HANDS OFF FROM REWRITING HISTORY THE UNHISTORICAL WAY !

HANDS OFF FROM REWRITING HISTORY THE UNHISTORICAL WAY !

Raising cultural divides has one great disadvantage. It excludes great cultural attainments of the ages through a fractured understanding of history. The inclusive approach is the only way by which heritage may be preserved despite the tyranny of pertinent times which may have given birth to them. The scientific approach to history may not be thus tampered by shallow thinkers or thugs masquerading as such, and history cast into the gutters of their imbecile thinking.

The population must be taught the true history of a nation, true, but by whom? Foolish politicians and their corrupt cronies who have scant understanding of academics and have only a political agenda to pursue? No, this cannot be for it is counterproductive and pregnant with the possibilities of grave harm which the erstwhile slanted chronicling of history may not have quite brought about to that extent. What is needed, therefore, is intellectual build-up in a polity before such drastic steps in the rewriting of history is attempted.

'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread' is an old adage that is always good to remember when exhibiting hyper-bravado in cultural restatement. More often than not such misadventures terribly backfire, allowing history to slide back into darkness from where it takes quite a while to rescue past glory, deemed inglorious for the while through refracted vision. Hence has it been said that 'discretion is the better part of valour'. So, hands off from rewriting history, I say. Let historians, even Marxist qualified ones, do their job. You, bunch of ignoramuses, stand aside and pray. That is your preferred vocation these days and that is what you are best qualified for if indeed you are.

Written by Sugata Bose