NOTHING MAJESTIC AFTER ALL

NOTHING MAJESTIC AFTER ALL 

There is nothing majestic in being king or queen anymore in today's democratic world and yet people show undue respect to the British royal line steeped in colonial carnage the world over. Is there any greater sacrilege of the human spirit than to show such undeserved reverence to a seat drenched historically in a deluge of the blood of the conquered, in a depredation of foreign resources on a scale unprecedented in history and unsurpassed since, and in a brutalisation of the vanquished with a savagery seldom, if ever, seen in history? You may curtsy to the Queen if you like. I, for my very life, if it be on the line, will never do it. God save the soul of man from the savagery of such sovereigns !

Written by Sugata Bose