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Farrukh Dhondy | All changes not a ‘revolution’: History can’t be just swept aside
Published Apr 10, 2021, 12:05 am IST
Updated Apr 10, 2021, 12:05 am IST
Bloody Myanmar today is not a revolution, it is an imposed change of regime, best described as a fascist military coup
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Who discovered several way to be blind
Blind to truth and blind to beauty
Blind to the message of the stars above
Blind to dharma, blind to duty
And blind not to, but blindly in love.”
From Pyar Kiya, Abh Karna Kya? by Bachchoo
Let us ponder, gentle reader, on the word “revolution”: It’s certainly what the planets do around the sun. But historically, socially, it has been applied to changes in who controls societies a change, but not in the gentle way that Joe Biden and Kamala Devi Harris took over from Donald Trump. A revolution, historically, involves blood.