“My my! Its so dirty here!”
“There are slums everywhere! India is so unorganized!”
“Have you seen the public transport? People are like mosquitoes , crowding in those trains and buses!”
“ Indians ko to ‘class’ hi nahi hai yaar! Thoda to ‘class’ hona chahiye!”
Whenever I’ve had the chance to talk and interact with some foreigners, I’ve found they never put down their country- especially the whites! On the other hand, their curiosity about my country is like, “why are things still so bad in India?” and I laugh and say, “You know, the politics and the corruption here is really bad. Most politicians are illiterates and have come from poor backgrounds!”
“That’s so sad!” The white answers. I can read his mind, inside he is feeling a lot of sympathy for me – POOR INDIANS! And over all this time, I and all my fellow Indians have started loving this sympathy we get from the whites!
I know it’s bad to generalize! All whites are not bad!
But I cannot forget and forgive what they did to my country!
Stripping her off all her riches and giving her the poverty she doesn’t deserve!
Their ancestors are thieves, they robbed her!
They raped my motherland! For centuries!
And I have a moral right and responsibility to hate them!
Now the British might be beating drums about peace, and supporting anti terrorism activities, but we do know what their blood is made up of! Their crooked brains gave us our most precious gift of partition- and we are still paying the price for it! Be it our legal system, education system – our life is still chained – thanks to the British!
All our vedic ways of life, the education system ( gurukul) were perfect and are still perfect to solve our problems! But our intelligence is chained!
We must not forget Thomas Macaulay:he said, "We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, words and intellect."
As the architect of Colonial Britain's Educational Policy in India, Thomas Macaulay was to set the tone for what educated Indians were going to learn about themselves, their civilization, and their view of Britain and the world around them. An arch-racist, Thomas Macaulay had nothing but scornful disdain for Indian history and civilization.
"It is, no exaggeration to say, that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England".
Please do not trust the school history books for the true reference of our glorious past. All the books were and still are manipulated. We are taught the wrong history- the one that only goes to show how India was beaten time and again !
Our young minds are trained not to love and respect our country!
So my brothers and sisters, before throwing dirt at your motherland, please remember- its falling on you!
Be proud of what our India gave us, rather than what we got from west!
unfortunately, that includes, the english language too!
Whew .. that was an engrossing read. I was unaware about this Macaulay character and that despicable statement about a new "class".
ReplyDeleteWhat you say is true. The same colonisers, who today make a big deal about peace and stuff; were the real terrorists of past 5-6 centuries. Although that was the past - and I am not sure whether the current populace of those countries subscribe to the doings of their forefathers. Remember, till date Germans are shameful about Hitler.
Maybe I should be writing a post on this topic since there are several points which are bobbing in my brain right now!
Regarding the other topic in this post - self-bashing. Yes - I think that is in bad taste too. Having said that, it makes no sense to falsely defend our country either. If a white (or any foreigner for that matter) raises the topic of our next-only-to-Yama road sense .. or corruption in politics - then I am the first one to crib about it.
However, I vociferously defend my country when it comes to topics like history, culture .. and more current topics like judicious consumption of natural resources - unlike the west where there is downright criminal wastage of everything from power to fuel to water .. you name it.
You are right about "loving all this sympathy" thing. I think this attitude needs to change .. lest we turn into a self-flogging nation .. on the threshold of euthanasia!
i feel Indians forget too much too easily. if we were to be a class of people who never forgot what others have done to us, our country would have been in a better position. a good, strong memory means 1st n formost , our own politicians cannot take us for granted! "public memory is short!" so, kuch bhi chalega attitude rules the political game at the moment, that would,and should change!
ReplyDelete2ndly, its true we dont need to put blankets on what is bad about our country, we have to face the truth and talk about it! but lets do it internally. as a family, we always keep our problems and troubles for ourselves, we dont go around the society talking about it! people only get a chance to laugh at us. so internal problems of our country should not be exposed to foreigners.
you should definately write and spread the word- we need to get in touch with our history in order to understand our present!
Just what i wanted to say !
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