Armstrong
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Dude, how are you supposed to know which is the right history. The one that is portrayed by Zaid Hamid or Najam sethi; If one tries to understand 1971 through established history and 3 million rapes, it is very daunting; What about blood and tears; that's considered a propaganda work isn't it?
Likewise, what to say of TNT, are those records of Muslim persecution considered to be true, pirpur report, Most Indians who know about history deny any such happening and I have yet to see anyone argue for it. It does seem like a ploy, that all was oblivous to such going ons untill a private investigator was hired one day
First off there is no such thing as 'established' history; history is, to be brutally honest, a cauldron of disjointed facts that you pull out of to support your opinion & give your narration of events as you understand them to be. Were it anything otherwise then there wouldn't be grave disagreements on even the most basic of narrations between established historians & investigative journalists.
The Pirpur Report, Bangladesh & even the Two Nation Theory falls into the same category !
The Litmus Test of the sincerity of any credible narrative lies in the 'evidence' it puts forth not postulations & blanket statements one after the other in a fine circular argument that both sides have a tendency of doing.
P.S The Pirpur Report can be substantiated further by those who lived through those times & the counter arguments provided in the Press Notes were without any evidentiary support to counter the Committee's findings ! Ask any octagenarian who lived through those times, I have asked my fair share of them, how things were during the Congress Ministries & you'd get a first hand account of those things.
P.P.S Our failings as a Nation lies in our failure to produce a 'counter-narrative' & their success as a Nation lies in expounded their 'narrative' with such exuberance & frequency that ours got drowned out ! The same is true of '47, the years leading up to '47, of '48, of '65, of '71, of Siachin, of Kargil, of '02, of Kashmir, of Balochistan, of Afghanistan & our role in the so-called Afghan Jihad ! We never argue our 'point of view' & our 'narrative'.
P.P.P.S A desire to learn the past is indeed commendable for it gives us a view into where we 'come from' & where we 'may go' but a proper 'appraisal' calls for a genuine desire to deconstruct events & get to the bottom of things. We are, I'm afraid, far too gullible for that - the Islamists & the so called Intellectuals - Both ! We end up pandering to & parroting someone else's rhetoric with such ease & such faithfulness that it is revolting to see what 'intellect' has come down to !
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