Histories of humankind have often been marred
with vicious clashes between interpretations of “TRUTH” as experienced by
different people in different geographies in different times of evolution. Each
war has been an attempt to wreak its own school of thought over the larger
anthropological community.
Though no victory has ensured an incessant vigor
to any version held by any erstwhile or contemporary society, history still
seems to be punctuated by the wars & clashes which in quieter times are
remembered through glorious tales of its martyrs & heroes rather than gory
memoirs of devastation & misery. Does
this mean that the present blueprint of our own history itself sows the seed of
future design of a world crafted by bicker & intolerance of plurality?
A vista of bygone eras & its encrypted
glorious tales reveals that they have not only captured the greatest truths but
also the lies. But what disturbs me as a novice in subject matter is the fact
that most of these tales have not been written by the heroes themselves who
fought the war. Rather, our history has either been documented by a passive
viewer or is a result of passionate pursuit of someone who wants to relive the
era gone by through his own perceptual prism.
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