This is a complicated post. This post is about the old colonial policy about divide and rule and how it impacted the world over centuries and continues to do so to this day. This post is about the fallout from the colonial masters, the tatters of cultures they left behind once they decided that multi-nationalism worked far better at creating and maintaining slave culture than actual colonialism. This post is also about cows smuggled inside tunnels. How are these two subject related? Read on.
Divide and conquer was a maxim a lot of Indians I knew spat out with a certain amount of indignation. It came with the realization that said Indians had only realized the British strategy far too late, after it had caused deep enough rifts between religions and classed in the subcontinent to the point that when it was given independence, three different countries had to be created. Continue reading ‘Cows in tunnels’
I was meandering through a shop a few months ago – one of those hipster places that sells things that make you feel like you’re not really buying but sharing whatever the hell it is that’s caught your eye.
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