Partition was a Godsend and the leaders that matter must haveagreed to it with hind sight.Idnai would not have made this much of progress if it was loaded with 3o crore more jehadi/communal or quarrelsome Muslims who are now tucked away in a god foresaken place with no hope. West pakistan ( Pakistan now) is 80 arid land with only 2 % forest cover, scarce rain and a garguanta water problem for the future. I do not under what this ex Prince from a far corner of a desert land is hankering after. Akhand Bharath! I agree Jinnah was an honorable person with impeccable credentials, and was nationalist in his initial career.Another favourable view point is Quaid -e-Azam did India a lot of good by opting for Partition. He really did get amoth eatern land and to add we could have bargained for better,by getting sialkot, etc.
What is the use of this debate going on around regarding what happened in the past? This is a never-ending worthless debate. So much money, time, space is being wasted for this. Why cant we spend all our energy to think about our future - about the right path for growth, about right policies to remove poverty, health care, etc? Lazy, directionless people brood over the past. Some people are bent on promoting some crapppy book, written only for these - what is happening now - just a retirement benefit. We are just disgustingly callous!!! Shake the party up and move on...next generation is waiting in the wings.
India is still following the pacifism of Gandhi and will never use the military to realize its foreign policy objectives. MK Gandhi once remarked "The thirteen hundred years of imperialist expansion has made the Musulman fighters as a body.They are therefore bullies and aggressives…(Hindus) have become docile to the point of cowardice. Their vice is therefore a natural excrescence of gentleness…"
