My dear Adiana,
Not necessarily big, the garuda chinna, it can be small if Thappadiya Mai has it on her nazuk ankle, but it has to be visible and easily identifiable,if only for identification purposes. Of oourse there would different levels among the rakshaks, I agree with you on that.
I cannot of course affirm that it is so, and Utkarsh can turn things upside down when he pleases, but somehow I do not think Shivanand is a rakshak, or his mother either. His father was one, and Rudra is one, and as for the rest, we seem to have too many candidates for 5 seats, as in musical chairs! I am not letting go of my dark horse Kuba, not as yet!😉
Maya, as she is now, seems unlikely rakshak material, for things happen to her, she does not make anything happen. And the only times her act is convincing is when she is having an asthma attack!
There was one very significant point daadi made last night. Two, in fact.
First, she told Rudra that the Saraswati Kund had dried up before the 1989 attack by the 'Veshes on the Sri Sant Panth ashram. I had assumed that the drying up was after the attack, and because of it, but now it clearly preceded the attack. A very intriguing point, that.
Two, she mentions that in the course of his researches on the links between the amrit, the Saraswati Kund, and the garuda chinna, Shivanand had been corresponding with several foreigners. Now these were clearly not part of the Cardinal's group, which means there must be a second, "good" group of foreigners involved with all this mystery of the Mahakumbh.
This brings me to the enigma of Katharine, and her satellite phone pal. It is clear that she is not part of Prof. Rao's group, even clandestinely, for he is spying on her. That leaves only
(a) the Secret Society, that is to say, in Prayag, Greyerson, or
(b) if she is a rakshak, as seems to be widely surmised, maybe there is yet another group of "good" foreigners, the ones with whom, as daadi tells Rudra last night, Shivanand was in constant contact, who are seeking to bring the rakshaks to the Mahakumbh and brief them about their mission.,
(c) A third option would be a combo of these two, that Katharine is a mole, or double agent, for the second, good group, pretending to work for Greyerson and the Cardinal.
One thing is for sure, she is not what she seems to be. We have to wait and watch.
As for Ashoka, I shall watch it as long as Siddharth is there. It is bound to improve after he arrives, it can hardly get any worse! As for the NR of Helen (She of the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium would have had a fit if she had sighted this namesake of hers!😉), it is no worse than importing Chanakya into Ashoka's reign, as seems likely to happen, and having characters apparating from Magadha to the North West frontier and beyond to Khorasan at will.
I did not know that in the fourth century BC, there were Persians with Muslim names who say Mubarak ho😡! Darius and Xerxes would be turning in their graves! The whole thing is a worse mess than the latter part of Maharana Pratap, where a gigantic Bairam Khan was shown being defeated in hand to hand combat by a 14 year old Kunwar Pratap in an encounter that never ever happened, and a 14 year old Jalal, already called Akbar, was shown roaming the countryside with Pratap and falling in love with a Marwar princess. I gave up at that point, so I do not know what else they cooked up subsequently.
Shyamala
[adiana12]You knw Shyamala, we are putting a lot of weight on the Garud chinna being big and visible and of rakshaks being mentally in sync with their jobs - as far as what has been presented is that the rakshaks are the protectors of Amrit and there are seven - its also been mentioned that there would be some who are weak - so I feel that there would be levels of strength ala the show Maharakshak on Zee where there are the lower level rakshaks and the maharakshak - so too here we have Rudra as the Maharakshak - and I feel the next level shd see two rakshaks of similar strength which I feel would be Charles and Maya - and the level below maybe Shivanand, Daadi, Thappadiya mai and perhaps Katherine.
As for Greyerson statment on Shivanand's tattoo not being garud - if Shivanand can survive what Greyerson put him thru then can Shivanand not distort his tattoo to mislead the Polish group ??? Also Daadi's angst could be becoz she is a rakshak and is pushing the same away due to events in her past - she seems to be one who is battling a huge inner conflict - one thing is for sure - the rakshaks would not only have the magnetic pull for the Amrit, they would also be pulled towards each other and that does put Shivanand, daadi, maya, thappadiya mai and katherine to being the remaining rakshaks.
As for Ashoka, the helen angle is pure NR, they needed a reason to put Bindusaar in the same vicinity of Dharma and so created the magadha riots, the sp effects are okayish and nothing to write home about and the actors are competent but they have not connected with their characters - they are acting the characters, they are not the characters - but I am giving the show sometime - but story is fast paced and if this pace continues then the senior Ashoka maybe seen by June this year - and they did manage to keep their details right regarding clothes, living space, music and activities of the varied cultures they had shown yesterday - and that is something in their favor.
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