In Muzaffarnagar, the dice is rolled to save Draupadi's honour

April 09, 2014 11:37

"We'll ensure that Modi does not suffer Draupadi's fate. His honour will be intact.'

A group of villagers in Muzaffarnagar sat around a board playing chausar, supposedly the game of dice mentioned in the Mahabharat.

As they animatedly discussed the upcoming election, plots and subplots from the epic kept cropping up in their conversation.

They seemed to be linking their fortunes at dice to those of Narendra Modi in politics. "We'll ensure that Modi does not suffer Draupadi's fate. His honour will be intact,' said Raj Kumar, a grocer.

Read the report on the Telegraph.

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