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Not entirely true. The most prevalent urban legend is that the Vale was also pro-Pakistan at the outset. It was not. Of the others, Poonch, that is west Jammu, was, and formed the core of Azad Kashmir. Gilgit was always alienated, and it had nothing to do with Dogra treatment of their...

Sure. Who says 'no'? Unfortunately you have a thick skull, solid bone. Otherwise you would have understood the difference between a snapshot of the situation in 1947 and the situation today. You need a keeper. That is for the nation. You need special help, additional help. I have seldom...

For the simple reason that his philosophy is alive and well, and is a key to the bigotry of the Sangh Parivar. I never did, idiot. Learn to read. Then learn to comprehend. Because that was the difference between the League and the Congress, and the Congress was the political organisation that...

Perhaps you should stand your argument on its head. Perhaps you should consider that the Sangh Parivar has an impact where the voting population is deadened with superstition and religiosity, where industry does not have a footprint, and where the virulence hate language against Muslims is the...

Did you notice that characterising the Congress as secular was at the time of partition? Please don't post without reading and understanding what you are responding to. That is certainly not what emerges from reading Savarkar or Golwalkar. The whole concept of the Two Nation Theory put forward...

You seriously do not know? Words fail me.

I called the Sangh bigoted because in India today, the context in which we are discussing the removal of Iqbal's thoughts, they are the ones bigoted, and nobody else. You may have noticed that the reason for Iqbal's removal is that he is not relevant to modern Indian political thought. So there...

Mind your language.

Why?

She has a genuine point. However petty and shallow the decision may seem to be, we need to consider the matter from a distance and with detachment. Iqbal was relevant as a thinker who bridged the Doomsday logic and dire forebodings of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who took the...

Learn to live with it. It is unfortunately an irreducible minimum, so you might as well take your humiliation and roll with the punches. Now. Have you anything to say beyond this increasingly shrill series of whines?

Unlike the rather linear, shall we say, thinking of a kind that seems to persist in your counsels, not all measures of capacity are taken through a tape-measure in my world. If your world revolves around stables, and around producing excellent horseflesh, you may be forgiven for your quick...

Congratulations on your ability to construct a sentence. Now for the difficult part - saying something fact based and evidence based, rather than an airy-fairy, smug, self-serving statement. As silly a riposte as the rest. It seems that you want a detailed answer to that scurrilous collection...

False accusation #1. False accusation #2. False accusation #3. False accusation #4. Misplaced accusation, directed at Sanghis, as if all Pandits are Sanghis, and all Sanghis are Pandits. Congratulations on your ability to construct a sentence. Now for the difficult part - saying something...

This is a horribly unfair characterisation of the Kashmiri Pandit, and equates failure to be oppressed with an oppressive role. Please, this is a childish and click-bait kind of proposition. Surely you can do better. False accusation #1.

I contest this. It was people within the Congress who fomented soft Hindutva. It was Rajiv Gandhi who allowed the infant idol to be sneaked into the Babri Masjid by breaking open the locked mosque doors in a clandestine manner. It was Narasimha Rao who colluded to let that traitor Advani lead a...

If your proposition is that Hindus face disabilities in daily life, it is hypocrisy. There is NOTHING that a Hindu faces in daily life that is remotely in the same class. Forget about the BIMARU states. Here, in Hyderabad, my sister said that she had taken friends - visitors - through the...

Right. No, I meant the Hindu past, the Muslim past, the British past. Remember the title of this thread. @The Eagle We have not thanked you enough. Where is it brought up, in any practical way? Are we obstructed? Is our education stopped, or hampered? Do we have entire HR departments...

No, that is subterfuge. I am married to a Brahmin, my only child is married to a Brahmin, and none of us has anything but a sceptical attitude about the oppression for which Brahmins are responsible, on a continuing basis. The day a Telugu Brahmin allows his house to be taken on rent without...

**** your talk of reconciliation. The audacity of it all, after continued oppression and endogamous tyranny from 800 AD onwards, when the genetics betray how the Dalit were frozen into their narrow sliver of space in Indian society, to talk about reconciliation. How will you reconcile with...