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  • Watsonville, California: Hindu devotees shoot arrows into an effigy of Ravana, the villain of the Ramayana epic, whose destruction every year is part of the festival of Dussehra. The death of Ravana marks the triumph of good over evil.
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  • San Jose, California: During a rehearsal for a high school musical production of the Ramayana, Hanuman comes to Sita's aid while she waits alone in Ravana's garden. Mount Madonna School, which is part of a yoga center and spiritual retreat,  has performed the Ramayana annualy since 1978.
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  • Tobin Mitchell prepares to perform the role of Ravana in Mount Madonna School's 37th annual stage production of the Ramayana, a musical treatment of the Indian epic. Credit: Preston Merchant
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  • Watsonville, California | 2016 <br />
Mount Madonna Center, a yoga center and spiritual retreat founded by Hari Dass, a silent monk who came to the US from India in the early 1970s, celebrates the Hindu festival of Navratri with the ritual destruction of a 12-meter Ravana, the villain of the Ramayana.
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  • San Jose, California | 2017<br />
Half in costume, students from Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, California, rehearse for a scene from Ramayana!, a musical adaptation of the Indian epic. Here Sugriva (in Che Guevara t-shirt) prepares to marshal his army of monkeys and bears to help the hero Ram fight for the return of his wife Sita, who has been captured by the Demon King Ravana.
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  • San Jose, California | 2018<br />
Senior Will Murphy plays the role of Ravana, the ten-headed Demon King and villain, in Mount Madonna School’s annual production of Ramayana!, a musical adaptation of the Indian epic.
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