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Folks,
What I don't understand, after lasting thru all 30 minutes of tonight's episode is: after rescuing all the three Persian royal ladies, how are our Five Musketeers going to get them out of Persia? Probably on Vishuddi's special transport system. In any case I never understood how they got there in the first place!😆
But then Porus is often like a fantasy tale, not a supposed historical. For one thing, the lens setting off a fire was unbelievable then and is equally unbelievable now, with CGI flames leaping to high heaven, and one could not even spot the sun! The CVs rate the IQ of their viewers at about 80, methinks.😡
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Expect a duel between Alexander, now officially designated as a bhediya, or wolf (not, be it noted, a tiger or a lion, but I suppose Alexander should be grateful that it was not siyaar, or jackal!), and Puru, which Puru will of course win, as he is ajeya, aur koyi kaam adhura nahin chhodta.
If he seems by now to have totally forgotten what he came to Faras for in the first place, why that is Puru all over. He is exactly like an unguided missile, going off at unexpected tangents!😉
To revert, he will then cart Barsine et al to Paurava Rashtra, and history be damned!😉 Unless of course Queen Stateira's better sense prevails, and she jibs and refuses to go along.
Alexander is already suspicious about Barsine, after seeing her face blossoming like a sunflower in the sun as soon as she understands how the conflagration occurred. Normally, I would have expected him to have Barsine watched, since she has obviously received outside encouragement, and catch her knight errant when he appears and tries to spirit her away. Which would be why he does not insist on the royal ladies attending the jashn.
But as apna Puru has to always come out on top, I expect they will not show Alexander following up on his initial suspicion.
In the middle of all this, Vishuddi will try to stop Alexander by clawing him, will get a reverse attack of poison and will die, of course in Puru's arms.😉
Finally, I fail to understand why Alexander is to be clobbered for offering the Persians security and prosperity in return for loyalty. Given that all kings, from those days to the 19th century and beyond, always sought to expand their empires - what was the Ashwamedha Yagna all about anyway but an assertion of domination? If you submitted, you survived, if not, you were destroyed - this seems to me to be a very good deal.
In fact Alexander was quite genuine about his plans to merge the Macedonian and the Persian cultures and peoples, and today he sounded almost like a politician on the campaign trail.😉
And after all, Darius had got to the throne not by right of birth, with a lineage going back a thousand years, but by having his predecessor poisoned, and that too only a few years ago. What is the big deal if he was now kicked out?
To revert, Alexander is amazingly soft with the Persians and is openly courting them. They must have had it much worse during the wars of succession after Alexander's death.
The real bhediye, the Mongols, would have slaughtered all the men and flattened all the cities. As would the Huns under Attila. We in India have to be grateful to Skandagupta, who fought off the Huns in the 5th century AD, and Alauddin Khilji who, in the 14th century , fought the Mongols to a standstill in 6 battles.
Shyamala Aunty
Arjun
