He has done nothing to adapt the words and the imagery to modern taste, and the result is an undoubted fidelity to the text. The Ramayana of Valmiki, like Lal's earlier The Mahabharata of Vyasa, is a sloka-by- sloka rendering of the original. Lal's literary career has had its full quota of vanavasa, il seems, and he has now settled down to the cosy luxury of Ayodhya. His The Ramayana of Valmiki, titled in gold letters, bound in a silk jacket, and sold in a blue, come-hitherish cover, is a long way from his earlier, and humbler, exercises at what he always insisted was "transcreation". Lal, after years of tinkering at his Writers' Workshop, has gone in for such heavy-duty cultural lathes as Vikas Publishing House alone can afford.
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