Do Indians Let History Repeat Itself ? (Must Read)

By Anand Mishra ‘Abhay’

There is a proverb: ‘History repeats itself’. This proverb is well known and often quoted by, intellectuals, but nobody has ever taken any lesson from it while it’s message is quite vivid i.e. don’t repeat those follies or blunders, which you have committed in the past, in order to make your not only present but future also, bright, prosperous and safe. But we find that this proverb remains just a quotable quote not to be acted upon. That is why we suffered again and again in the past and still suffer every day.
In spite of this we appear to be adamant not to deviate from the wrong path that we had once chosen and continue to tread the same till now. Does it not indicate that we are not wise enough, and perhaps have lost our inherent power to discriminate between right and wrong, good and bad, harmful and benificial? If it is not so then why are we shy of facing the facts standing erect before our eyes.
In this background let us peep into our history. This sacred land of our’s was first attacked by the army of Darius (Ist), the mighty emperor of Iran, then known as ‘Parasya Desh’, on our ‘Balaksha Pradesh’ (Baluchistan) border (now in Pakistan). But what happened to the invader? He was given a smashing defeat and it was so complete that only seven soldiers were left to tell that very tragic defeat to their emperor, and the defeat was so crushing and awful that the so powerful Emperor of Persia like Darius (Ist.) dared not to attack again. But what a pity, we are taught that the first invader was Alexander, the so-called ‘The Great’.