“Histological” examination of history
It appears from one of the news items of today's (12 April 2008) DS: Prof. Anwar Hossain of the history department of Dhaka University noted, “It is not history, rather information on the liberation war was distorted.” The professor was speaking at a book publication ceremony at Liberation War Museum in the capital. Eminent jurist Dr. Kamal Hossain also reportedly spoke on the occasion.
I believe: one, factors such as, information via inquiry (for example) provide among other things, a critical mass to history in relevant areas; and two, the quality and the quantity of that critical mass is directly or inversely (or both) proportional to the quality and the quantity of the resultant history - relative to time, space and other variables, though. At a histological level (used in medical sense), it implies, a distortion of information could be considered inter alia as a distortion of history, either in part or in full - whether or not that history exists physically at a given time or in a given form, among other things.
It will not be out of place to mention here: contaminators of information act like a virus when it comes to attacking systems of history at various levels of its development and maintenance, per se. Further, the attack has so far continued through intra, inter and other generational levels - in varying degrees, relative again to time, space and other variables.
The last word: the above presentation should be considered and examined against the backdrop of the truth that not all information is history and not all history is information.
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