{"product_id":"1mbt2o46dcj8","title":"Kritadas by Shripantha [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMe? Who am I?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere was I born? In which village, by which quiet riverbank, did my home stand? \u003cstrong\u003eI do not know.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore me stretches an endless field of sugarcane. The lush green tea gardens rise to my chest. \u003cstrong\u003eThe city that prides itself on civilization and never sleeps—its roads, I built.\u003c\/strong\u003e Look closely, \u003cstrong\u003eI am the one who has served you unconditionally for centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet your friend shot me dead. Your brother \u003cstrong\u003edragged me across the world in chains.\u003c\/strong\u003e Your hired men \u003cstrong\u003ebranded my flesh with a searing iron, marking me with a number.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou—some husbands, some wives, some fathers, some mothers—\u003cstrong\u003epitted me against wild bulls for sport,\u003c\/strong\u003e laughing as I struggled. \u003cstrong\u003eWith a single strike, you severed my head.\u003c\/strong\u003e You \u003cstrong\u003eburned me in fire. You drowned me in water, shackled hand and foot, without hesitation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho am I? I do not know.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is my home? I do not know.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut \u003cstrong\u003eI know who you are.\u003c\/strong\u003e I know where you live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou are \u003cstrong\u003ecivilization.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Europe to America, from Asia to the farthest corners of the world, \u003cstrong\u003eyour empire spreads.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003cstrong\u003eancient Greece and Rome\u003c\/strong\u003e to modern America, \u003cstrong\u003eyou have conquered time and space.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou are \u003cstrong\u003eblind arrogance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou created me. \u003cstrong\u003eIn the darkest, most shameful chapter of your history, you forged me—as your contradiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou named me \u003cstrong\u003eslave.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in the end, \u003cstrong\u003eyour darkness could not erase me.\u003c\/strong\u003e I did not forget—\u003cstrong\u003eslave is not my true identity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI am human.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI, and the thousands like me—we are human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFree, self-determined, rebellious human beings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime and again, we have proved it through \u003cstrong\u003erevolt.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd you, too, have carved those rebellions into your history.\u003cbr\u003eFor no matter how \u003cstrong\u003ereluctant, no matter how cruel, civilization has no choice but to become human in the end.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the more human you become, the more \u003cstrong\u003eI will haunt you with my memory, my suffering, my defiance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you think I am gone, if you wish to forget, if you try to deny me—\u003cstrong\u003ethere is no escape.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book \u003cstrong\u003eholds you accountable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt preserves \u003cstrong\u003eyou, me, our pain, and our tears.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is filled with \u003cstrong\u003efacts, logic, and relentless truth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead it, \u003cstrong\u003eO Civilization, and be ashamed once more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ananda Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329243394298,"sku":"1MBT2O46DCJ8","price":466.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/1MBT2O46DCJ8_1.jpg?v=1738920759","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/1mbt2o46dcj8","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}