Or they are forcing change to refashion the very idea of India to prolong their tenure. Actually, Indians have been chipping away at the past, erasing familiar landmarks and erecting new totems these 77 years. Amit Shah will surely get the history of India emphasising ‘facts about our great past’ that he wants. There are enough obligingly inventive people to make the past live up to present expectations where it doesn’t do so naturally. To conquer the future, Indians must learn to live with their actual past.

Source: The Telegraph January 06, 2024 05:52 UTC