How many eyes do you have?

Published on 20th December, 2015, in Mid-Day. ‘With a woman by your side, you are like the three-eyed Shiva. Without her, you are the one-eye Shukra, though you may look like the two-eyed Kama.’ Tenali Raman, the famous court, jester is supposed to have composed these lines. Are these words of praise or an insult to a one-eyed warrior or courtier? We can never be sure. In the Puranas, Shiva, the destroyer, is known to have three eyes while Shukra, the guru of the asuras, had only one eye. In the world of mythology, the one-eyed one is known to be creative and intuitive, but ..