By Vijai Pant
“When will Ram kill Ravan with his arrow?” a fidgety Anna inquires, as the characters of Ram and Ravan battle it out in front of innumerable happy, expectant faces enjoying the Dussehra festival.
“Have patience. Ravan’s effigy will go up in flames, ending the demon king’s reign of evil,” says her father.
The fatal arrow strikes the effigy. A deafening explosion follows. Anna, her father, and many others are thrown high into the air. Mutilated bodies, blood, cries and screams everywhere.
Terror strikes the world again, this time through the mythological figure of Ravan.
The end of evil seems far off.
That’s thought provoking.
Micro and epic.
Short and effective!
Beautiful….both meet every year and one is killed. A joy it is for those who are afraid of demons. Unfortunate we are ideed because every year we recall and give a grandeur birth. None might have thought about Kekasi, the mother of Ravana, that for her again the same pain, compelled to tolrate being helpless.
Coeards die again and again but braves do not. Was Ravana not a brave individual?
Very nice.
Evil still pervades,the inherent evil is yet to be burnt.