At the launch of Sumant Batra’s Kafila: A Jhangi Family’s Partition Memoir, harmony was a recurring theme. ‘Best way to survive was to embrace a pan-Indian identity,’ said an audience member.
Sharing an X post, the prime minister called the Partition a 'tragic chapter' of Indian history, and urged the public to strengthen the harmony in the country.
Ambedkar regarded both Gandhi and Jinnah as suffering from ‘colossal egotism’, who made Indian politics a matter of their ‘personal quarrel’ and brought it to a standstill.
Haryana’s Jat heartland—Rohtak, Jhajjar, Hisar, and Bahadurgarh—shares a unique bond with Pakistan’s Punjab, where Muslim Jats settled after Partition.
Iqbal, who wrote ‘Saare Jahan Se Achha’ in 1904, was advocating for a Muslim-majority state by 1930s. This ideological pivot branded him the intellectual architect of Partition.
If you are a trained ‘intellectual’ from JNU, Jadavpur, as well as TISS, then Latin America, its intellectual contributions, and its centrality in the worldwide fight against ugly capitalism are not to be downplayed.
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Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
Sometimes I wonder whether these so called intellectuals so deep in their subject that they forget the other dimensions or aspects of any issue or for that matter a rememberance like partitions horrors. They forget that this is not a utopian world but a world where things can happen again as the author quoted. A person who has suffered can not be given a moral lecture of ethics when they recall their miseries. The person here a country will not need a moral lecture when it is mourning. Since these things can happen again we need to remind our population and recognise the events precursor to the horrors. The history needs to be taught so that people are able to recognise the events and stop it before it spreads. They need to remember that it started on the day when the Muslim league and its backers and followers went on rampage on the direct action day. They need to remember that voices like the Muslim league are raising again and the people need to recognise it and they need to nip it in the bud so that they don’t have to see the horrors that our people had to see during partition of 1947. There is no ethics in suffering so they author can take their ethical lecture somewhere else
No wonder Mr. Rakesh Batabyal teaches at JNU.
He. and others of his ilk, has never voiced concerns about the violence unleashed on Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh ever since Md. Yunus assumed power after Sheikh Hasina’s exit. The gangrapes and abductions and forced conversions of Hindu women, murders of Hindu men and destruction of Hindu owned property does not bother them at all.
But a Bengali Hindu’s remembrance of the Partition horrors upsets them.
Very very thought provoking writeup. Reminds me of the time when the public intellectuals were the true keeper of our public conscience and were one of the great pillars of our civic society.
( Unlike the present R.W.A)
Sometimes I wonder whether these so called intellectuals so deep in their subject that they forget the other dimensions or aspects of any issue or for that matter a rememberance like partitions horrors. They forget that this is not a utopian world but a world where things can happen again as the author quoted. A person who has suffered can not be given a moral lecture of ethics when they recall their miseries. The person here a country will not need a moral lecture when it is mourning. Since these things can happen again we need to remind our population and recognise the events precursor to the horrors. The history needs to be taught so that people are able to recognise the events and stop it before it spreads. They need to remember that it started on the day when the Muslim league and its backers and followers went on rampage on the direct action day. They need to remember that voices like the Muslim league are raising again and the people need to recognise it and they need to nip it in the bud so that they don’t have to see the horrors that our people had to see during partition of 1947. There is no ethics in suffering so they author can take their ethical lecture somewhere else
No wonder Mr. Rakesh Batabyal teaches at JNU.
He. and others of his ilk, has never voiced concerns about the violence unleashed on Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh ever since Md. Yunus assumed power after Sheikh Hasina’s exit. The gangrapes and abductions and forced conversions of Hindu women, murders of Hindu men and destruction of Hindu owned property does not bother them at all.
But a Bengali Hindu’s remembrance of the Partition horrors upsets them.
Very very thought provoking writeup. Reminds me of the time when the public intellectuals were the true keeper of our public conscience and were one of the great pillars of our civic society.
( Unlike the present R.W.A)
if the victim was Muslim it was remember to shame Hindus . now don’t cry.