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The hardest part to listen to is the conceiving of Dhritarashtra and Pandu. Not only is it so awkward but also they were so scared...

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Exploring the Impact of Soft Skills in Engineering Education: A Case Study in Lucknow.

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BPCL Ambalika at Burmamines installs touchless sanitiser dispenser

BPCL Ambalika at Burmamines installs touchless sanitiser dispenser

Jamshedpur: With a view to providing its customers a safe and pleasing environment amidst Corona pandemic, BPCL Ambalika Automobile at Burmamines in Jamshedpur has installed a Touchless Sanitiser Dispenser on is premises.

The proprietor of BPCL- Ambalika Automobiles D K Singh told Town Post that this dispenser has been installed in order to provide customers a complete safe environment.

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Genderbender for Ambika and Ambalika?

Amba’s brothers expect to be routed by Bhishma the mighty; but the mercy offered them by Hastinapur’s heir takes them by surprise. Vichitravirya is only a boy, after all, barely as old as they are--and his smile is shy, and his eyes lonely. It is the least they can do to take him under their wing, and within days they have forgotten altogether that they first met in a quarrel. Instead they linger, supposedly to keep their sister company; but in truth days pass at a time before they look upon her, particularly when there is Vichitravirya and his malleable moods to take up their attention instead. 

“But Salwa--” Amba protests, only once, but they wave her indignation away.

Salwa is nothing to what Hastinapur can promise their kingdom; and besides their new friend is worth ten of their sister’s sweetheart. In time, she’ll see this; just as they do, and until then, they can have him all to themselves.

And so Amba finds herself abandoned, in this as in every other world; but she is no less helpless. With every breath, she prays for the Kurus’ destruction, and with every smile, she counts the moments until her husband will slip up, and for once accept wine or food or water from her hands--

Husbands don’t last as long as they used to, after all. No more than a brother’s love. 

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Ambika and Ambalika for Three promises she broke and one she did not OR Three things she learned from her mother, and one she taught her children

1. “We will keep Hastinapur ever unrivaled in our hearts,” they recite before the sacred fire, “and leave the loves and lives of our maidenhood behind”; and the Queen Mother Satyavati’s dark face shines with satisfaction.

But when their sister storms at the gates, fearsome Parashurama in tow, Satyavati orders them to go out upon the walls. “For,” she says, “when your she-fiend of a sister sees how your happiness is Hastinapur, even she must retreat.”

Ambika looks at Ambalika, Ambalika at Ambika, and as one they shake their heads. They might not join Amba’s rebellion, and for that Satyavati should be grateful; but no more will they prevent it. 

2. “He won’t notice,” Ambika tells her maid. “Years he’s spent in the poor light of the forest, years he’s grown his hair matted over his forehead so he can’t see a thing through it--”

“And even should he, he’ll only send you back to us,” Ambalika adds from her couch. “You have our word on it.”

The maid nods, but she is clever enough not to believe them; and that, both princesses of Kashi think, is all for the best. 

3. “They laugh at us,” Dhritrashtra says, his voice high and trouble. “At me and Pandu both, whenever they think we won’t notice. Why? Aren’t we princes? What’s wrong with us?”

Ambika hisses in surprise, but Ambalika reaches down to pull her nephew close, and her son, too. “There’s no fault to be found in either of you,” she says, more firmly than she would have thought possible. “I promise.”

&1. “We’ll stay with you until your dying breath,” Satyavati’s daughters-in-law promise her, and in fact they do: but whether their actions are born out of reluctant love and loyalty, or a desire to see the harridan safely dead before them at last, none but the winds or the wilds might tell you. 

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For 5 AUs: A fix it where Amba and her sisters actually have happy lives?

(Shoutout to @walburgablack‘s take on this! Which is better than this, IMO.)

1. Bhishma is delayed, long enough for Amba at least to slip the marriage-garland around her chosen groom’s neck, and Ambika and Ambalika scarcely have time to look about the hall beneath lowered eyelashes before they are whisked away.

Hastinapur is a dizzying blend of new faces and new rules, but at least they do not have the worry of a sister’s uncertain fate hanging over them. It leaves them time to notice and return their new husband’s shy glances.

Are you certain? Amba writes from Salva, concise and crisp as ever. Say the word and I will have my husband take you away. 

(So she might pretend, but both her sisters know it’s far more likely Amba will lead the war-charge herself. It is simply her way.)

Yes, scrawls Ambika in return, and beside her, more carefully, Ambalika adds, Thank you.

2. Bhishma is delayed, enough for all three girls to choose their future grooms. 

Amba spends her life as Queen of Salva, ever prepared with a complaint about the latest way in which her feckless husband has displeased her; but she raises her children in her image rather than his own, and is praised for it by the generations to come. 

Ambika marries into Panchal, and never regrets it. The Panchalans might have quite the temper, but they are all kind in their way; and besides Ambika is quite used to her older sister. She lives among her distant kin, safe and sound.

Ambalika chooses a Yadava prince, obscure in the political sphere but comely and clever; and is perfectly happy to leave behind echoing halls and machinations. When upheaval finds her at last, in the form of Kamsa’s coup, her sisters come to her rescue, ensuring her safety and the restoration of the throne, as they would for no one else. 

3. “A faithful wife should follow her husband even until death,” says Ambika slowly, and after a quick look in her direction, Ambalika nods her consent. 

Queen Satyavati cannot deny such a sign of wifely devotion, carefully made in the midst of the royal court, which means that all that must follow is a quick whisper in a tunnel-maker’s ear, a coin slipped into a sympathetic servant’s hand.

Vichitravirya’s pyre burns, but his widows do not burn with it. Instead they make their way through the tunnel dug beneath the flames, towards the copse of trees where their sister waits. 

4. The baby, when he is born, is slight and swarthy, but what does that matter?

The throne of Hastinapur has its heir, a minor miracle brought about by Ambalika, and its queen mother can make no more demands on either sister. The whispers of proposed niyoga waft away, and Satyavati’s head tilts with deference to the new queen mothers. 

“We’re safe,” Ambika whispers into her sister’s hair, half-delirious with relief. “We’re free.”

5. Amba does not go to Parashurama in the end, or even to the god Shiva.

Instead she takes her grief to Mother Ganga, weeping her tears into the river’s waters until the waves part  and a beautiful woman stands before her.

Amba wants to tremble, until she looks closer; the woman’s mouth might be stern, but her eyes are kind.

“Tell me,” she says, “what you desire.”

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Heyy, Apples to Drabbles, Exquisite (Mahabharata)

The daughters of Kashi are said to resemble a set of dolls, created precise and perfect in their symmetry with each other. Surely the beauty of any one would lessen if separated from the others, a description so exasperating that the sisters, for all they love each other, solemnly promise each other to choose distinct mates at their swayamvara. 

All the world knows how that resolution ends; Amba, never known for oath-breaking, keeps her word, while her sisters do not. 

This is the problem with exquisite things: they break far too easily. The princesses of Kashi consider themselves resilient instead.

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