Having born into the Raghvansh clan , I am supposedly a descendent of Rama. The deep curiosity led to decades of researches about his origins. That included dwelling into the written texts and the various versions.

The results are really outlandish . For example the Bali -Sugriva episode in Valmiki Ramayana has two layers

The killing of Bali on a muddy shore is the recounting of an ice age civilization in sub arctic that used to kill whales.

But,however strange it may sound , it also recounts the murder of Pompey on the Egyptian shore where he had gone to seek asylum after losing to Julious in the Roman civil war. Hanuman in these passages is Cicero. In the older contex he recalls the memorary of a people who had made great strides in linguistic expressions.

There are hundreds of more findings. But the directions taken by most researchers leaves no room foe a lateral thinking

Incidently the original Ramsetu was the Baring Bridge.

Siddharth