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Can war be ever justified? This is one question that has disturbed me whenever I reflected on our epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Both have a war as the central action of their plots. There is much justification for the war too. Ironically, gods are involved in both the wars. It is a god, Krishna, who rouses up the warrior spirit of the reluctant Arjuna in the Mahabharata. Duty and Dharma are the justifications. The Ramayana has the same themes. C...
