Echoes

Tuesday, December 09, 2003


Lanka in Pakistan?

I was reading the Pakistani daily Dawn and was little surprised to see today's Cartoon of the Day:



Isn't that a take off on Hanuman's gatecrashing of Ravana's party? If yes, it'd be intersting to find out how many Pakistanis really know about Ramayana or are fairly acquainted with Hindu mythology. Older ones who saw undivided India might be expected to, but certainly not the ones born after the Partition - what with large scale demonizing and history-tampering on both sides of the border. Anyway that's altogether a different issue .....

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