Kejriwal and Karna

Now-a-days everyone is talking about Mahabharat, be it the animation movie where big stars have landed their voice or the Television Series or the current political scenario in India. 

So I thought I should write something about it. You might have already flooded with various comparisons of today’s political set-up with mythological stories, but I can not stop myself.You may not be a fan of mythological writings or the stories, but you must have heard the name Karna or Karan.

Karna, a Mythological character from Mahabharata, is a well praised character, a great warrior, large hearted, hard worker, generous, and above all a fighter and self made leader. Any positive adjective I use here will be less for him and all this written in the classic book.  Having all said about Karna, he is not considered by people as a deity or someone who can be kept in the good books.

He was a son of the god Sun by kunti, but brought up by a charioteer and was always called a saarthi – putra or Soot-putra. According to the “Varna-vyavastha” he could not be a disciple of Gurus like Dronacharya and Parashurama, he could not get learning and teaching of astras(Weapons) and shaastra(Rules of life).

 He hated the system and rebelled against it. Karna became pupil of Guru Parashurama on a false note that he is a Brahmin. And as people say that a lie has no feet, so karna couldn’t go long with that lie and became victim of curse from his contemporary Guru Parshuram.Karna was good at heart, his intentions were good and he was skilled but just because he did not belong to a particular Varna(Caste), he could not hone his skills with the dignity as Khatriyas and Brahmins could afford.  He nourished a kind of hatred in his heart for this system and wanted to change it, and wanted to get the power, wanted to become a king.To douse his burning desires, to get the Kingdome, to fulfill his long term aspirations he joined hands with Kouravas (the 100 bad brothers or better the main villains of Mahabharat).

Finally in the climax his life was ended like a villain and not like a hero. He was killed by Arjuna.

He had to suffer a lot because of his 2 big mistakes, first, to betray a Guru like Parashuram and second, joining hands with most lawless, corrupt and hypocrite people like Kauravas.

The title of this article is Kejriwal and Karna, and I have written all about Karna, you might be thinking that when I would introduce our today’s hero Kejriwal? So my dear readers, that’s all, now I don’t need to write anything about Kejriwal. At the end of this article I will rename Kejriwal as today’s Karna who joined hands with today’s Kauravas.Rest you think, and relate the populist with the Karna's Story.

Note: All AAP and AK lovers, please excuse!

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