Cholas may not be in NCERT textbooks but love for Tamil, faith in Shiva will keep them alive
12 June, 2023
My one quarrel with Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan is that it emphasises on the war-mongering elements of Chola history not on their aesthetic, administrative achievements.
The Irish political theorist Benedict Anderson postulated that nations are “imagined” communities. It is important to note that even the kingdoms and empires of antiquity are “imagined” entities. Arguably, Scotland exists because Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Burns imagined Scotland for their readers. Rajasthan can pretty much be seen as the creation of Colonel James Tod.