A TOUCH OF SALT BY ANITA AGNIHOTRI (Translated from the Bengali by ARUNAVA SINHA)
There’s always been a debate about who writes history - the historians or the victors, as Winston Churchill said. While there can be no single correct answer to this, it’s also true that whoever chooses to write it definitely tends to miss the ones who were the mighty mites. One such forgotten and unrecorded history in the Indian freedom struggle is the story of Tribhuvan from the Rann of Kutch, who was an Agaria (the salt harvesters).
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