Romancing the Past
Why are Indians so eager to glorify the past? Someone asked me the other day. Is it because, say, Hanuman’s devotion is still the ideal? Sita’s fire-tested chastity has no parallels today? Even a rakshasa like Mandodari was naïve enough to be tricked by an Aryan ape?
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