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I think it may be time to re-read the entire exchange in peace and quiet, and review my conclusions. If these factors were not quoted in order to artificially buttress an impression of social coherence and a naturally occurring internal logic for a new nation, then two questions: why were they...

How nice to see you back. Thought provoking. To be honest, I am to be counted among those who avert their eyes from whatever is going on this side, the Indian side, of the border, because of banked-up revulsion. The point that there is a narrative building up within Pakistan, and that it is...

Then I have misread the whole point.

You're right, but my intention was to point to the things that he stood for, and to pierce the veil of respect and admiration that surrounded him. When one sees what this man was complicit in, what crimes the US committed, one is inclined to think that, after all, Soviet Russia was the...

A war criminal who won a Nobel Peace Prize reaches the age of 100 today. In our region, Bangladesh has been a prominent victim. It is an appropriate day to take stock of how much damage he has done around the world.

One tentative reason could be an absence of any rational thinking at leadership levels. Of course. The RSS was planning to hold its morning assemblies and lathi drills on the wrong side of the Wagah border. Quite clearly, there are some ****** who do understand. That it does not exist is...

What else? Back to the 'If you don't give me money, I will shoot myself'.

What there is to resolve is the implicit argument in your posts that there is a genetic and cultural homogeneity within the inhabitants of present-day Pakistan. That is a false proposition, based on this tenuous link of the origins of some, not all, of the languages spoken in Pakistan, and on...

Point taken. Let's leave it at that for now. We have more serious matters to resolve.

Why? He was earning in the US, they convicted him in the US, there is no list of young women who despised him and were stalked by him in India (yet), so what is wrong with his being jailed in the US, and asked to co-exist with those elements in jail who take sexual crimes very seriously? Let...

It is a never-ceasing source of wonder to me that no Pakistani, living or dead, sees the contradiction between hating the Dogras, and insisting that their methodical acquisition of culturally and linguistically diverse territories into one realm (with the exception of Gilgit-Baltistan) should be...

Yes, I got that, but it is not such a major difference, and can be understood. Changing everything I have posted is unrealistic. If you yourself understand what is being communicated, that will serve the purpose.

<sigh> It was, and it was not. What you do not know is that Suhrawardy was as strong a Bengali-first politician as might be imagined. Between him, and Dr. Sarat Bose, Netaji's brother, a prominent but Bengal-first politician, and Kiron Shankar Roy, a kinsman, they came to the conclusion that...

Every single action of the British in the run-up to partition was devoted to supporting it. You might like to read The Viceroy at Bay, written by Linlithgow's son. I can give you a wide reading list, but you have to get rid of the notion that the Muslim League was anything but a King's party...

An excellent point. Not particularly funny. Again, you are found distorting small facts in order to dress up your case. This is deplorable. As late as the 60s, Wilson was under surveillance by British intelligence. Churchill's personal obsession with India, and need to exercise authority...

This is a pessimistic but correct assessment. It can be neutralised, but this is the situation today. Please DO NOT add to the noise. The sevaks at Godhra were nowhere in no way rapist. Adding that kind of incorrect information totally distorts the essence of your point of view, enfuriates...

They weren't, not in representative numbers. The few who did win were promoted by the-then big tent party with the message that all religious persuasions should be acceptable. This did work, before caste became a consideration. You need to remember that the genie was let out of the bottle by...

That, in my opinion, is the great Indian liberal failure. From 1920 to 2014, Gandhi's very well-packaged and very persuasive presentation of a tolerant Hindu society morally committed to equitable treatment of all other shades of religious belief prevailed. The independence movement was largely...

In effect, you are not against a Uniform Civil Code, but not in a state like India. Would you have been for such a code before 2014, before the gremlins and trolls came to rule India?

A viciously unfair deal. And so? If these egalitarian measures amount to targeting Muslim faith, values, family and laws, perhaps those features deserve close and probing examination and reform by Muslims in the first place, long before there is any effort to bring about a homogenisation of...