Now people can argue that one comic book series is not going to brainwash the children of India, but this might serve as a bigger problem for immigrants or children living in, say, Western countries or Indian kids all around the world who had these comic books as one of the only ways to connect back to their culture. Now, since this is a comic book series, there are pictures to accompany the texts within the books
Pavitra Menon
@pavitramenon · 0:34
Hello. Yes, I really resonated with this topic you chose and especially the underlying colorism, which is there in all these children's books, maybe a person of color and seeing all the evil characters and the villains are portrayed as having darker skin than, say, the main protagonists are the heroine. It was just very disheartening to see. And I'm just really after you talked about this topic and I'm looking to more swallowed from you
Diya Patel
@diyapatel264 · 1:32
Yeah. I agree with you about Amar Amar, Amar, Amar Chitra Katha below the veil opportunity to let every single individual know that Fanatana Hindu Dharma does not disagree discriminate whatsoever. I mean, take Aali, for example, she is black in color or Kala Berthawa. He is the God of time, and he's also black in color. So Hinduism is very inclusive. And we respect females and males the same way. And the LGBTQ plus community the same way as well
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
aayushi chawla
@aayu · 0:45
Yeah. Obviously, these comic books are just one representation of Hinduism. And the thing is, Hinduism does not have, like, a central dark doctrine or like one book to go off of, like, say, the Quran or the Bible. Therefore, the creators of these comics were very well within their right to create an accurate depiction of Hindus and without these prejudices. But they just chose not to. So that's especially like Disheartening, because they had the ability