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And I think this is the best, amidst difficult choices. Cognitive dissonance. Ironically a term originated in management jargon. You have a point. On my side, I feel the need to keep the real thing in front of these totally disturbed young minds, totally destroyed by the toxic content of...

You didn't get it, did you? The experience was comic. It's weird how lacking in comprehension you are. Finally, it has to be pounded in with a ball-peen hammer.

Again, this looks very different when examined in detail. It is far from coincidence that the strongest locations for the BJP have been the Brahmin-first locations. Let us look at the places you have mentioned, with this in mind. Maharashtra gave the BJP a strong base from Nagpur and from...

I agree with this, in large part, but have been questioning this myth of Muslim appeasement. NOBODY has come up with concrete instances of what form Muslim appeasement took, other than the brilliant and totally fabricated Jan Sangh proposition that there was appeasement going on. As far as I...

I have, after my initial distaste at this, and after sharing Jinnah's horror at this injection of religion into politics, come to the conclusion that this was brilliant political strategy, that positioning himself as a religious-minded Hindu with all the weaknesses and quirks of a religious...

No, no, no. Only a Congress supporter would defend today's Congress, or would ascribe to it the ideals of the Congress that existed at the time of partition. Well, no and yes. Shyama Prasad was head of the Hindu Mahasabha, and had formed a government in Bengal as a Hindu Mahasabha leader with...

An entirely Pakistani view. So much for the scuts who still deny Operation Searchlight.

I'm not disagreeing. Just expressing amusement at the discussion having wandered in a full circle.

Heh.

Brilliant insight. I remain astonished that even we ourselved (those of us not from UP) have nowhere near this level of insight. Calcutta was tense too. We used to cut the tramlines overhead cables for the Taziya to pass, and the others would always tell the employees and the police that we...

I sincerely hope and wish things will improve. In BOTH countries.

Oh, that's been written, brilliantly well. It is The Great Partition, by Yasmin Khan. Yasmin Khan is a very well known historian from St. Peter's and then from St. Antony's College, Oxford, and has lived in Delhi. She was a lecturer at Edinburgh University, where my daughter and son-in-law...

মনে থাকে যেন। এমনি বলে দিয়ে কেটে পড়লে চলবে না !

Is that a secret any more? Presumably, even Pakistani gentlemen of British domicile know that the BJP controls only a part of the country. They are running riot in their controlled states. They are being challenged in others. Ask me more. :cheers: IF you are brave.

What's WRONG with you? Let me calm down. It's been a rough day. Oh no, no, no, no.....

I am still eligible for Bangladeshi citizenship. Believe me with every Sanghi outrage I suffer a fresh wave of temptation. The saving grace is that I live in a very civilised city, with only a handful of despised Sanghis to spoil things, but with an honorable an decent mix of people. When I...

Sadly, pure urban legend. Have you read a single word from me disputing facts? One word? I am a little annoyed at being clubbed with Sanghi lowlives out to cause trouble. That was less than polite. However, let us move on. If ever I catch you bending, you are road-kill. :enjoy: They are more...

There were no choices in any princely state, except post-facto in Junagadh and in Hyderabad. The point is that if the situation with regard to withdrawal of suzerainty was not to be honoured, then the rest of the legislative arrangement, including, specifically, the severing of portions of the...

Very simply put, they had agreed that Bengal should remain undivided, and should form a third Dominion. Jinnah, exasperated at this very late development, told them to do what they wanted. At this point of time, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, actively involved in politics, and a former member of a...