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  • Shanmugha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    And it goes much much further. The name of the land is Bharat, but I’ve spent some 25-ish years not knowing that. It always brings me to tears when I think of how this land and people were and what wondrous place it could have been when I was born. But alas, there is so much to undo and overcome now to get even a glimpse of that

      • Shanmugha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Yes, but “something still stands” does not equal “nothing has fallen”. Not every Indian has access to a toilet that is flushed with water, there are houses built upon heaps of trash, kids who genuinely think taking some government job and then living off bribes is a good way to live, what has become of cast system and how care for women has been twisted into oppression - someone a little more knowledgeable can spend whole days just enumerating problems. And all this in a land where they had enlightened kings (in spiritual sense, as in “knowing how everything works”) and also leathers and societies capable of lifetimes of dedicated work