Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is a satirical mirror that critiques colonialism.

By the time Swift was writing this prose Ireland was so completely dominated by England, the colonising  giant whose brutal and oppressive legacy continues to echo across regions, including our own in the Subcontinent, where we still bear the scars of imperial subjugation. The difference is that we did not had any literary figures like Jonathan Swift who could propose a more ‘modest’ solution to our predicament ( which might have been even harsher than his).The Irish people were at the brink of extinction, according to estimates, more than half of Ireland’s population was fleeing to other countries for the sake of survival. Swift’s use of satire to describe the situation in Ireland manifests the inhumane side of colonisation being practiced in their country, where the people were left with no choice but to sell their infants to the colonisers as food. The helplessness of the Irish was so severe that they had nothing left but their children because of the massive economic disparitie...