Erasing histories and renaming cities does not signify genuine decolonisation or progressive thinking. Instead, it perpetuates exclusionary narratives and social divisions.
It appears that our history is a laundry list of invasions and battles lost. There is little emphasis on the strong resistance we put up or the battles we won.
Swapna Liddle’s The Broken Script examines the state of Delhi from 1803-1857–a time when the two regimes overlapped–and the trauma left behind by the revolt.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
1. How is this author defining modesty then? The writer seems to be a liberal feminist having an agenda to make nationalism a problem while sitting in Oxford as an elite.
2. What is wrong in having a cultural and ideological agenda? Britishers did Brexit with a similar agenda-even today.
3. How would one define or conceptualise de-colonisation sitting in AC rooms writing in British English amongst the colonisers as an elite liberal ?
If the current political ideology based on exclusions is taken to its logical end , you will end up with nothing but a new caste system where the followers of minority religion will be treated as lower caste citizens and all Hindus become upper castes.
Decolonization means nothing if you dismiss something without studying it. There were positives and negatives in colonization. To reject positives from it and reinvent a revisionist understanding of history based on hindsight is travelling in the wrong direction. Not something seekers of truth should undertake. This is the land where we believe that knowledge can come from all directions. In pursuing decoloniality , we loose that belief for our own peril.
I hope you have never written from an AC room.
decolonisation can wait – de-Islamization of bharatham needs to continue at a faster pace.
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1. How is this author defining modesty then? The writer seems to be a liberal feminist having an agenda to make nationalism a problem while sitting in Oxford as an elite.
2. What is wrong in having a cultural and ideological agenda? Britishers did Brexit with a similar agenda-even today.
3. How would one define or conceptualise de-colonisation sitting in AC rooms writing in British English amongst the colonisers as an elite liberal ?
Kindly answer without getting defensive.
If the current political ideology based on exclusions is taken to its logical end , you will end up with nothing but a new caste system where the followers of minority religion will be treated as lower caste citizens and all Hindus become upper castes.
Decolonization means nothing if you dismiss something without studying it. There were positives and negatives in colonization. To reject positives from it and reinvent a revisionist understanding of history based on hindsight is travelling in the wrong direction. Not something seekers of truth should undertake. This is the land where we believe that knowledge can come from all directions. In pursuing decoloniality , we loose that belief for our own peril.
I hope you have never written from an AC room.
decolonisation can wait – de-Islamization of bharatham needs to continue at a faster pace.