Sivaswamy has elaborated on Ravana's good qualities, and goes on to say, "The Hindu outfit also needs a refresher course on the country's legends..." I agreel and add that all the people who fancy themselves as Hindus (that includes me) should take a refresher course. The basic difficulty is that Hindus confuse between epics and scriptures. Ramayana and Mahabharata are epics, not scriptures. There are no lessons of ethics or morality to be learnt from them. Ravana and his brothers were Vishnu's servants before a sage cursed them, along with their master, to be born on earth. If one reads the details from the _puranaas_ and it will clear his mind about Ravana et al. They were NOT monsters.
