CORRECTION: FREEDOM CAME IN 2014

AT last, we have someone teaching us real history. Real history is that India did not win freedom in 1947.

- T J S GEORGE

What it gained at that time was a charity gift from Britain, bheek, meaning alms, such as a housewife gives a beggar. Freedom as distinct from bheek came in 2014, thanks to the BJP and Narendra Modi.

No BJP leader has put it so neatly. So who did it now? Kangana Ranaut. Who she? A film actress. But she is not just any tuppeny actress. She knows politics and understands what is good for her and what is bad. She also has an advantage others don’t have. Which is that her understanding of politics is limited by her not understanding the relevance of characters like Gandhi and Nehru and Patel and Bose.

With selective facts at her command, Kangana R. has clear views on real history. Ahimsa, she tells us, gets you bheek, not freedom. Poor Gandhi. He had sacrificed his life for ahimsa. Generations of Indians had hailed him as Mahatma because of his ahimsa philosophy. They all lived in vain because they never had Kang anaji to advise them.

It was clear that Indians were a dumb lot. We never realised that history teachers, intellectuals and columnists were all cheating us all these years. They were filling our minds with a load of bull and we never knew it. Now we know, thanks to Kangana, our saviour.