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Advani and Modi

Cartoon from Deepika
This morning's Malayalam newspaper, Deepika, delighted readers with the above cartoon on the front page. Modi is portrayed as Bhima in quest of the Sougandhika flower.  He encounters Hanuman on the way and is unable to meet the challenge posed by Hanuman.  Finally Bhima will understand the real power of his interceptor and seek his blessings.

Fabulous cartoon, I mused.  It depicts the present situation tersely.  And there's a deep irony too in it.

Neither Modi nor Advani is worthy of any comparison with the epic characters.  Both have acted from selfish motives thus far and continue to do so.

But the nature of the Kurukshetra has changed too today.  Today our heroes are no better than these characters.

  
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  1. magiceyeJune 11, 2013 at 9:32 AM

    Indeed! :)

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  2. RajeshJune 11, 2013 at 2:23 PM

    Good one.

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  3. AnonymousJune 11, 2013 at 2:48 PM

    Why is the umbilical chord coming out of his ass?

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  4. JiggyasaJune 11, 2013 at 4:35 PM

    what a fabulous depiction of the current situation through cartoon based on mythology.

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  5. AnonymousJune 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM

    well.. 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..
    Selfish 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 !! :)

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalJune 13, 2013 at 2:42 PM

      Jack, the cartoonist is Raju Nair, fairly well known in Kerala.

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  6. CYNOSUREJune 11, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    haha...superb... :)

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  7. Anupam KarnJune 11, 2013 at 8:19 PM

    haha...great! but recent progress has now reversed the rolls.

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  8. AnonymousJune 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    Wow nice and humorous... love ur post

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  9. SoumabhaJune 12, 2013 at 12:28 AM

    Wow, an exact and superb comparison :)

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  10. www.lifepartneracademy.comJune 12, 2013 at 12:39 AM

    Nice cartoon!

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  11. UnknownJune 12, 2013 at 11:11 AM

    yes true...they are not worthy of this comparision at all!!!!!!!

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  12. Richa SinghJune 12, 2013 at 4:31 PM

    the cartoon is actually very deep. It has shown a great comparison. Thanks for sharing it here :)

    Richa

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  13. GurujiJune 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    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.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalJune 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM

      Even a cartoon is an aesthetic expression. This cartoonist had every right to think this way, I'm sure.

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  14. DebopamJune 13, 2013 at 12:09 PM

    Nice one indeed.........

    Kenfolios

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  15. mandakolathurJune 13, 2013 at 9:42 PM

    Hasn't anyone' religious sensibilities been offended yet? That would be a surprise!

    RE

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  16. IndraniJune 14, 2013 at 12:15 PM

    Nice interpretation.

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  17. UnknownJuly 2, 2013 at 1:23 AM

    An apt and humorous potrayal of the conflict of the top BJP leaders angling for the primeministerial berth!

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalJuly 2, 2013 at 6:50 AM

      And Bhima will win the blessings of Hanuman and get his Sougandhika!

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  18. Life as it isAugust 1, 2013 at 2:39 PM

    Hello, 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....

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  19. ViyomaAugust 28, 2013 at 3:32 PM

    Hahha excellent - Raju Nair has surpassed Amul Poster Ads this time. Rules are the same, motive of winning is intact, be it war or politics.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalAugust 28, 2013 at 8:20 PM

      Thanks, Vyoma. It's nice to see your comments. Welcome to this space.

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  20. EduPubOctober 13, 2013 at 10:30 PM

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  21. EduPubOctober 31, 2016 at 1:14 PM

    This is really a wonderful piece of creative writing. I really liked it.
    You can read similar things on our website too.
    Just visit us at https://edupediapublications.org/

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