Through the time of our primary and secondary school
education all of us have by ourselves built an idea of what our country
represents. This might be the general notion the society in which you grew up
has in their mind. A thing that happens when you start to travel outside your
native land is, that you see how different things are; in different parts of
the world. And in India, things are wayyy more different from one place to the
other.
This has always made me ask myself, what are we, or rather what
does this nation stand for, only to find myself perplexed. But it didn’t matter
that much, even when once my Professor Dr Reuben Wong asked us, discussing the
difference between China and India with Europe, is India a group of small nations,
or is it one single big nation.
But recently, after seeing some rather uncomfortable claims made by some religious propagandists, and
politicians who use their support to their advantage, I started to feel the
necessity to define at least to myself, what is our nation, and what does it
stand for…
It is high time I did this to myself, before I start
believing the false histories and stories that float around on the internet,
teaching people very wrong ideas of our “history, and culture”.
More on this in the real article, please do share your
thoughts!
