1 Algerian Dinar = 6.4347 Chilean Peso

1 Algerian Dinar = 0.6623 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.2547 Ugandan Shilling

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.1551 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0034 Philippine Peso

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0071 Kenyan Shilling

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0005 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0553 Chilean Peso

1 Indonesian Rupiah = 0.0057 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Lithuanian Lita = 1287.0486 Ugandan Shilling

1 Lithuanian Lita = 783.7466 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Lithuanian Lita = 17.1011 Philippine Peso

1 Lithuanian Lita = 35.9158 Kenyan Shilling

1 Lithuanian Lita = 2.3958 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Lithuanian Lita = 279.6738 Chilean Peso

1 Lithuanian Lita = 28.785 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Nigerian Naira = 9.7444 Ugandan Shilling

1 Nigerian Naira = 5.9338 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.1295 Philippine Peso

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.2719 Kenyan Shilling

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.0181 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Nigerian Naira = 2.1174 Chilean Peso

1 Nigerian Naira = 0.2179 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 151.2108 Ugandan Shilling

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 92.0796 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 2.0091 Philippine Peso

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 4.2196 Kenyan Shilling

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 0.2815 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 32.8579 Chilean Peso

1 Czech Republic Koruna = 3.3818 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 551.1161 Ugandan Shilling

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 335.6014 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 7.3227 Philippine Peso

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 15.3792 Kenyan Shilling

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 1.0259 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 119.7567 Chilean Peso

1 Bolivian Boliviano = 12.3258 Bangladeshi Taka

1 Japanese Yen = 35.6249 Ugandan Shilling

1 Japanese Yen = 21.6937 Tanzanian Shilling

1 Japanese Yen = 0.4733 Philippine Peso

1 Japanese Yen = 0.9941 Kenyan Shilling

1 Japanese Yen = 0.0663 Chinese Yuan Renminbi

1 Japanese Yen = 7.7412 Chilean Peso

1 Japanese Yen = 0.7968 Bangladeshi Taka

I loved Nina Paley’s brilliant animated film Sita Sings the Blues. If you’re reading this, stop right now—and watch the film here.

Paley has set the story of the Ramayana to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. The epic tale is interwoven with Paley’s account of her husband’s move to India from where he dumps her by e-mail. The Ramayana is presented with the tagline: “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

All of this should make us curious. But there are other reasons for admiring this film:

The film returns us to the message that is made clear by every village-performance of the Ramlila: the epics are for everyone. Also, there is no authoritative narration of an epic. This film is aided by three shadow puppets who, drawing upon memory and unabashedly incomplete knowledge, boldly go where only pundits and philosophers have gone before. The result is a rendition of the epic that is gloriously a part of the everyday.

This idea is taken even further. Paley says that the work came from a shared culture, and it is to a shared culture that it must return: she has put the film on Creative Commons—viewers are invited to distribute, copy, remix the film.

Of course, such art drives the purists and fundamentalists crazy. On the Channel 13 website, “Durgadevi” and “Shridhar” rant about the evil done to Hinduism. It is as if Paley had lit her tail (tale!) and set our houses on fire!

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