A web series that have become Netflix record-breaking web series. Squid game is a South Korean survival drama television series on Netflix created by Hwang dong-Hyuk who wrote and directed all 9 episodes . And after watching the squid game web series, I found some similarities between the squid game web series and the Mahabharata. The most popular scene of this web series is tug of war, where there were two teams. The team of main characters was less strong and there was another team who were much stronger. But at the end of this scene the game shows that the less powerful team wins. The main 3 reasons behind this win are –

1) Good strategy The winning team's strategy was to divide the players into equal numbers on either side of the rope, meaning that if one player stood to the right of the rope and the other players to the left of the row, it would be easier to pull the rope and everyone would be in one line with the first one.

2) Listened to an experienced man This previous strategy was given by Oh il-nah, the 001st player of the squid game and his age was around 77 years. And he played this game many times before as a child.

3) Adopted a new strategy when it was needed (improvisation) This scene shows that when they were about to lose the less powerful team immediately adopted a new strategy and for that the group won.

Now think about these three reasons and for these three reasons we lose some battles of our life because we don't follow these three reasons. The same thing happened in the Mahabharata. There were two groups in the Mahabharata during the battle of Kurukshetra. On one side were the Pandavas and on the other side were Kauravas. The army of the Kauravas was many times greater than the number of Pandavas. At the end of the world the Pandavas won the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata because they followed the same strategy as the squid game. They listened to lord Krishna who was very experienced and they had adopted all the strategies that had been needed. As Pandavas took the help of Shikhandi to kill Bhisma. Also they gave wrong information to guru Drona that his son Aswathama had died in the battle. In that grief Guru Drona surrendered and the Panchal prince killed Guru Drona. And another strategy was, Arjun killed Karna when the wheel of Karna's chariot got stuck in the mud. If the Pandavas had not adopted these methods, their defeat would have been inevitable against the Kauravas. From squid games and the Mahabharata we can learn that no matter how weak you are, and no matter how strong the alliance in front of you, if you use your intellect no one has the power to defeat you, no one has the power to stop you from moving forward on the path of life.

Jay Shree Krishna