Pranali Patel's Blog

Story Lab: Stories and Friends   is what I choose to do my Story lab in this week. The first ted talk just touched my heart. I really understand where Chimamanda comes from. Everyone has stereotypes about countries they have never been to and about the people. Everyone has assumption made from just ’single story’ that people hear. I understand both side of the story, I get Chimanada’s side of how people thing of her country and that is the same thing that I also hear about India. I understand that if you have not been somewhere you just have your image of how it might be, everyone does. A ‘single story’ is the best title that this Ted talk can have. Depending how you start a story can really change up everything. I really enjoyed this video. The second video was also very interesting, she stated all the things that we all know but we still do it. Such as talking to the tv even thought the tv doesn’t listen to you. Another thing that I liked that she talked about is u...

Mahabharata:Wife of the Five Pandavas. Source. Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913) At first Draupadi had five men she would possibly marry, one by one they were all being considered to be the husband in her swayamwara which is pretty much the epics version of the bachelorette. Then we later find out that Draupadi was a reincarnation of a women who prayed five times for lord Shiva to be her husband in the past life but that could not be. God then rewarded Draupadi in her current life to have five husbands because of the five times she prayed. The five Pandavas that were going to be her husband were also Indra who were reincarnated. She then married each of the five Pandavas one by one. The age was considered when deciding which Pandava would be first to marry Draupadi. I found this reincarnation very interesting, she didn’t get her wish in her passed life but she was blessed with this in her current life. All of the Pandavas got gifts as tradition because these ...

Mahabharata: Pandu and His Wives . Source. Indian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913) 'Pandu and his wives' had so many things happened that really grabbed my attention. Such as deers being in the form of Brahmin and his wife and the king having two wives. So one day the king was going shooting and his target was the deer. He was some deers and decided to shoot them. He just thought they were regular deer but he was wrong. The deer were really Brahmin and his wife. One surprising thing about this part of the story is that when the “deer” was not blaming the king for shooting the deers or for injuring them but what he did not like at all was the time he shot the deer. He named that act as being cruel because the king shot the deer in the middle of intercourse. He thought that was not good at all. He should have waited to kill them. I was surprised by this because the deer did not mind getting hurt at all, he was just really angry of being hurt in the middle of s...