Its been raining cats and dogs in Delhi for the last two days and well the drop in the temperature has not just brought some relief to the weather but has also brought some smile on my face. I really don't know what is it that I am upbeat about but I guess its just one of those days when you feel positive and glad to be where you are and what you are doing.
I am not a really a bookworm but somehow I managed to gather courage to read the first book of the Harry Potter series (the truth is that I really never understood the movie and was feeling sort of ashamed that I wasn't able to follow something which kids one fourth my age really are going ga-ga about! And so it was high time I matched up to them!! ). I have just gone through the first few chapters of it and I must say that the author has some really wild and interesting imagination.... but I don't know how many have found some similarity between the events in the life of Harry Potter and our own Lord Krishna.
The fact that,this boy was hated by a powerful and evil guy and inspite of his attempts to kill baby Harry, the baby survives and is left at the doorstep where he can be taken care of, is very close to what the mythologies describe about the life of Krishna. I don't know if that was in anyway an inspiration for J.K.Rowling but definitely the popularity of the book and the movie shows that possibly Krishna lives in the imagination of not just Indians but also the other races and it is a character which all love to believe and identify with!
1 comment:
Quite possible.....I have read all of the Harry Potter series and didnt quite make the connection. At the end of the day its all about good fighting the evil. The books are really good....I like them better than the movies.
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