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

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Is There a Man's Wife?

Durya was a man who couldn't take losing and is there lessons for us from that story? Durya then doesn't lose, he loses the war yes but he doesn't lose the gambling match. It's jealousy. The backbencher feels upset, especially if you are entitled to brat. These are the ideas that the Mahabharata is making us aware of. You don't find these stories very strangely in the Ramayana.

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