Saturday, September 3, 2016

This chained, century-old tree in Pakistan is a perfect metaphor for colonialism

A banyan tree in #Pakistan has been under arrest for the past 100 years: https://t.co/QVbRukIHQp pic.twitter.com/Nui9bS9t1z — ScoopWhoop (@ScoopWhoop) September 2, 2016 A photograph printed this week in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper offered up a reminder of an obscure episode in the history of the British Raj. It shows a banyan tree in the country's Khyber agency, a […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/09/03/this-chained-century-old-tree-in-pakistan-is-a-perfect-metaphor-for-colonialism/

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