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    Vasantha Yogananthan

    Mar 12, 2019 3 minutes
    Aveek Sen

    On October 19, 2018, to mark the Indian festival of Dussehra, the prime minister of India ceremonially shot an arrow into a giant effigy of Ravana—the enemy of Rama, the eponymous hero of the ancient Indian epic the . Ravana’s effigy was installed in Delhi, where thousands had gathered to watch this mythic spectacle of the destruction of evil. By some pyrotechnical sleight of hand, the prime minister’s arrow, although

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