YouTube video by SriLankan Airlines
Relive the epic of The Ramayana Trail
The op-ed shows what SriLanka thinks of India's imperialist merging of mythological Lanka/Ravana with reality, ignoring local stories. Watch the ad below.
youtu.be/2SUXqcjFIgI?...
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‘Ramayanizing’ Sri Lanka by Courtesy of SriLankan Airlines
(The author is on X as @sasmester) SriLankan Airlines’ five-minute commercial promoting the so-called ‘Ramayana Trail’ in Sri Lanka is being accepted very naively as an enticing and heartwarming adver...
"Why would SriLankan Airlines be so north Indian & Brahminical, & willingly succumb to the dominant & exclusivist version of Ramayana promoted by the Indian state... in exclusion of all other narratives in India itself?" this oped asks about a recent ad.
island.lk/ramayanizing...
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Who do you think this looks like? To me it's Sanam Marwi, the Pakistani singer. But a friend with funnier eyes said it looks like Nita Ambani!
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If only we had a real photo of Benazir Bhutto in the world...
P.s. who is this??!
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