It is indeed very interesting when an Indian born in post-partition India says that, the two nation theory was flawed or was wrong. Those born and bred in post-partition environment have lived in two different countries as two different sets of peoples belonging to two different nations for over 60 years now. So why would the Indians still call it a flawed concept. Why is it that the Indians do not accept the fact that Pakistan is a reality and wont go away because of what they feel was a flawed concept.
I am a Pakistani. I dont know what India looks like. I dont know many Indian people. I see them as foreign nationals belonging to a neighbouring country. Yet even after over 60 years of our creation I am being bombarded with the mantra that somehow, Indians and Pakistanis are the same people.
Why cant we accept the fact that we are two different people, from two different countries which happen to exist in the same geographical region. I dont even want to be called a South Asian, because I am only a Pakistani.
Most of such ideas emanate from India. By still challenging the two nation theory, they dont accept the creation of Pakistan and subsequent emergence of Bangladesh. For those who cite creation of Bangladesh as a negation of two nation theory fail to understand that, Bangladesh did not rejoin Indian union and has probably reframed the two nation theory into three nation theory.
I immensely dislike when Indians here come and challenge the existence of my country, telling me that we are the same people, telling me that our cultures are the same, our languages are the same. How can one sink it in their upper story that I am neither like any Indian, that my language is different, that my culture is different and that I am a Pakistani. My father wouldve lived in pre-partition India. As for me and many more like me, I am a Pakistani and very proud that I am.