India, Oct. 5 -- Every festive season of Dashami heralds newer faces of Ravana, newer definitions of demonhood .

What with India's Asia Cup award episode, it would seem that the proverbial "Ravana" narrative rolled out a cameo tad early this season. On Dussehra eve, that is.

While the Ravana of the past had displayed distasteful demeanour of trundling off with a prized wife, the present Pakistan Cricket Board chief and the country's federal interior minister Mohsin Naqvi was reportedly thought to display a decided disposition towards trooping out with a prized trophy.

The episode was further imbued with flavours of an alleged modern-day "Ravana" narrative, what with the prime minister likening it to an "Operation Sindoor" moment riding...