About 170 km from Punjab’s capital, Chandigarh, lies the small town of Kapurthala, where every Dussehra, a group of young men wear black armbands to protest against “Raavan Dahan”, the customary ...
The saturnine effigy of ‘Raavan’ stands small and scuzzy. It no longer looks able-boiled as was years before and stands at one corner conspicuously mocked by the children of its grotesqueness; in ...