"The wise man does not
rest by the roadside inns."
—Swami Sivananda (Indian,
1887-1963)
Word for the day
Gramarye (n)
Occult learning; magic
Malice towards none
PM Modi invited his friend
Shinzo Abe directly to Ahmedabad, to keep him away from RaGa's charm!!
First random thought this morning
"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial,
compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly
and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this
as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be
avenged."
Abraham Lincoln (in the context of The American Civil
War of 1861-1865)
Whose history is it anyways!
A couple of days ago, the deputy CM of UP Shri Dinesh Sharma
reportedly emphasized that Mughal emperors were not our ancestors but looters
and the Uttar Pradesh government would change the syllabus accordingly to
reflect this fact.
"Mughal rulers were not our ancestors but looters. We
consider Mughal rulers who did wrong acts as looters. Those who have done good
work, we praise. Babar and Aurangzeb were looters. We do not oppose Bahadur
Shah Zafar as he extended support to Mangal Pandey," Sharma told reporters
here.
He reportedly said the government planned to bring "necessary
changes" in the school syllabus. "If Akbar had done any good work, it
will remain in pages of history. It will be historians who will decide what
place Akbar gets," he said.
"A culture where a son kills his father for the throne or the
hands of Taj Mahal builder are chopped off cannot be our culture. Our culture
honours artistes and scientists. Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is credited for the
successful nuclear test, and we honored him."
As per media reports, the UP CM Yogi Adityanath had also stated in
May that Akbar, Aurangzeb and Babar were invaders and that the problems of the
country would disappear after the truth is accepted. He had in the same event
also called Maharana Pratap, Guru Gobind Singh and Chhatrapati Shivaji role
models.
Recently, Maharashtra state board had removed a chapter on the
Mughals from its class VII history books.
These recent assertions of BJP leaders have been mostly seen from
the prisms of secularism vs. communalism, bigotry vs. nationalism, majoritism
vs. inclusiveness.
The critics have highlighted this as a dangerous trend and attack
on the very core of the pluralistic and diverse Indian society. In their view,
this could damage the social fabric of the country beyond repair thus
endangering the integrity of the country itself.
The supporters are terming it as renaissance of sorts, whereby all
malefic distortions, digressions and misconception created by the left leaning
elite about great Indian history would be corrected, ending the whole debate
over secular vs. communal divide and great Aryan invasion theory. In their
view, these corrections should pave the way for holistic progress of the
country.
In my view, the debate suffers from myopia aggravated by deep
prejudices, insecurities and complexes. Hence, I find this debate at political
level totally frivolous and avoidable.
Usually, I would not bother about issues which in my view are rather
frivolous to the present day socio-economic context. But given the intensity of
the debate and potential economic fall outs that it could have, I need to
review my investment strategy in this light....to continue
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