Changed faith

Chapter 2

Karn and Sahira were on their way to Hastinapur as they spoke to each other, getting to know one another. They were passing through a forest.

" I thought people in Dwapar were 8 to 15 feet tall. Why are you so short ? "

" What ?!. I am almost 10 feet big ! " Karn protested.

Sahira looked at herself and saw she reached up to Karn's shoulders.

" So that means I am taller ..... " she looked very surprised.

" How short are Kaliyug people ? " Karn asked.

" They can reach up to 7 feet.The normal height is 5'8 to to 5'10 " 

Karn laughed " you mean you people are midgets ?!. I myself was 6 feet tall at 10 years old ".

She scoffed " yeah, laugh it up ".

In truth, she was happy that he could laugh at all, after learning the truth of his parentage and birth.

She was glad she could make his life better by knocking some sense into him earlier.

" So..... what are are you planning on doing ? " Karn asked. To him, Sahira was different..... she spoke a lot without the usual reserved tones of women in this era's society. She spoke her mind and made sarcastic comments. He liked her.

" I have an entire knowledge of the future to my time. I can prepare the people to combat the threats that could come to this land in the future, prevent a lot of grief and heartbreak " the contemplative look in Sahira's eyes intrigued Karn " maybe I can help by empowering the people and fixing society first. This casteism thing, the rich and poor divide existed in some places in my time and ruined many lives, and even our governments were corrupt ".

" What was your government like ? " Karn asked in curiosity, since she mentioned that they had no Kings in her time.

" It was a parliament, composed of factions that decided the state of the country. The parliament had 543 seats and you need a majority of 272 seats to form a government or maintain it, and make decisions for the betterment of the country. Those factions were chosen through votes from the public "

" it sounds liberating and fair " Karn praised.

" Not when the government in power in the past was incompetent and corrupt, not when they blackened the names of heroes who sacrificed their lives for this country, not when we lost the Himalayas in war " Sahira grimaced.

" Wait...... WE LOST HIMALAYAS !!! " Karn was infuriated " you mean that the pathetic government lost Himalaya, the abode of my Gurudev's Guru, to foreigners !!!! ".

" it's regions have mixed cultures nowadays and but our religion is still upheld there " Sahira said and grimaced " and you don't want to know what happened to the Ram mandir in Ayodhya ".

Karn paled in horror "..... no, don't tell me they didn't ".

" No, it was a Muslim invader named Babur who tore it down to build his own religious temple called a Masjid. The thing is that even after our freedom from the Brits and Mughals, the corrupt parties in power wanted to secure votes from the Muslim population. The Ram mandir took 70 years to be given approval for and be rebuilt ".