The Battle of Kurukshetra: Bhima killing the King of Kalinga, from 1605 illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama, the Persian translation of the Mahabharata, Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Kolkata . Being a historian must be quite scary; seeing everyday events unfolding in front of his very eyes just as it happened many times before in history. From time immemorial, the issues are the same. Even the language used is eerily the same. The end point is the same; usurping of power, wealth and dominance being the intent. Modus operandi remains the same; coming as friends or liberators with goodies beyond compare. Little do the recipients realise that it is just a bait to fish bigger catches. Your enemy is my enemy, they say. They speak of new incomprehensible lingos, the marginalised, the minority, the downtrodden, the outcasts and they embrace you despite the wart and all. The setting may be different. The tool may vary. It would happen a...
It is all Mimesis