The saying “The first draft of history” refers to the relevance of journalism. It reflects the motto of “today’s news is tomorrow’s history.” Raqs refuses to see history as static and set in stone. They regard it as a palimpsest that is permanently in flux due to overwriting, overlaying, and reinterpreting. In their work Corrections to the First Draft of History, Raqs “correct” the pages of newspapers by drawing and painting over them with black blackboard ink. The words and sentence fragments they write over the original texts in chalk are mostly taken from the “First Book of Reading,” which is a primer that was put together in 1850 by Pyari Charan Sarkar, a Calcutta educationist in order to help Bengali students learn English. The learning of English, in this instance, meant then, and continues to mean even now, a familiarization with an entirely new system of organizing reality – and a primary grasp, or claim, on techniques of becoming subjects and agents in the world.