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Betting is in Our Blood |
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by G Swaminathan |
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The entire India seems to be agitated today about the cricket and the mushy gambling. The socalled gentlemen game of cricket had been made into the ‘poorman’s game in this country and gamble had started long back. However, can we say that this type of gambling with the game is something new to India? Not at all. It had started in the Dwaparayuga itself when the Pandavas and its head the most upright and revered gentleman Yudishtra started playing the game of dice with his opponent Sakuni and Duryodhana knowing well that it would not have been a game of honesty. Further, he gambled not only his country and its people; but his entire wealth, brothers and wife too. All these happened when Lord Krishna (avatar) was very much around.
So what is new about it when a supposedly straightforward, honest, law abiding who carried the name ‘Dharmaputra’ himself had fallen a victim to gambling why you find fault with the Kalyug’s most corrupt and greedy mortals for doing it? |
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Dinesh Kumar Bohre 05/27/2013 15:35 PM
G Swaminathan 05/27/2013 11:56 AM
Dinesh Kumar Bohre 05/27/2013 04:49 AM |
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