While The PM Sorts Out His Rewriting Of History, Here’s What I Wish I Could Re-Write!

So our dearest ruling party has hired a committee to rewrite India’s history. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry about it incoherently for a long time.

Now, now, don’t get confused. As reported by NDTV, the Modi Government has appointed a group of people to dig into history and connect the very first inhabitants of our countries with the modern day Hindus to establish and India is indeed, ‘Hindu’stan and all that we’ve been taught about our land being named after the Indus river, the land of unity in diversity, blah blah is just passing the time till the real deal comes out.

According to this NDTV report above, “The committee’s chairman, KN Dikshit, told Reuters, “I have been asked to present a report that will help the government rewrite certain aspects of ancient history.” The committee’s creator, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, confirmed in an interview that the group’s work was part of larger plans to revise India’s history.”

But hey! This is not fair, I mean they get to rewrote history to glorify themselves but I can’t live in peace without being pestered with 600 messages everyday to link my soul to my aadhar card? Not cool, nope. If only I could rewrite history according to my convenience, what a life it would be! Here’s a list!

First of all the things in the world, can I please re-write my 12th grade percentage? Now don’t go off telling me that board exams aren’t everything and so on. Let’s face it: the education system is such that if you don’t hack it, your opportunities get hampered. And that’s not me whining but stating facts, unless of course you have loads of money or you are a child prodigy in a movie. Then you might have a chance.

So any law written ages ago counts as history right? I’d definitely like to re-write those ‘historical’ laws about marital rape and, of course! the section 377 that the govt has shut its senses to. Not only these but all those policies which make me dependent on the name of my father or husband like I have no existence without any of the two.

You know, if possible I would really like to rewrite all these gender roles that have been printed into our brains. That would be pretty cool, huh? Think of half the issues of this world, poof, vanish into thin air. Everyday would be women’s day then. Maybe I’m being too utopian but a girl can dream. Sigh.

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And oh, how can I forget! Rewrite history from a multi-dimensional point of view and not just about men whining and fighting all through time. So annoying, especially when you realise the amount of amazing narratives that were lost into this muddle of documentation.

Oh, and the Indian elections of 2014 and the American elections of 2016 could also do very well with being rewritten. But then, maybe this is a lesson that we’re learning the hard way. shrugs

Maybe if I could rewrite all this, the situation wouldn’t have come to what it has. Sigh.

Anyway, tell us what would you like to rewrite if you had the power, below!

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