On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Ashwin Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: Karna and Duryodhana are my > > > favourite characters from the Mahabharata. > > Interesting choice of characters. Why them?
Karna...made his way in life, through the worst odds possible. I liked both the Tamizh movie about him and R S Manohar's play about him (no matter how much the melodrama.) He lost to Arjuna, only because of his promise to a mother who never did, or could, publicly recognize him as her son. Now,to drift my own thread, I enjoyed the mythological plays of R S Manohar very much, with their lavish sets and loud declamations....I saw him, just before his death, in one of the re-staging of his plays, and it was very pathetic. Duryodhana...though he is so reviled, I think that some of the things that the angelic Pandavas did were much worse than any of his actions. And he recognized Karna and honoured him for his qualities,not for his birth, when everyone else talked only about his being the son of a charioteer. In our caste-ridden Indian society, that's an example to emulate :) I am a hopeless romantic at heart!
