Friday, May 30, 2008

krishna's inheritors

The papers yesterday had an interesting quote from a murder accused. Sentenced to life in prison, the accused man is said to have quipped that he was not too put out by his sentence. After all, he argued, he was a Yaduvanshi and inheritor to krishna's legacy!!
A case of selective reading of mythology, or perhaps, a reflection of how myths are misappropriated and misused in our country.

2 comments:

Deepti Dani said...

Definitely misread, misused and misinterpreted. That's one of the roots of a problem... reading incompletely andusing it to justify wrong doings. Hmph.

Btw, great going with the new look!

arundhuti said...

thanks and totally agree with you... sorry i am not so regular with my messages or my blogs but feels good to have you drop by