Seeing Asoka in the game Civilization 4, I could not but feel happy. At last, they got something right. I cringed at the "spiritual" (I mean, this is, whatever the pillars say, a man who managed to conquer his way to history), but still, at least they knew someone besides Gandhi. And then I noticed, of course, that Gandhi was still "our" leader. And spiritual.
And that instead of SEALS, or horse archers, we get a "fast worker" as our special unit:
Don't worry for long. Virgin comics seems hell bent on making our stories safe for teenagers again. We won't get beat in school. After all, these are not the gods you remember. Can you recognize Rama, Ravana, or the fiercely realized Raksasas (who owe quite a lot to Orcs in the latest offering?)
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OH I get it, parallelism. Rama/Ravana would be so much cooler as leaders. Vanakkam SanskrtnAdu-[*m]
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