WHOSE STORY IS THIS ?

His story and history are not synonyms and yet the latter word seems to flow out of the former.

History is indeed a record of the activities of MAN .Women do take centre stage now and again but it it more an exception than otherwise. It is more or  less MAN all the way, It is his story indeed.

You can never recreate the factual history. This is primarily for two reasons. One, the recording of history usually takes place on a subsequent date,sometimes too far into the future and the historian uses his imagination to
reconstruct the events and gives an account of 'what might have happened'. And he records it in a way that people should like and remember him . So the details are not entirely reliable, not always true.

The second reason why actual history is never factually recreated is a motivated one. History is written by the one who wins the war or his successors. It is entirely the conqueror's story.

He writes it the way he wants - he likes to be always seen as the hero of this story and the vanquished one as the villain. Historical FACTS means nothing. The perception of these events as seen by the conqueror's historians means everything.Thus, Since history is written by the one who wins the war, it is half the truth, the other half being the unrecorded 'wrongs' perpetrated by the victor. It has always been so. Had Hitler 

won the second worldwar there would have been no records of genocide of jews or the terror of Gestapo.

History has unfotunately been a chronology of negativity - of wars and conquests, of bloodshed , of deceit and revenge . And sadly this is what is taught to the school going children and this gets implanted on their tender minds. What has a child to learn from this ?

A questiom arises here and it is this : why should a child learn history as it is taught at present. What does he/she learn from the
malovolence of Hitler when the tender mind should have learnt about the compassion of Mahatma Gandhi

and Mother Teresa. Why should the mainstream history not include the works and life of great scientists like Newton, Einstein

and Hawkins , of great mystics who preached and practiced higher values in life. And why should mainstream history be mainly political rather than that of human achievements that bring people together ? Why should history divide the nations ? Why should history breed hatred anongst people ?

Somebody has to answer
these questions . . . .!! It is long overdue.