When British soldiers hanged Indian rebel Amar Shahid Bandhu Singh from a sacred fig tree in 1857, a legend was born.
I didn't know about this, thank you for sharing. As an African, I see parallels in how colonial forces weaponized both nature and culture to dominate.
Here is another story about fig trees that covers some of the impacts of colonialism, in this case in Uganda. https://planetficus.substack.com/p/the-fig-trees-that-clothed-royalty I will have another story like this soon about Kenya.
Is Trump’s America very far from doing similar things? Deportations and gulags are expensive. Dead people don’t cost any money.
I didn't know about this, thank you for sharing. As an African, I see parallels in how colonial forces weaponized both nature and culture to dominate.
Here is another story about fig trees that covers some of the impacts of colonialism, in this case in Uganda. https://planetficus.substack.com/p/the-fig-trees-that-clothed-royalty I will have another story like this soon about Kenya.
Is Trump’s America very far from doing similar things? Deportations and gulags are expensive. Dead people don’t cost any money.