New York, March 20 -- Indians grow up reading and listening about boy Krishna's mischievous ways and how he tricked people around him when he was growing up. His great sense of humor and larger than life childhood tales are mesmerizing to say the least.
It is said that as a child he was envious of Radha's fair skin as he himself was 'shyam' i.e. dark/blue. One particular day, Krishna complained to his mother Yashoda about the injustice of nature which made Radha so fair and him so dark. He was crying so hard that the doting mother thought of something that could bring peace to her son. She asked him to go and color Radha's face in whichever color he wanted. Krishna went straight to Radha and applied color on her face, turning her like hims...