LEGENDS

Heroes have it tough. They have a hard life and circumstances do their best to put them in tricky situations. In Greek mythology one of my favorite heroes was Achilles. Disillusioned youth, a magnificient warrior, he was cursed to fight the right war for the wrong reasons. Maybe
even on the wrong side.

Its uncanny how many similarites he shared with Karna of Mahabharat. Incidentally Karn was my favorite hero from the series. Both Achilles and Karna fought on the wrong side in the great war. Both were killed wrongly, through deceit. Both were roumored to be invincible. While Karna was blessed with a magic armor, Achilles went in for the more mythical and less cumbersome, magical river dip. Most importantly inspite of all the circumstances pitted against them, they
went down in posterity as the greatest heroes men have known.