Asim Aquil said:
Salim, the demand to reabsorb Bangladesh is not a Bangali demand, its part of the Hindutva Akhand Bharat doctrine.
You as Bangalis might not like it due to the economic situation, but people who need their egos satisfied by recapturing land that was taken away would want it done anyway.
If you see the speeches BJP gives, its all about what the Muslims took away from us and we now have to take away from them.
It must be understood that Bengalis of West Bengal are a part of India and they obviously do not think independent of the thinking of other Indians.
It may also interest you that Advani, one of the leading members of the BJP, praised Jinnah, who happens to be the Father and Creator of Pakistan. Further, the Indian electorate rejected the BJP in the national election. This is a clear indication that non secular politics won't gel with the Indian public, on whose votes, the govts are made.
Therefore, no matter how disappointing it may be for you, India rejects non secular politics.
The fact that Advani praised Jinnah and all the Rath yatras are proving damp squibs indicates that the BJP has realised which side of the bread is buttered.
This Akhand Bharat pizzazz must be a talking point with the chatterati of Pakistan's drawing rooms and gullies, but all this does not even turn a hair in India since it is bunkum and unmitigated hogwash. It is as great an idea as the Caliphate resurfacing and as ridiculous a concept in terms of the modern societal order of nation states and nationalism and sub nationalism.
You very conveniently forget the "news report" also mentioned another leading light of the BJP Jaswant Singh who has rejected the idea of "hot pursuits", which some combat terminology illiterate conveniently terms for sensational value (including the newspaper) as "attacking" Pakistan or Bangladesh.
What makes you feel that the Moslems have taken away a part of India? No one has taken anything from anyone. A part of the Indian population decided to form a separate country and the British granted them that. It is a reality and the clock cannot be turned back. That too, i.e. the clock of time, is a reality.
It is just that there are some people, like you, also in India, who tend to let their fantasies and fears take charge of their rational mind. Fortuantely, in India they are so insignificant that their raves and ranks hardly turns a ripple. I would like to believe the same is the case in Pakistan; but if I take you, as you take the raves and rants of insignificant political animals of India, as the Vox Populi, Vox Dei of Pakistan, then it sure would alarm!
We, in India, are more concerned with improving our lives than wanting to inherit poverty and squalor to pull us back a few centuries, when in fact, we are actually in the process of emerging from the same!
You possibly wallow in the idea of cohabiting with poverty and squalor and its possibly gives you a machocist orgasm, but unfortunately, we in India, will ask you to forgive us if we do not contribute to your strain of irrational pleasure.
I hope you had a great Independence Day.
