History vs His+story (Her as well, needless to say)! 🤔🔍🙃
~a SwamyView na’note’
Nemiji’s view was that when we talk of history, we talk of wars and dynasties, but during the same period in history, a lot of creative achievements have also been made; classics have been written; languages have been developed but history takes little notice of them. It only notes who won the war, who became the king.
Vinoba Bhave has said that, “We say that Tulsidas was a great poet who happened to live in the time of Akbar the great. Why can’t we say, sometimes, that during the time of a great poet Tulsidas, lived emperor Akbar?”
~excerpt from Nemichandra Jain’s Birth Centenary article by Sonal Srivastava in the ‘Speaking Tree’ supplement of Times of India.
It’s just a subtle shift in perspective, i.e. History vs His+story or Her+story or Its+story. But this subtle shift has the potential to change our perception of everything we think we know so far, forever, for now we suddenly awaken to the possibility that there’s another way to perceive everything in existence, without being burdened by what is known based on how the known has been perceived by some historian or writer of the past. That very thought itself is kinda liberating, isn’t it!
~Swamy | @PrakashSwamy
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