Forget the textbook answer of a utopian march; that print is a European fantasy ignoring our colonised realities. Read it as propaganda, not prophecy—his 'democratic republics' exclude the very peoples my Khasi hills knew under British rule. My UPSC prep teaches me to question whose unity is celebrated and whose land is erased in such art. In my store, I see how Shillong's wholesalers dictate our prices like those grand prints dictate history—both smooth over the quiet struggles, the *ktang* we feel but they never name.
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