What are we doing to preserve our history

The inspiration of this post comes from an article which I read on the internet about the purification of Ganga Project taken up by Indian government. But are we seeing the purified Ganga ? I am sure many would second me on saying “NO”. Don’t we need to do something about preservation of such rivers which hold highest importance in history and in our lives. Another great example which we can all recall is preservation of the great Taj. Have we ever thought “what are we doing”.
In our modern day life, we give more importance to economic development rather than history. But what we all have forgetten is our present is tomorrow’s history. As much as we neglect our history, that much will our future generation neglect our present which is their history. I am sure many of my fellow country men and women wouldn’t have even told their children about who Mahatma Gandhi is. Do you all think we are doing the right thing.. I definitely don’t think we are. Many temples and historically important places are getting destroyed. Our Archeological department is doing nothing to preserve them. Imagine in 50 years from today, all those would be part of the dust. We are so much busy with other things that we find very less time for our history. I definitely wouldn’t say we should live in history without going towards the path of progress. But progress doesn’t mean changing our own self. We do have an identity that needs to be preserved. Being universal is not bad.
I have been living in the United States for seven years now. I have been astonished to see how these people preserve their history. Its not only about USA, countries like Canada, UK, Germany, Australia etc are doing the same thing. Definitely these countries do not have as much years of history compared to our thousands of years of history. So do we mean to say they are living in history.
I definitely think our future generations need to know about the great history which I know today. I definitely hope that doesn’t fade from the face of earth with time.