“India is merely a geographical expression,” Winston Churchill once said in exasperation. “It is no more a single country than the Equator.” The founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, also once echoed that sentiment, arguing that “India is not a real country. Instead it is thirty-two separate nations that happen to be arrayed along the…
Category: PARTITION
The Heightened Danger between Ramadan 17th & 20th : Badr is Bad News for Infidels !
I have used ‘Infidels’ in the ironic sense, for people who repose faith in other Gods besides (or other than) Allah and his Prophet. The health and well-being of infidels face serious threat during the month of Ramadan, especially during the 17th and 20th days. Now Ramzan/Ramadan might be a pious month for the Faithful,…
A Discussion on Ambedkar’s Own Introduction to ‘Pakistan or The Partition of India’
I do not understand why ‘Thoughts on Pakistan’ is now marketed as ‘Pakistan or The Partition of India’. Does it have to do with the controversy it generated in the tumultuous decade of its publication? It was first published in the early 1940s after the Muslim League Resolution had called for the creation of Pakistan,…
कुफ़्र-काफिर पर ऐतराज नहीं, झांट-झंटुए और *टुए पर है ? (निबंध)
परसों तक सब्र ही तोड़ते थे, कल कुफ़्र भी तोड़ दिया । सब्र का क्या है साहब । हम लोग काफिर हैं, बारह सौ साल से बुतशिकनों की नफरत खत्म होने का इंतज़ार कर रहे हैं । कश्मीर में आज भी हमारे लोग मारे जा रहे हैं । शर्म बस हमें आती नहीं । क्रिकेट…
NO MORE LIES – PARTITION WAS A THOROUGHLY COMMUNAL EXERCISE
Historians and journalists have been very kind towards the Indian National Congress . But history will not be as unsparing. Truth has a way of catching up and exposing everyone for what they actually were . One can hide or be hidden by apologists and sympathisers for a long time, but ultimately truth shall…
Abhinav Pancholi 