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03-09-2005, 03:32 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with all the glib parallels to Mahabharat being drawn here: of course the Mahabharat has wisdom from which we could refine a unique perspective on conflict, but we should be wary lest our discussions of it lead us along yet another rhetorical route to oversimplification.

For instance, what is this business of Western Bloc = Pandavas and Soviet Bloc = Kauravas? Where does this analogy even begin to come from? And how far are we going to take it? Are we seriously going to equate Yudhishtira's oath of "Ashwatthama is dead" to American genocide in Vietnam? Both could be characterized as "moral lapses in the larger interest of defeating the enemy" but are they even of the same order of magnitude?

Please. It's one thing to mine the wisdom of the Mahabharat with serious and careful analysis, it's quite another to skim the surface and end up loading our perceptions of conflict in today's world with unwarranted value judgements.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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