Pastoral Genocide

The British Raj rises only sirenically from the dusty annuals of civilized history. In the wrought iron tradition of progress, the Romans cut first and deepest. Non-linear in both shape and function, the British arrival was defined by the disorderly omnipresence of God. As with all things, however, there was order buried slightly beneath the burden of breathing and dying: beginnings breed circumstances which breeds departure from the core. Things ebb and flow outside the chaotic mess of pedestrian existence. A bigger – and, perhaps, more complete – picture emerges through time. In India’s case, the desire for kunyit’s earthy bitterness spectacularly devolved into 60 million Maruti 800’s angrily poisoning the atmosphere.