Wars happen once in decades; Narratives are churned out everyday
True history! Is there anything even close to the twosome that, to many keen observers, comes across more like an oxymoron than anything else? Can history ever be true? Historical events, in isolation, will always be simple facts but then comes in the power of the pen (and now, the keyboards). Recorders of such events have been influencing the chronicling of such events since time immemorial. Logging of historical events, therefore, has always been prone to manipulations and manoeuvrings. Reasons varying from sheer loyalty to the benefactors to the fear of falling in favour to apprehensions and biases of various kinds have ensured that the writers and recorders of history are seldom free of influences. Most of the original recorders of the historical events, thus, happen to be influencers of some sort. While the human limitations are well-understood and are taken in the spirit of the game, what upsets many observers is another category of influencers who try and subvert or suppor...