Monday 1 February 2010

We The People

Proud to be an Indian...
Ever thought about it? Centuries ago, this land was populated by simple primitive happy men women and children. . Who roamed around wearing hand woven clothes and animal skins. . Hand crafted jewellery. . Cooking in hand sculpted earthen pots. . Eating hand grown crops and self hunted prey. They were far removed from "religion" as we perceive it today. . But artifacts dug out of archeological moulds show that they worshipped what they feared. Or revered. .and besides fire,Lightening, thunder and storm. . They made clay models of near -perfect human forms. .attributing all godly qualities to them. There have been deciphered to have been sculptures and paintings of Shiva and Parwati And Krishna and the Gopis. So. . Presumably. . The original inhabitants of this land. . Were " Hindu". . As we call them today.
Then spread tales of the Golden Land with rivers of milk and honey. . Which attracted invaders of all colours and creeds. . From far off lands nobody knew existed. Persian and Arab invaders bearing names that fill our history books and memories . . Names like Mehmud Ghazni, Muhammad Ghori, Chengez Khan, The Mughals etc etc. Came. Saw. Conquered. Plundered. Built. Destroyed. Re built. And mingled. Until over the centuries. . They become one with the people of this land. And imbibed each others methods and habits. And there was peace again. Peace in Diversity. A new word and a new world was invented.
Then where did it all go so horribly wrong?
We The People. Weapons of mass destruction of Us The People.

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