This collection of Indian art objects, an initiative of Abanindranath and Gagendranath Tagore, comprised 1,800 drawings. Of these, 62 drawings illustrated the sequential unfolding of events in the Ayodhya Kaand (chapter) of the Ramayana.