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God's own Bar

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Matsya - It was a fish, the first of the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu   which saves the world from an impending calamity.   Whenever Adharma rears its ugly head, the Lord had vowed that he would visit the earth as our redeemer. No particular holy text specifies  the species of fish he incarnated as, and it was left to the believer to conjure up that imagery . If the Dasavathara   chronicle was ever written in Lakshadweep the tuna would have been the torch bearing avatar for sure. The whole sequence of evolution encapsulated in the ensuing avatars caught the imagination of the scientific world. It was in the 1930s that this plot was copied by the west and the two loggerheads Marvel and DC comics were at each others throats purging out superhero avatars in wanton, attempting to save the world. If Gotham city had Batman, I advocate that we have our very own Tuna man for Lakshadweep and rebrand our coral paradise associated this 'fishy' ambassador. The economy of th...