It was some thirty years ago. I was excavating at Śringaverapura, as a part of a major project named "Archaeology of the Ramayana Sites'. The Project included excavations at: Ayodhya, the birth-place of Sri Rama; Śringaverapura, where, during their exile, Rāma, Sita and Laksmaņa crossed the Ganga; Bharadvāja Aśrama, where the trio stopped over to pay their homage to sage Bharadvāja; Chitrakūța, where they stayed for quite some time and where Bharata, Rama's younger brother, came to meet Rama to persuade him to return to Ayodhyā; and Nandigrama from where Bharata carried on governmental affairs in the absence of Rama. The objective was to find out if these excavations could throw any light on the historicity of the Ramayana, One day, while working in a trench at Sringaverapura, I had a very interesting visitor - a journalist by profession. He was accompanying a film-maker who was producing a documentary on Ayodhya and the Ramayana story.
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