Scene 1:

They are discussing about all the places they could search for mother Sita and Lord
Ram expresses his surprise when Sughreeva  displays a  thorough knowledge of 
topography .

He seems to know all the places very well and Lord Ram asks Sughreeva how he
managed to be so knowledgeable.

“Simple” he says “I was chased by my brother Vaali all over this region and I was
trying to find a good hiding place!”.

So it was a case of pure necessity which made this  person place-savvy!

Scene 2:

The vanara warriors are standing in the beach facing South. Now they have
conclusive evidence about where mother Sita is and they are wondering, who among
them can cross the sea and find her.

Jambavaan , the senior consultant is discussing with the vanaras about their
respective flying abilities.

Hanuman is quiet but the other vanara warriors are discussing about how many
yojanas

 [a measure of distance] each one of them can manage to fly.

Angadh the prince says he can fly up to Lanka. [I think he says he is capable of
flying a distance of 100 yojanas only and not more than that-please correct me here
if I am wrong]

Every one is excited until he completes his sentence.

”But I can ‘t fly back to tell you that I found mother Sita!”

People can consider the Ramayan a mere well-told story and Rishi Valmikh a good
story teller, but, even then, it’d be  hard to be untouched by the charm of this epic.

 
I am averse to posting email forwards in my blog. But there must be exceptions to
every rule. This is one of them.  Enjoy:

The Ramayana for American Born Confused Desis:

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the
significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is how he went about it...

" So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him.. But, like, his
step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like,
send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some national forest or something.... Since he
was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so.... he decided to get his
wife and his bro along... you know...so that they could all chill out together. But
Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit... really man...they had monkeys and devil s
and shit like that. 

But this dude, Ram, kicked with darts and bows and arrows.... so it was fine. But
then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and
lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman,
pissed... all the gods were with him... So anyways, you don't mess with gods. So,
Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys... Dude, don't ask me how they trained
the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok... So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys
whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood... 

Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest... and anyways... it gets kinda
boring, you know... no TV or malls or shit like that. So,they decided to hitch a ride
back home.... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are
back home...they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something
nice...and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take
them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and shit... and since they also
had some lamps, they lit the lamps also....so it was pretty cooool... you know with all
those fireworks.... Really, they even had some local band play along with the
fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding.., that was
the very first music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but
just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was
how, like, this festival started."
Imagine the ten-headed Ravana going to the battlefield and declaring, ‘I need hot
dog, ‘cause I need energy. It takes effort to sign autographs and take photos with
fans at the same time!’ or Vibhishana exclaiming, ‘Sayonara! I am subscribing to
Rama’s youtube channel, which by the way is twice PewDiePie’s subscriber count!.
His last video was insane! It has 8 million likes and 1 dislike...’