The age old rhetoric of our glorious past and abysmal present is taught in rote to everyone:from the child in grade five who learns that Muslims ruled over the ‘subcontinent’ for four hundred years,to a high school student who laments over how South Korea and Malaysia had adopted our five year economic plans and we couldn’t even successfully see one phase through. Our glorious past consists of rarefied warriors,poets,philosophers,artists and statesmen who have collectively built our people a coffin of glass,where we lie on a bed of roses,in our pretty gown waiting for our Prince to come kiss us awake from our deep slumber.
Except it’s been sixty five years and the Prince is gallivanting elsewhere. Left to our own devices,lamenting and complaining isn’t helping anyone. It’s time to wake up from our slumber and instead of accepting the glass walls of our coffin as a beautiful memorial,we need to break free and critically evaluate our past,and take responsibility for our present.
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