Book Review “ Death ends life, not a relationship ,” as Mitch Albom put it. That is why, we have so many rituals associated with death. Minakshi Dewan’s book, The Final Farewell [HarperCollins, 2023], is a well-researched book about those rituals. The book starts with an elaborate description of the Sikh rituals associated with death and cremation, before moving on to Islam, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and finally Hinduism. After that, it’s all about the various traditions and related details of Hindu final rites. A few chapters are dedicated to the problems of widows in India, gender discrimination in the last rites, and the problem of unclaimed dead bodies. There is a chapter titled ‘Grieving Widows in Hindi Cinema’ too. Death and its rituals form an unusual theme for a book. Frankly, I don’t find the topic stimulating in any way. Obviously, I didn’t buy this book. It came to me as quite many other books do – for reasons of their own. I read the book finally, having shelv
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ReplyDeleteGood one.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the umbilical chord coming out of his ass?
ReplyDeletewhat a fabulous depiction of the current situation through cartoon based on mythology.
ReplyDeletewell.. even I think of depicting humans of the age with mythological gems of hinduism.. but then I feel even if I compare negative shades of mythology with the villains of the date .. would insult the villains of mythology who had some ideologies to follow and the heroes can never be compared ..no matter how much we try..
ReplyDeleteSelfish are both the leaders..and its better to select the less selfish given a choice .. :)
Well depicted cartoon .. all i wish i could read one of our national languages and would have known the talent's name who made it !! :)
Jack, the cartoonist is Raju Nair, fairly well known in Kerala.
Deletehaha...superb... :)
ReplyDeletehaha...great! but recent progress has now reversed the rolls.
ReplyDeleteWow nice and humorous... love ur post
ReplyDeleteWow, an exact and superb comparison :)
ReplyDeleteNice cartoon!
ReplyDeleteyes true...they are not worthy of this comparision at all!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletethe cartoon is actually very deep. It has shown a great comparison. Thanks for sharing it here :)
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On the face of it yes, there seems like there is an analogy. But as you rightly pointed out, neither of them can be compared to characters Vyasa(or whoever) portrayed. Nevertheless, a more apt cartoon would have been a Hanuman (Modi) hiding behind his saviors Ram&Lakshman(RSS) who are shooting down Bali(Advani) who himself is a bhakth of the same gods who help Hanuman eliminate him.
ReplyDeleteEven a cartoon is an aesthetic expression. This cartoonist had every right to think this way, I'm sure.
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Hasn't anyone' religious sensibilities been offended yet? That would be a surprise!
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Nice interpretation.
ReplyDeleteAn apt and humorous potrayal of the conflict of the top BJP leaders angling for the primeministerial berth!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bhima will win the blessings of Hanuman and get his Sougandhika!
DeleteHello, this is slightly off the topic here but I thought there is a need to get this in picture...Outlook survey on 'Most influential Indians 2013' and once you log in the most horrible thing I came across was for each state they have 5 nominations...delhi is ruled by Gandhi's it seems and Gujarat has no place for Modi...To me this looked like a really biased survey. And it's not fair on people who dont know these details. Once the results are out we all will get busy tweeting/ blogging/ writing without knowing fully on how it was conducted... Need you to look into this and share comment on this....
ReplyDeleteHahha excellent - Raju Nair has surpassed Amul Poster Ads this time. Rules are the same, motive of winning is intact, be it war or politics.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Vyoma. It's nice to see your comments. Welcome to this space.
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ReplyDeleteThis is really a wonderful piece of creative writing. I really liked it.
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