Nonsense Talk II

One of the dangerous things in our life is to discuss History. No subject is as controversial as history.  And History has various tags, various explanations and various interpretations.  Many writers, many versions!

 I still remember in one history class, two students Anurag paswan and Summon bose were talking about the birth day celebrations of famous personalities of our country.  Their discussion is given below:-

Anurag paswan : This year we are going to celebrate Ambedkar sahab’s birthday in our colony.  Will you come and contribute summon……

Summon Bose:  see, I do not have any issue, but why should I celebrate his birthday? What has he done to us? , I have read history!

Anurag Paswan :  He had written constitution , he worked for the….

Summon Bose :  yes, he has done every thing for you, everything….. ……… he had not even participated in freedom struggle, everything is there in history. Moreover, you were also absent in subhash Chandra bose jayanti ---

Anurag Paswan :  What you think, you have only studied history, I too know history and the life of your “bose”.  And  what your bose had done for us ! he formed “forward block “ for upper caste people, forward class, not “backward block or depressed block” for backward class or depressed class.

Summon  bose : Ok, fine! You celebrate the birthday of your own beloved and let me celebrate my own... our history is like that.

That was the interpretation of history from the eyes of the two students. Most of us are like these students. We have very limited knowledge of history with narrow interpretations.

Irony is that we have abundant history in our life. We have Awarn history, sawarnHistory, left history, right history, native history, foreign history, and many more and each history is not without prejudices and provocations.

One bad trend which has come in  vogue that history is not written by historian now a day! Every tom, dick, harry has its own interpratation of history to suit their half baked intelligence and their ill gotten philosophy. These, so called self proclaimed historians, have lee way to write or speak anything without giving convincing logic or any thorough research. These writers have potential to corrupt the gullible and innocent readers who read these books with the blocked mind. 

In pluralist society like India, it is imperative for everyone to understand history with impartial lenses; this will really be a forward step to understand our present . History must not be treated as fiction or B grade sensation Bollyhood story instead it must be taken seriously by writers as well as readers.

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Ramanuj Dubey