Wednesday, October 12, 2005

On the day of victory

When the world was young, a strong and manly demon arose. He pleased the Gods who granted him victory over all men. He tormented the earth and the Gods themselves.

A woman, frail, weak, challenged him. They fought for 9 days.

On the tenth day, he was destroyed. By devi, Shakti, Mahishasuramardini.

She was woman.

(55 word microfiction on the day of Vijayadasami. More microfiction here and here)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm...Interesting. Do you think Tolkien lifted the Eowyn-and-the-Witch-King episode in LOTR from this?

Iyer the Great said...

Nice.

Rahul

Sunil said...

Vishnu.....Tolkien totally lifted the battle of Eowyn and the Nasgul king from here.....now i'm convinced! Good one....

Rahul, thanks.

Ravi said...

Happy Vijaydashmi.

One of the various versions for celebrating Dassera :)

Minal said...

Happy Vijaydashmi/Dassera to you and your family Sunil:-)Though the wishes come a day late.

Nice one.

Sunil said...

thanks minal. Wish you the same.

Anonymous said...

good one! and happy dusshera (now if I had written this, sumanth of the savewhatever would have accused me of being a feminist. so by writing this, are you a masculist?)

Anonymous said...

Good stuff! But why "frail, weak?"

Sunil said...

thanks Charu. Same to you.

Masculist, huh? Well, well........

Thanks Srikanth......."frail, weak"....because it goes with popular perception of women (stereotype).