There is a particular breed of "intellectuals" in India, normally of the Communist or Leftist breeds, which loves to denigrate and try to degrade all aspects of Indian culture. The epics are one of their favourite targets. They love to try to destroy or somehow taint the image heroes have in the popular imagination.
They are also rank hypocrites.
When Krishna has 16,108 wives, it is sexual exploitation of the wives - no matter the fact that he is an incarnation of saguna God, and thus can keep them all happy and content, because he can take as many bodies and forms as he wishes.
When Draupadi has the five Pandava brothers as husbands, it is now Draupadi who is being exploited. This, in spite of the fact that she once expressed the desire that she had also had the sixth hero, and a brother of these five, as a husband, in addition to the five she already married.
This is quite an intriguing question, actually - if a man marries 1+n (n being integral greater than zero) wives, he is exploiting them. But if more than one man marries a woman, it is the woman who is being exploited! It seems that no matter what you actually do, it is always the woman being exploited in these people's view.
They are also rank hypocrites.
When Krishna has 16,108 wives, it is sexual exploitation of the wives - no matter the fact that he is an incarnation of saguna God, and thus can keep them all happy and content, because he can take as many bodies and forms as he wishes.
When Draupadi has the five Pandava brothers as husbands, it is now Draupadi who is being exploited. This, in spite of the fact that she once expressed the desire that she had also had the sixth hero, and a brother of these five, as a husband, in addition to the five she already married.
This is quite an intriguing question, actually - if a man marries 1+n (n being integral greater than zero) wives, he is exploiting them. But if more than one man marries a woman, it is the woman who is being exploited! It seems that no matter what you actually do, it is always the woman being exploited in these people's view.
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