I have been thinking about @ShashiTharoor ‘s statement that post independence history was put to use in ‘nation-building’. I think this is perhaps the first time anybody from Congress or Congress ideology has accepted this fact. I applaud Shashi for his candidness.
This statement opens many layers of debate. Was history manipulated to employ it in the service of ‘nation-building’ as @ShashiTharoor describes it? Or was it manipulated to ‘buy’ peace? We’re we successful in buying peace? Whom were we negotiating ‘peace’ with?
The country had just been divided. Those who had wanted to divide the country had been successful. They had their own country. We were going through our own brutal Holocaust. Why were we still negotiating peace? Why were we manipulating history?
This question too was answered by @ShashiTharoor when he said we did not want to become Pakistan.They teach their children fake history therefore Pak is what Pakistan is now- a cauldron of hate and instability. But answer to fake history is not another version of lies but truth
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