A Note On The Revolt of 1857

Though I had been blogging for the past few months, It was Amrit who really lured me into
real-blogging, though I am not into it completely.

After reading my "Once Upon a time in India", Amrit had written,
"This one was kind of disturbing. Why did they need to be so cruel?"

This has forced me to write a note on the revolt of 1857.
What we are really lacking is a neutral view of the same.
Renowned Writer Sujatha had once said, "I started writing about it once, but I got threats - Stop writing or you wont have your hands to write. I preferred to be with hands"

It is of great importance to note that there are a few good books to describe the Freedom Struggle from a neutral view point, for instance "Freedom by midnight"...

I will be happy to find one such book on the freedom struggle... Jawaharlal Nehru in "Discovery Of India", refers to this as a FEUDAL REVOLT. One more important thing to note here is that the English dont even care to call this as a "Revolt for Independence". They rather call it, as the Sepoy Mutiny.

They are correct to an extent. This was a result of no patriotism or selflessness. Everybody who took part in the revolt had some personal reason.(Please refer the link below if interested.)

Yet we still call this as out First Struggle for Independence...

If you read books by Indian Authors as well as by the Britishers, you might be get yourself on to a confused state. But the bitter truth is both are true.

Well, If you had so far thought Indians were peace-loving, holy people, I fear you would have to
change your opinions. I would not be much wrong if I were to say Indians displayed what they called BRAVERY in a cheap manner.

Though my story is pure fiction, I really think the true situation would have been much much more cruel than what I have written.

There were much more slaughtering and butchering of women and children in reality. It was a TIT FOR TAT as far as the Indians were concerned.

So is the case in my Story, You killed our leader's son... We killed yours... And now you kill us.

So remember, we have also been violent to the core at some point of time...

If you are interested in reading more about the revolt and the way the Indians and the British
tackled it, you can read this site.

Greedy Man

Note:

I have used the word “greedy” in a completely different sense here.

Has man ever been contented with his possessions?

If your answer is yes… then I would like to have a short argument. I don’t think that even a sage is really so. He wants more of philosophy into his life. One, who claims that he has surrendered himself to God, wants to praise God more and more. If we were really contented, then we would have really stopped all researches, for all such things are going on so that we may lead a better life. If we are happy with the current life, why a better life?

If no, why is it so? I fear that I might not be able to give an answer to this question even at the end of this passage. Even from the periods of Primitive man, man’s search has been endless. Starting to work with wood, he has today ended up with great technology. Today, he is marching towards yet another great field which he calls as “Artificial Intelligence”.

Is he really trying to shake the very foundation of all creations – “Man can only think”?

My answer to this question would really be, “Not exactly!!” Man always takes care that he has complete control over the thinking of whatever he creates or he intends to create. So, man always tries to play safe. If there comes one day on which he loses control over his creations, he very well knows that may be the first step towards the end of humanity. There is no problem for humanity so long as this thought is strongly rooted in man’s heart.

But, let us go back a few steps. Why is it that he never stops working? We shall be able to understand the truth after a few quick thoughts. The truth is Man would perish the moment he stops thinking and decides, “This is enough for my life” and the most interesting fact is that man realised this fact long back. That is why he constantly tries to better existing things. There is never going to be a full stop for this process.

Man has realised that humanity is going to perish one day definitely and it is going to happen by either one of these ways.

Man being greedy to create better and better things to finally lose control over them.

Man stops thinking and stays idle.

Interestingly, man does not prefer to commit "direct" suicide and die soon.

He prefers to remain greedy throughout his life.