I have been watching a Bollywood movie for a few days now. It ran for a duration of about 2 hours plus, and it wasn’t that easy for me to grab it so quickly. But in the end, I finally got to learn a lot from it. It was actually a movie based on a true-life story.
Though it's a movie, the story portrayed was acted out in a way for the viewers to believe what happened during that time. I got to realize how heavy the burden of colonization was back in those days. It wasn’t easy to gain freedom.
The British Empire in the early 19th century and how much they have always wanted to overrule the world. They actually never wanted any form of unification among African nations because they knew that if we did, then we would be overtaking world power.
The movie portrayed a revolutionary attack by an individual who stood out to take revenge by killing the governor representing the British Empire in India, who gave the order to open fire on everyone at a peaceful gathering. A lot of lives were lost, and a lot were wounded.
This history was so pathetic that I had to believe the British were bad people. The mindset they had then was so terrible, and I am sure that was how they have treated many other nations, too. They claim to be of aid, but instead, they just want to subjugate them.
The worst part of it was that history had it that despite the heavy massacre that happened then, to date, the British never apologized, and the trauma remained in that area to date. That’s just how effective history can be in impacting our existence.
Do we truly have to believe what history says?
To me, I will say it's a choice, and this is because there is actually no true evidence that holds the fact that it happens the way they said it in history books.
It was actually written by someone, and it's either that the writer is writing in their favour, maybe they are writing out of hate towards the winning side, or they are on the winning end and writing against the losing end.
It's just like having the judgment of a case between two individuals. You can't just listen to one side of the story and think that's how it happened. You should hear from both parties, then you will come to know how the case actually happened. Better still if there were witnesses.
I strongly believe that history has to be passed on and also detailed for generations to come. If they had not held down those histories, we wouldn't know what happened then, even if we were left in doubt, it's still better not knowing anything at all.
I believe there are also a lot of incidents that happened recently in my country that history will never forget. And it will continue to be passed to generations to come. Just that it will be kinda difficult to believe or not, just like we are experiencing it right now.
This is my response to the HIVE LEARNERS weekly prompt in the hive-learners community for the Week 187 Edition 2, and the topic to be discussed is TALES OF HISTORY.
