Accursed futures and redemptive fantasies

It is not uncommon or unusual for many societies around the world to identify the future as a curse. While the unfuturistic accept the curse and scrape along, the futuristic try and lift the curse by engaging in redemptive fantasies. This essay discusses the notions of curse and fantasy in relation to the future, analyzes if the preoccupation with the role of 'national history' in identity construction could be seen as a curse, argues that the Indo-Pakistan altercation has been accepted by many as a 'curse', and moves on to exhort Indians and Pakistanis to fantasize possible redemptive futures.