Biplab Bijay
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I would call partition as India's fate.
Kashmir has always been the bone of contention between the 2 countries (ur's and mine!). But frankly I dont believe talks would ever get us to any solution, infact right now there's no solution to Kashmir unless one of the countries gives up its claim on Kashmir. The issue becomes a gargantuan one when we realise that kashmir is not just about the muslims living in Kashmir but also the Buddhists, Sikhs, hindus/kashmiri Pandits etc who also stay in that region.
I dont see peace in the region anytime soon.
Biplab had you not been a friend you would 've received a crisper answer for that, but otheriwse I think that there's nothing worth replying to in your vacuous post.
taking a dig at me eh??? Lolzzzz
You know what?
Sometimes it helps to read between lines and understand what a member (in this case me) has written. As they say "its better to keep shut and be thought as a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"
@utraash where did I call Jinnah or Gandhi a secular that you felt the need to post a link for me to read?? First let me clear that only a state can be secular and NOT people.
Jinnah was a smart man, he knew that it was practically impossible to achieve a completely homogeneous state and so did the Indian leaders, ergo they(Jinnah and Nehru)had always said that they would protect the minorities. And the words in Lahore resolution "adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards” for minorities that would form a part of these “independent states” proves me right.
Our partition model was planned not to be a failure like the League of Nations Minority Treaties, that underpinned the formation of new European nation-states out of old multi-ethnic empires. It was desired that our partition be a success like internationally sanctioned, planned exchanges of populations between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, under the Treaties of Neuilly and Lausanne in 1919 and 1923.
But unfortunately things did not go as planned!
In my very personal opinion partition, should 've never happened but like Dr.Ambedkar rightly identified the problem as the existence of majorities and minorities, which he called “the crying evils of the day”, and ergo it was a reasonable solution in his view to create the create homogenous nation-states.
I am quoting Ambedkar here because it was his article which was published after the Lahore Resolution which made a significant impact(not that Lahore resolution didnt!).
Read between the lines. he he he
