Farida Haque
Jun 5, 2024

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We of the subcontinent can never forget the East India Company.

Thieves, murderers, convicts — lowest of the low arrived as fortune hunters to rape and pillage.
The Company was british Royal proxy for years.
‘Natives’ were untermensch.
I can’t get the image out of my mind in which a frail woman is carrying a ‘sahib’ on her shoulders, a normalized mode of transportation over steep terrain! One shameful image out of thousands.

Israel has shown us, by its appalling conduct in Gaza, who wears the description of untermensch perfectly.

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Farida Haque
Farida Haque

Written by Farida Haque

Multimedia artist, writer, poet. “I could not have painted myself happy without painting myself sad first…” faridahaque@gmail.com

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