I celebrated the onset of the summer vacation watching Life of Pi on Star Movies. I haven’t read the novel and hence don’t know how far the movie is loyal to it. Experience has taught me that movies generally do much injustice to written texts. I liked the movie, however. The tiger as well as the other animals on the lifeboat may be an invention of Pi. Though he tells us another story replacing the animals with human characters, he leaves us with the option of choosing between the two tales, without ever telling us conclusively which the real version is. The film is a kind of fable with a moral. Religions and gods are as good as stories and myths in man’s attempt to discover meaning in life, shows the movie. They are all palliatives in times of anguish. Man liberates himself from his pains by transmuting the pain into a narrative. Religion does the same thing in a slightly different way. Perhaps, religion has the added advantage in the form of omnipotent and omn
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