By Wahidul Islam for TwoCircles.net
History cannot be repeated neither we can go back to time to check its credibility. We can demonise and discredit the people who will never come back to this world to defend. It is our will and conscience.
Neither greatness of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was less before the renaming of the Aurangzeb Road nor we can deny the fact that the latter was one of the most powerful rulers of India whose Kingdom was so strong that the mighty British were not able to shake it till many generations later.
For some, it may be a proud moment of victory, for some others it is a simple tool to play with the emotions and sentiments of people to play victim card and vice versa. No one can deny the fact that Mughals were the unequivocal rulers of India till the 17th century.
Had they not loved India they could have made their capital somewhere in Samara or Gozny or built Tajmahal and other monuments in places near Central Asia from where they descended unlike the Parsian rulers like Adil Shah or Mohammad Ghuri who invaded India just to loot the wealths and resources, and then returned to their country of origin once they accomplished their missions.
Perhaps for the Britishers only way to hold their footsteps in India was to slowly weaken the Mughal Empire by misleading the common masses by spreading falsity in the name of religion and caste and demonising the Mughals by showing them in negative context.
They succeeded in their goal. Our predecessors had taken those ideas and so does our generation. In fact hatred is a parameter of how much one loves the country or the community. It is all about our people and their people.
It is what British had given us hundreds of years ago. Only difference is that ruling entity has changed. A few big political parties has taken the place of British. We were ruled and we are ruled.
Neither renaming a city or road will solve our problems nor it will bring down the price of mighty onion. Neither it will contain the sufferings of current flood victims of Assam (whom national media has completely forgotten due to renaming controversy and Sheena Bora murder as they make more TRPs) nor it will uplift the millions of malnourished people in the country.
The real fact is that the rulers will continue to sell hatred and enmity and as common masses we will relentlessly buy to be ruled. Hindus and Muslims alike, if you love the nation and community than please stop spitting venom against each other. Share some good words for each other. We can become bigger and greater by inclusions rather than exclusion.