Son: So I have to read about Mohd. Ghori. Will you help me?
Mom (recollecting whatever little history i remember): Haan he was called The Butcher of Tarain na...
Son (shocked): NOOOO! That's not what they taught us at all!
Mom(now shocked): Arre! How can they completely erase the massacre of thousands of Indians from our own history books? That man slaughtered people for the sake of slaughtering them. He and his army kept killing even after they had won.
And today, I checked online. Apparently, other than my memory, nobody else remembers "The Butcher of Tarain."
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