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There is something you need to understand at the very beginning before you begin to read any of my works. If your slate is full you won't have any place to write on it until you clean it up well. Similarly, your mind, your thoughts, your emotions - almost your whole being - is covered with a blanket. This blanket is made of primarily three components - your religion, your education system and media around you. Using (or abusing) the Media (the immensely powerful tool that it is) you are constantly being bombarded with what you should know. These invisible shackles are too demanding to let you loose. You think that you are free to form your independent opinion - almost about anything - but the truth happens to be otherwise. You are also constantly reminded that you are making an informed choice but the reality is opposite. You never realize that you are always being fed with selective information. Your religious guides tell you what they want you to know. Much the same is the case with your educators and your media. Your psyche formation - right from your childhood through adolescence to the adulthood - takes place under their guidance. And, my objective is to break that cordon of cultivated misinformation, and the resultant ignorance.

When an Untruth is repeated thousand times it begins to sound like truth. When it is repeated hundreds of thousands of time it becomes The Truth, and the real truth becomes the Untruth. Your school textbooks are the best tool to achieve this fete. From the very childhood your brains are washed thoroughly leading you to a make believe world of which you have no direct experience because it relates to that Past where “you” were not Present! Your direct experiences of today (if any) are projected as the direct outcome of that remote past of which you have no true experience, except whatever you may have been told via your textbooks, your religious guides, and media stories. Guides of organized religions have their own agenda that itself guides their thought and action, and based on that they guide the thoughts and actions of their followers. Contents of educational textbooks and media coverage get widely influenced by the images that their religious guides have helped them form over generations. If there remains any question of doubt it is duly taken care of by those who control things from behind the scene, the very support system which regulates breathing of educational institutions and media outlets (that is the inflow of finances and the power centers). The repetition which has carefully shaped the untruth as truth can only be neutralized by equal amount of repetition. And therefore, you must not frown upon any repetition in my works, though they are often not verbatim repetitions. You may as well enjoy reading them. 25 October 2007

As I see it, history is collective record of past human actions. How do these actions originate? They are triggered by mind. What regulates the mind? Thoughts and emotions! How thoughts and emotions are shaped? By education! Which part of education influences human mind most? Religious education! I have demonstrated through my work Christianity in a different Light as to how religion has continuously shaped history of the ChristianWorld and how it is still shaping the current events of that part of the world. Therefore, to me history and religion are inseparable disciplines of study.

If history is the record of past events, the key to those events may at times be found in the contemporary politics. Let me explain this a bit differently. History records the actions taken by those who govern nations. The policies they adopt shape the lives of millions. Such policies become the subject matter of politics. Therefore, history (actions) cannot be separated from politics (policies). For the same reason, history cannot be fully interpreted without diving into the politics which shaped that history. Hence, you will find me digging into both from time to time. May 2007

ॐ नमो नारायणाय

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