The wife, presumably because she wasn’t a good Hindu, refused to go with those who had won her. So the husband beat her, thus going one-up on Yudisthira, but showing also that he had a serious gambling problem. I don’t know if Yudisthira was drunk when he staked Draupadi, but our Chiniot friend was. Well, he had to be drunk to stake his wife, and even drunker to beat her when she refused to behave. I’m not sure obscure references to the Mahabharata would do the trick, not even in an age when the BJP seems to be riding high.

Source: Pakistan Today April 07, 2019 17:21 UTC