Comical History

Funny things happens in India.May be thats why Govinda sang 'It Happens Only In India'.Last Sunday i read somewhere that middle school students of a Mumbai institute are being taught history through Comic books.The Comics being read by students are Amar Chitra Katha and the concerned school is going all gaga over their success with students who earlier used to sleep during their history classes.Yea i have had my share of those lovely naps during history classes and i strongly feel that the new comic books are depriving these students of good-for-health and feel-fresh-afterwards naps.

But these kids are certainly relieved if they have a history teacher like i had in my 6th grade, the orange haired, tall and ogre voiced Mrs. B Kang.I still remember the way she used to torture the history ignorant young souls by single twist of their ear using her long devilish fingers.Ahhh Ohhhh it still hurts.When i passed my 6th grade i was happy that i am passing with both my ears intact in spite of all her vicious plans to make me one eared jack ass or rather dumb ass.

Anyways why i am finding this history through comics idea funny is because students would now see cartooned portrayal of historical figures.I have wondered since my middle school about the looks of the famous kings and queens and apart from emperor Akbar who i always perceive as Prithvi Raj Kapoor (smile Ranbeer your family is getting free publicity), i have never been able to imagine the persona of hundreds of other legends who these days are deemed important merely because some road has been named after them.

So now we would be able to see beautiful Begum Mumtaz Mahal taking bath in the private Hammams of Agra fort. She must be curvaceous and sexy enough to beat Katrina Kaif else students would miss the point that she was indeed so beautiful that someone like Shahjehan took pains in the ass to built TajMahal.

The Comic book about Maurya Empire would be even more sexy since we have seen how Kareena , playing the part of Rani Kaurwaki, rain danced in her skimpy clothes throughout the movie Asoka.And though i liked the movie, i still cannot imagine Ashoka the great as SRK since the actual Ashoka could never have looked metrosexual in his times.Therefore the comics must portray Asoka by someone having six pack abs , broad chest and muscular built since thats what it takes to win battles and build such a large empire.(Don't cry shahrukh over your newly found muscular looks, you remain metrosexual no matter what you do).

When you add so much spice to a subject like history, students are bound to take interest, what else this might start a new trend due to a big line-up of period films ready for release.So my dear students don't be surprised if you have Hrithik and Aishwarya visiting your schools for promoting their upcoming movie Jhodha-Akbar.

Lucky Kids.But still Govinda was right when he sang 'It happens only in India'.

Regards,

khukii