Today I saw the movie 300, the blog post would make sense even if u haven’t seen it
It is not about the movie .
300 sketches the character, the gory visual of courage & honour of Spartains in war. i use “sketch” as the movie is inspired from a comic book and the visual of the movie u will always remember as flashes or frames( as captured by slow motion)
Made me wonder about the invasion from mighty armies, about history of india and about how little we Indians are taught about it in school.
How many Indian kings do u remember…count them? what you know about momd. Gazni ?
How many time he invaded India?
I don’t what to emphasize the need to remember the trivia of history, what I want to elaborate is why do we know so less of our own history.
This circumspect reporting of history as a story a third person impersonal account devoid of depth and clarity,refusing to discuss the reason & issues which led to the event is at best diplomatic and at worst a ritual to just give u a fleeting cowardly overview of what happened.
Why not tell me the story of my ancestors as it happened if hampi was looted, it s citizen slaved, converted , raped or killed. So tell me. it wont invoke hatred, it will help me get the sense of perspective, see the circumspect description in the link mentioned below.
Read in a couple of lines the history of why a buzzing city of Ancient India was converted to ruins
http://hinduism.about.com/cs/history/a/aa112303a.htm
One cannot deny his past, nor change it but is ignorance bliss? Has history no lessons to teach us Indian? what woudl you feel if the city where you lived and thrived is erased and no one knows why just 500 hundreds years from now.
If ignorance is bliss we shall live in bliss,
But if it is a life withoutknowledge of pride and honour of our proud culture. a rich inheritance which our society refuses to pass on to all.
We live in self denial, most of us
in an illusion whereas there is a separate reality.
Dude,
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You comments on the indian history not being preserved is agreed. but tell me, wen u r told history and u r given evidence using satellite pictures, people start saying that its fiction and fable and nothing is real. this is what happens to history in india. india is secular, which means, all the happenings become associated with an event become local and people want to retain it within their own community. do u think history will increase? i don't think so. we need to change. we all need to change...
ReplyDeleteMaybe the most intriguing situation about Asian culture in general and its multifaceted sides is the sense of different points-of-view.
ReplyDeleteIn Western Culture, History is either this or that! No in-between. Maybe that's why western history is so widespread...
It is treated as a fable in itself. Clean and objetive while your historians may treat your history as it is all histories for real...complex and so full of versions!
Well Y we know less about our own history .. we Indians were always busy in writing the epics and paid less attention in writing our own history .who wrote our History were mostly not Indians so in a way we are used to see India with others eyes not ours..
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