Daily Archives: October 11, 2016

ravan dahan

Was Raven really a demon? Did he ever touch Sita against her wishes despite abducting her in outrage? His outrage was a result of his sister’s mutilation done by Laxman, still Ravan dug the piece of land where Sita was standing to abduct her and didn’t touch even her toe finger. Was it fair for Sita to be thrown out of her house by her husband just to satiate social norms? In today’s world, where a woman’s sanctity is not safe even inside the closed doors of her home proclaiming protection, this question arises whether Ravan was a demon or not. Aren’t we living in a chauvinist society which is still smiling over women’s plight after burning those so-called demons and effigies. Finally, the diurnal event of burning the demon is over! A ritual which steeped into hoary mythology,  a symbol of the triumph of virtue over vice, has now…

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