A FEW moments before he died, Karna knew he would lose. And he would lose in the bitter knowledge that, in the end, he was indeed nothing. He felt that he had fought with the courage of a champion, and yet who was he, really? Not a member of the Kurawa family that he was defending. Not a ksatriya like the princes on the Kurusetra battlefield. He was merely someone who, when cornered, could not utter the full mantra that would probably save him fr