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Ravan mafia script9/16/2023 The deity wears a white kurta and a silky golden-yellow ‘sela’, the traditional Gond shawl. A group of tribal men and women in colourful attire huddle around the 10-feet elephant next to a broken drain. While the Greeks used their horse to conquer the Trojans, this elephant made of grass and mud and a coat of paint, symbolises a cultural conquest of a different kind.Įvening is setting in and the air resonates with chants of Jai Seva! and Jai Gondwana! A few yards away, sheltered by a vividly coloured pandal, a two-and-a-half-feet tall idol of a man with striking features - his yellow face with a handlebar moustache - is the centre of all veneration. ![]() It stands like the Trojan horse, clamped upon high iron wheels but sans the ominous boding of Greek subterfuge. ![]() In Paraswadi, Gond festivities begin with a procession of Ravan on an elephant float.
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