Re: nalupu

Bapa Rao (brao@tis.com)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:24:30 -0700 (PDT)


I believe Draupadi is dark-skinned (her birth name is "krishna") though
I don't think too much is made of this fact.

Bapa Rao

> 
> Sahithi asks if there are any dark skinned literary heroines. Though I
> can't name one off hand, I think there are several.  Most of them are of
> the chaamana chaaya variety, and, of course, have a 'manchi kaLa gala
> mukhamu'. Isn't one of our earliest heroines, draupadi, dark skinned?
> 
> Regards.		--- V. Chowdary Jampala 
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