We live at a time when fiction is treated as history to distort reality: Amarnath Ramakrishna

Mr. Ramakrishna contended that history could only be based on facts and not on literature; he said that those who attempt to fictionalise history use literature in defence, but excavations could never be fictionalised or modified

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