Resurrecting hope: The spirit of Easter in an eggshell
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Rehana Munir Apr 20, 2019 11:31 PM IST
Easter is an uplifting symbol of human resilience against despair and darkness
I must confess it’s Amitabh Bachchan’s face that first springs to mind when I think about Easter. Anthony Gonsalves breaking out of a giant egg, gibbering about “a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.” (Tharoor, anyone?) Then there’s a flood of other words, images, sounds and tastes, oh the tastes! Like the Eid extravagance after the month-long fasting, Easter doesn’t come easy. Well, it does for the festive opportunists. It’s the people of faith, who brave Ramadan and Lent to reach the promised feast, who bewilder me. It’s like running a race to win a medal when you can get the medal without any of the sweat.
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