What if.?... Nah! Let sleeping dogs lie

Just the other day, one of followers (on the blog, of course - I am not a leader of some sort of ala-Waco kind of a cult!) sent me a link to a site where some people of Tamil ethnicity in Kuala Lumpur, were creating a scene trying to give a memorandum to the organizers at the launch of Little India in Brickfields. These people claim that Indians in Malaysia were ill-treated and the Indian Prime Minister should intervene. In the same vein, they were unhappy with the way their fellow Tamilians from Jaffna peninsular (in Sri Lanka) were treated by the Singalese government and that the Indian government did not intervene to right the wrong. On top of all these, they felt that Mr Manmohan Singh was not the most appropriate person to officiate the function and that 'Little India' should have been called 'Tamil City' instead this area was mainly developed by Tamils who migrated to Malaya.
At the end of the day, the memorandum was just a uneventful storm in the tea cup. Obladi oblada, life went on... Little India was officially open by Mr Manmohan, Little India remained Little India, Najib contracted chicken pox and recovered and the trouble makers started looking at other things to create an issue. It has been like that throughout the history of mankind.

Righting the wrong? 

The most iconic image of MGR is from the film Enga Veetu Pillai, when MGR’s character threatens to whip 

the Landlord with the very whip that the Landlord used to discipline his workers and servants.

The link also had a write-up on how the sea-faring Tamilians helped to develop the area from Kra isthmus all the way to the present Phillipines on the north and Indonesia in the south. Basically, the article was whining about the long lost glory of the race and whining about the present state of affairs.
What if everyone in the world starting in that manner and try to alter the course of present day events based on historic events. Of course, history (His Story) is written by victors but then there will eternal chaos on Mother Earth if everyone wants to change the natural course of events os 'History'and eventually there will be no civilization for us to write about. Like the old Red Indian saying goes; when you plan to kill someone for revenge, make sure you dig two graves!
Imagine a world in the following examples if everybody finds a justification to reclaim their stake in something:

• (This is already happening)! The legal wrangle and occasional riots on sovereign right to build their place of worship in a site in Ayodhya, India. The Hindus claim the area as birth place of Lord Rama whilst the Moslems refuse to budge from the Babri mosque which was allegedly built by the invading Moghul warriors in 1528.
• What if suddenly someone from Macedonia one day says they have to continue the struggle and unaccomplished wish of one of the sons of their soil named many years previously, named Alexander, managed to convince the rest of the Macedonians to declare war on India to continue Alexander's conquest of the world?
• What if the remnants of the Austria-Hungarian empire which hailed at the turn of the 20th century is given a new lease of life by a renegade supremacy group? Scary, right?
• And like a scene from the blockbuster 'Mummy Returns', if someone or something  either in delusion or  in mystic, decides to reclaim the bygone glory era of the Sphinx? The result would definitely be catastrophic to the human race. 
• And like that the Romans, Greeks, Persians and Native Americans have a lot of things to proud about that they have contributed to mankind. So let it be.

  

  Roman soldier

  
  

The Communists ruled Budapest in 1919,
the destruction of all Hungarian historical
monuments statues and national symbols.
The Heroes Square of Budapest was    
completely demolished and rebuilt into a
Marx-Engels memorial by the communists.

May be we should all emulate the Chinese. No matter where they live, that is their kingdom. They would work hard as if there was no tomorrow (Kal Ho Nah Ho) and be able to play a crucial if if not the 'unseen hand' role in the progress of the nation without much fuss. Evidence of this apparent in countries like Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. In spite of not being the majority race, the economy of these countries are controlled by their activities. Probably, like what this show below shows, in 2030 history would have made a complete circle, Civilization of mankind as we know it that probably started around the Yellow River circa BC 3500 will be at the helm of the Chinese again!
The take home message is that everything in this world will find its steady state. Glorious emperors and empires have come and gone. All victory and glory will one day fall into disarray. The sun will eventually set on all glory days. We should cherish them and reminisce them in our memory and enjoy our laurels in the twilight years. Bearing in mind that history has the bad habit of repeating itself, we should safe-guard ourselves against incidences like how Shah Jahan, the mighty builder of Taj Mahal, was imprisoned by his Aurangzeb, his slightly lunatic offspring!