Why are you glorifying this dead people? Aren't these the people who enslaved us, looted our resources? Aren't these the graves of the people who divided us, made us fight among ourselves, and also with their enemies elsewhere in the world? Aren't these the people who plundered and stole our wealth and resources. And, aren't these the graves of the people who, in the name of giving us the independence, gave us the problems that haunt us even now?
These people deserve to be forgotten, defaced and defiled from this place. Why are we even remembering them now?
Next thing rediff probably would do is send off Sheela Bhatt to talk to descendants of Gen. Dyer (if there are any) and show pictures of his grave.
If you really want to remember 1857, do so by telling me more about Jhansi Ki Rani. I bet scores of people don't even have a clue where in India Jhansi is. And here your showing me pictures of dead Brits' graves (who should have been dead to begin with) who killed thousand of my Countrymen. Bravo! Bravo!
RE:Why this glorification?
by Pradeep Ramakrishna on May 09, 2007 11:15 AM Permalink
Gagan, You will see the tombs of the dead british because they were the rulers at that time. The same can be said about the various tombs around delhi. They are reminding us who ruled us at that time. Coming to 1857, the movement failed because of the crude differences that exists in our society, which the british used against us. If the 1857 struggle had succeeded, it is difficult to imagine how we would have been today. Probably we would have been an islamic country. I feel that to keep us together, somebody should have brought everybody under one umbrella and it was possible only for the british. As I said elsewhere, if you want to remove these tombs, you should also start thinking of removing all the other tombs in our country(for eg Taj mahal). But is this the answer for the burning problems that face us today?
Great reply Pradeep. How true. Very few understand the India we have today won't have existed had it not been for events that led to our independence in 1947. A success in 1857 would have led to chaos and maybe we would still have been a region with hundreds for rulers fighting among themselves and most of India under islamic rule. Now India has a great opportunity to be a great nation of Hindu, Muslims, Sikhs and others living together. We should appreciate what we have today and we should built on the economic achievement of last 15 years to become a peaceful and developed country as early as we can.
