History Is Polluted Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

History is written by the winners.
History is written by the royals.
Contributory factors are taken in.
Inconvenient factors are left out.

Epics are made to project history.
Mythologies are made to form history.
Fictious novels and films based on history
Do more damage than good to history.

Cleopatra is known as is pictured
By Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra
With her real account into oblivion.
Fictious history overrides history.

Sites in the internet are filled with news,
False, distorted, exaggerated or half cooked.
A tea stall of recent origin is shown
As the one where Narendra Modi sold tea.

Health advice without evidence spreads out.
False news are floating about personalities.
Skullduggery stands as if authentic
Facts are polluted to remain no fact.
19.11.2017