City Faith - Ravan is Alive, Vasundhara Valley Apartments

City Faith – Ravan is Alive, Vasundhara Valley Apartments

City Faith - Ravan is Still Alive, Vasundhara Valley Apartments

The immortal life of the king of Lanka.

[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]

It is the morning after Dusshera. The king of Lanka is again dead.

Ravan was burned last night in the lawns of Vasundhara Valley Apartment, a residential complex in the National Capital Region of Delhi.

The late king’s innards are lying across the cold wet grass of late October. A little boy in school uniform is seated on a swing, which is making a creaking sound. The boy is quiet. There is no one else around.

It took 20 days and eight people to create the Ravan of Vasundhara Valley Apartments. Everyday, school-going friends Prakher Josan, Mahak Goyal, Sejal Sharma, Shubham Sachar, Palash Tayal, Paridhi Narayan Singh, Anurag Nirbhakar and Shreyas Negi took out an hour each from their busy academic schedules to bring the king of Lanka into life.

As happens in any war, all the hard work was burned in a matter of minutes. Nevertheless, the builders of Ravana later held a private pizza party. The venue: stairs of the T Block. The vegetarian pizza was ordered from Domino’s.

About 12 hours later, while all of Ravan seems to have turned into ashes, three and a half of his ten faces have miraculously survived. Could Ravan be alive? Perhaps the king of Lanka is hiding in one of these flats. He might reappear next year, if not sooner.

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