Tulasidas

About Tulasidas:

• Tulsidas, whose real name was Ram Bola Dubey, wrote the Ramcharitmanas on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi.
• The Ramcharitmanas was written in the 16th century in the Awadhi dialect, which is primarily spoken in the districts of Lucknow, Prayagraj, and Ayodhya.
• He was a contemporary of Emperor Akbar and is thought to have corresponded with Abdurrahim Khan-e-Khanan, the son of Akbar's commander Bairam Khan.
• Tulsidas popularised the story of Lord Ram because he wrote in the regional dialect that most people understood.
• This enraged ancient Sanskrit scholars, and Tulsidas documented his anguish in his Kavitawali.