First to Mangal, *****You are getting totally enangled in your own yarn.All that yarn that you have spun takes place after UC ascends the throne. Kalki has dealt with the period immly preceding UC's ascension when RR himself is young.
My yarn begins exactly in the period of PS.I took it further.
****All the manipulations and political marriage necessarily come later and cannot be dealt with at this stage. Do you have any problem in understanding that.
Nobody manipulates from a vaccum.If RR manipulates after Uthama's ascendency to throne,what makes us from beleiving that he did not manipulate before uthamaascended throne?
*****I get the feeling that you somehow want to show Kalki in a lesser light but Kalki is too good for you.
I understand why you get such a feeling.Its because I compared Kalki's work with the best work ever written in any language (in my opinion)But it doesnt mean that i demean kalki.Its an acceptable form of criticism,to compare characterisations of authors from different eras.In my university i am taking marketing course.There virtually we do this everyday.We take up philip kotler,who is the father of marketing and tear him up every day.We ciriticize his Product life cycle concept like anything.
European journal of marketing even published an article titled "Kotler is dead"(he is alive actually)So its normal in every field to compare yesterdays concepts with todays and yesterdays greats with todays.In arts department of my university,it will be a virtual warfare.Nitetzsche will be torn apart there.One guy even dubbed him as a metaphysician and it created such a furore.But he validated his claim with proof.
Initially i thought that they were having revenge on dead men.But then only i realized that they are paying him a tribute by doing so.They will accept scholars,but wont hesitate to criticize their writings with very sharp words.But they have deep respect for these people.If you visit some tamil literary meetings you will hear worse comments than this.But it wont be personal,will be literary.
All that one has to see is whether Kalki said anything that was at variance with known facts at that poin of time when he wrote PS. The answer is a loud NO.
With the outline that was available scores of variants of PS can be written which will go down well with the available facts. Kalki has given one variant and a damn interesting, compelling and credible one at that.
Your yarn can be subject to the same questions that you are raising regarding PS. Given the fact that except the outline the finer details are not known Kalki's conjecture is far more credible than yours.
There is a huge difference between the crown prince and his brother. Till KK was alive RR would have had little need to manipulate as he was not the next in line of succession. Logically, therefore it would have been too early for him to master the art of manipulation at that stage.
We do not have absolute facts here but it is far more credible to believe that the real forces behind KKs death were identified only later and that is when counter manipulatins started.
UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE THAT KALKI'S STORYLINE IS AT VARIANCE WITH KNOWN FACTS I HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT YOU ARE ARGUING MORE TO GARNER ATTENTION THAN TO MAKE ANY VALID POINT.
There were no known facts during that point of time.So if we want to compare claims with facts we cannot do so.
We need not get into too much for that,since the RR and vanthiyathevan characterization by kalki is fictional.RR was real,vanthiyathevan was real,but their characterizations like a childish vanthiya thevan and a chocolate hero RR wasnt real.
If you can show me in any page of PS that kalki has claimed that real vanthiyathevan was actually childish and real RR was actually a chocolate hero as portrayed in the novel i will accept it graciously.
There isnt any such claim,since their characterization was a fictional work.
when two people spin yarns how do you find which is the best yarn? There isnt anyway.Both are fiction dude.
also there is no outline to compare my yarn with PS.I never intended to do so.Thats why i titled my version as yarn and not as a counter claim.when there is no ground for comparing how can we compare?
Also PS could have been a manipulator even before uthamas ascendecy to throne.PS already won war in srilanka by then defeating the army of mahinda.If he is innocent he couldnt have done it.Becasue its difficult to win a war without manipulation(you can use the word strategy instead of manipulation.But the meaning is one and same)
Also it isnt credible to believe manipulations started only after karikalas death secret came out.Because uthama must have killed karikala only after seeing that his manipulations were defeated and he was on the verge of losing the throne.Nobody kills without manipulating initially.Killing is often the last resort and not always the first resort.
I gave my yarn to show that this too is a possibility.Thats all.Kalkis RR is also a possibility.But he has clearly branded his work as fictional and i too have done so.
mangal said "UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE THAT KALKI'S STORYLINE IS AT VARIANCE WITH KNOWN FACTS I HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT YOU ARE ARGUING MORE TO GARNER ATTENTION THAN TO MAKE ANY VALID POINT."
cooldown mangal.No need to look anywhere to find out kalkis work was fictional or not.RR was real,Some characters were real,many events were real but rest of all is fictional.Kalki himself hasnt claimed that his characetrization as real.So we too need not do so.