Amitav Ghosh warns against manipulating history

Amitav Ghosh, a famous author, warns us about two dangerous ways people misuse history.

First, they use old events to justify bad things happening now, like saying 'we are attacking them because their ancestors did something bad long ago.'

This keeps societies stuck in old conflicts.

Second, they use good things happening today to excuse bad things that happened in the past, like saying 'our empire was good because it built railways.'

Ghosh says this is wrong because it ignores the suffering of people in the past and present.

His warning is very important today, as leaders and groups often use history to justify wars, discrimination, and ignoring past wrongs.