If you read it carefully, you would know why history repeats itself. The thing is, no incident is an isolated occurrence, but rather a culmination of things that precede it and a precursor to things that follow. For screenwriter, filmmaker and scholar Vaibhav Abnave, this concept is clearer than it is to us. Coming from a philosophical domain, Abnave describes a historical event as a concept and refers to it as an unprecedented rupture with the existing status quo. In that sense, everything from the Quit India Movement to the French Revolution to the #MeToo campaign qualifies as a concept.

Vaibhav Abnave