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Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: What do our myths say about winners and losers?

The Times Of India Podcast

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Do You Want to Win?

A lot of things are that justice will be done in our time. But is there anything that tells us that the gods will do it for us at some point? See, justice presupposes winning and losing and fairness. Life is not based on winning and losing. And so morality and ethics is not a natural phenomenon. These are cultural ideas. In mythology like tricksters, like gods who trick can hack and break the system. So justice is about how do I win under any circumstances? How do I pull the person down? Again, I want him to be the loser.

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