A TALE OF TWO RIVALS By Colonel C Mani In Happier Times – Girish and Radhika helping me remove a shuttle from the Roof Top The Mahabharata is replete with stories of human foibles, daring and endeavour. But my favourite story was the one that my friend, Girish Purandare, often recounted to me during the heady days when we did the Young Officer’s Course at Mhow. Girish was a strapping young lad of physically immense proportions but with a heart of gold. Now for the story. Dharmaraj Yudhishtra and his brothers are making the long arduous trek to heaven, and one by one his brothers fall. Finally, only Yudhishtra and his dog reach the gates of heaven. While the dog is allowed entry Dharmaraj has to see hell for a day for having told a truth with bad intent that caused the death of Dronacharya. During his brief sojourn in hell, he finds all his brothers including Krishna ’s favourite Arjuna undergoing the torments of hell....