Swadharma and Swaraj

This article was very interesting because it pointed out the idea that you cannot understand or completely comprehend a subject unless you find its root cause. It parallels itself with the situation of the babies floating down the river in baskets into another village. The village can solve the problem by taking the babies out of the river, or they can see the root cause and travel up the river to the source of the problem.

The first line of the article reads, "It is a simple truism patent even to the uneducated that the most tiny house cannot be built without a foundation strong enough to support its weight". The article is about the real cause of the Revolution. They say it started with the rumor that the soldiers put "pig grease and fat" into their cartridges. It even states, "Did anyone even inquire to see if it was true?" This idea goes with everything in life. If something even on a smaller scale, such as a fight with a friend, starts because of a rumor, then there is no content or stability to base your assumptions on. The fight is therefore meaningless if the truth is not known. Relating to a larger scale, if a war was based on the annexation of Oudh and fat inserted cartridges, but those reasons might not be true, it means that an entire Revolution was based on false assumptions.

I really enjoyed reading this article because it relates to whats happening right now with the Iraq War. People question daily the reasons to why the war started and why we are still in it. To answer this question, we must find a stable foundation to base our assumptions on. We also must look for the root cause of the War, which might even be impossible.