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Panchatantra: Crows and Owls and other Stories
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32 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 2003
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Anant Pai
1,063 books225 followersAnant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.
Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.
Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.
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July 29, 2020
Ah, one of my favourite ACK comics in my childhood. Why? There is no noble hero, no "inspirational acts of heroism", then what? Because it shows reality of kaliyuga, not the times of महाभारत or रामायण where even the enemies are like saints compared to the enemies of now. Panchatantra is pure blackpill.
4 stories in this. But my favourite is the first, story of owls and the crows (everyone may know this). Panchatantra is not some "children's stories". This is much useful for rules in administration, especially this kaliyuga. Here the crow minister sthirajivi (names in the comic are weird. Livestrong, cloudy, redeye. Yo what?) advices his king meghavarman what the Hindus WON'T call noble. He uses deceit, द्वैधीभाव.
Only 1 minister of the owls suspect, raktaakSa, and he asks his king to kill the crow, as he's an enemy after all. But the king and his ministers are all midwits, much like the current Hindus ("oh he's a poor guy, not like the enemy, rejected by them "). And this leads to their peril.
In महाभारत the crows are killed by the owl by its strength and wit (what a wonderful scene this is. Wings and legs and heads torn off, ground covered by branches and blood). In the panchatantra, the crows kill the owls, by deceit, no morals. The verses actually tell to *distrust the enemy at all times. Even the servant who come from the other side will always be wicked*
The masculine nobility gangs would rather "die than be subdued". No. Would you rather live and see to the defeat of the enemies or die for "nobility". This is kaliyuga folks. This is not a gigachad dvaapara.
4 stories in this. But my favourite is the first, story of owls and the crows (everyone may know this). Panchatantra is not some "children's stories". This is much useful for rules in administration, especially this kaliyuga. Here the crow minister sthirajivi (names in the comic are weird. Livestrong, cloudy, redeye. Yo what?) advices his king meghavarman what the Hindus WON'T call noble. He uses deceit, द्वैधीभाव.
Only 1 minister of the owls suspect, raktaakSa, and he asks his king to kill the crow, as he's an enemy after all. But the king and his ministers are all midwits, much like the current Hindus ("oh he's a poor guy, not like the enemy, rejected by them "). And this leads to their peril.
In महाभारत the crows are killed by the owl by its strength and wit (what a wonderful scene this is. Wings and legs and heads torn off, ground covered by branches and blood). In the panchatantra, the crows kill the owls, by deceit, no morals. The verses actually tell to *distrust the enemy at all times. Even the servant who come from the other side will always be wicked*
The masculine nobility gangs would rather "die than be subdued". No. Would you rather live and see to the defeat of the enemies or die for "nobility". This is kaliyuga folks. This is not a gigachad dvaapara.
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April 16, 2020
I would like to reread this many times
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