The moment which just went pass by is history. To me history is an unending process which follows its own pace and time frame. It depends on the time and space where we exist or the time and space when we did not exist. I think its in a way subjective that how you look into facts. The memory of the images of history which I have in my database is completely different from a point of view of a historian.
' The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish on the fishmonger's slab.The historian collects them, takes them home and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him'.
So we know the fact, acquire a kind of knowledge from it and then interpret in our own way. So the facts are being looked at differently by each one of us with different perspective. And with all the twists and turns it is made up of interwoven words by the historians, its nothing but the language, text, printed pages, stories that have already been told.
What is it which distinguishes the facts of history from other facts about the past?
The facts with great significance and its' contribution to the society is considered to be the facts of history and there are other facts from the past though of great importance are not considered to be history because they are controversial, against the system of the so called government.
For example, the Nandigram issue which took place in the year 2007 in West Bengal. West Bengal government decided that the Salim group of Indonesia would set up a chemical hub under the SEZ policy at Nandigram.
The villagers lost their lands, homes, massive roads to the villages were cut off. People of the village got beaten up, girls got brutally raped and murdered by the ruling party's cadres. So this type of issue would not stay as history after 100 years. These are the suffering of the people which would be erased from the society.
meghma
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