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Week 9 Story : How to Get Away With Murder

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                  I recently started watching the famous ABC Tv show, how to get away with murder and it is actually a pretty decent show. There are so many crimes as well as mysteries that take you on an adventure with many rollercoasters of stories and spin offs of the details.           Relating this tv show with one of the Jatakas we have read, I have made up my own story regarding this relationship and it is described in the following sentences. The whole show starts off by introducing the characters and having them all in a setting that is a law school. A girl name Rebecca Sutter is the narrator of the show and takes us through the plot and introduces us to all of the main characters known as the Keating five. Rebecca Sutter also gives us the insight of who killed  her best friend, Lelah Stanguard and the person in charge of the law school, the most famous professor, Annalise’s husb...

Reading Notes : Mahabharata, Part B

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The Pandava princes went into the forests that they were kicked to while Draupadi followed and joined them. Later, Yudhisthithira decided to join and then Surya joined the forest and fed them as they didn't have much to eat. The Pandavas resided in the woods for the longest time and it was their twelfth year living there. The Pandu brothers were the grandsons of Vyasa and Vyasa was the author of Mahabarata. Additionally, he came up with the Vedas and Brahma told Vyasa that Ganesha is the scribe and Ganesha put a requirement on this offer and said that he'll be a scribe when he is given the ability to be immortal and not ever die. Brahma passed up on this offer and told him to take another request. That's when Ganesha asked for only if his pen was made continuous. Brahma agreed to that request and they both agreed and Vyasa introduced him to Vaishampayana who was his disciple. Vaishampayana sacrificed a snake in order to take up this request and then took the snake...

Reading Notes : Mahabharata, Part A

King Shantanu (Hastinapur) met Ganga and they fell in love and all their children were drowned in the river up until their eighth child who King Shantanu stopped since he was getting annoyed that she kept killing all the children. The reason she did it was because she believed in the Vasus and that they are supposed to kill them up until the eleventh. She also left King Shantanu since they married each other on one condition - no matter what she does, he cannot get mad at her and he agreed up until the point that she killed the eighth child and when he got onto her about it. The eighth child, Devavrat grew up around his father and ended up being taken good care of up until he grew up older. He later grew into a young Bhishma and ended up taking the responsibility of the entire village and grew up to be a noble, and powerful man who grew up without his mother. This made Bhishma not like growing up without his mother and the fact that everyone kept wondering about whether or not h...