I typed almost six paragraphs before some glitch wiped it all away. Argh!!!!

Anyways, in short, I heard about a new theory (told to me by my friend) that Indira Gandhi was definitely the mother of Sanjay Gandhi but Feroz Gandhi was not the father of him And etc etc about the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

I don't care if its true or not. I am not anyways proud of that heritage. My history knowledge is mostly based on what I have read in my social studies book and few tv programs and thats all. But the question I want to ask is, "is the need to study history important??"

Why do we need to know when half of it is doctored by vested interests?? Why do we need to know or read the history when successive governments change history based on their views? Why do children need to know such inaccurate version of history??

What purpose does it serve when we "have to learn from our history" and the history is no more!!!

Do you really care for that matter? Do you really need this knowledge of who did what (ones that do no matter) for our day-to-day struggle with job, family, money etc??

I lost the trust on history. Whats the use of studying it when censorship power lies with the powers that are. Whats the point in even knowing what is distorted??? That how distorted it is? Even for that, you need to know the truth.

I want to know the truth about Kashmir, I wanna know about the various issues that plague our country. Give me the information which is not biased and distorted.

Why do we cry about Chinese government censorship, ours is not better. So much for free speech!!

Somehow, that I am able to write this might indicate we'd have free speech!!! :D
WOW!!!