Kammatipaadam might be the unsung brutal history of every big city that ever existed | Malayalam News
“Rome wasn’t built in a day.” While this popular adage is often used to emphasise that important and great things cannot be achieved in a short period, a closer look reveals a subtext that is not apparent at first glance. It’s not exactly like “slow and steady wins the race.” While it can be read as an imperialist motto, the adage also conveys that great empires are the result of strenuous effort. If we look at it superficially, we might see only the efforts of the monarchs, the ruling class, and their troops in building an empire. However, in the construction of every Rome, countless lives are displaced, marginalised and invisibilised. And needless to say, they would most likely be indigenous peoples, as we have seen throughout history. Unfortunately, the opulence of the new Romes and the clamour that accompanies them often drown out the cries and prayers of the displaced, relegating them to the far ends. Thus, even though the story of every Rome is also the story of the exiled, the history written …
