Jaswant Singh writes in his book 'For, along with several other there is one central difficult that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh face: our 'past' has, in reality never gone into the 'past', it continues to reinvent itself, constantly becoming our 'present', thus preventing us from escaping the imprisonment of memories. To this we have to find an answer, who else can or will?'
In this so-called largest democracy in the world people are not free to speak their mind. By expelling Jaswant ... Read More
Posted By phw On Wednesday, August 19th 2009 In General, World | Tags: advani, BJP, jaswant singh, jinnah, painful period of history |
Jaswant Singh writes in his book 'For, along with several other there is one central difficult that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh face: our 'past' has, in reality never gone into the 'past', it continues to reinvent itself, constantly becoming our 'present', thus preventing us from escaping the imprisonment of memories. To this we have to find an answer, who else can or will?'
In this so-called largest democracy in the world people are not free to speak their mind. By expelling Jaswant ... Read More
Posted By phw On Sunday, August 16th 2009 In Pakistan, World | Tags: BJP, CNN-IBN, jaswant singh, jinnah's biography, karan thapar, nehru |
Amazing...
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh has called Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah "a great Indian", saying he was "demonised".
In an interview to CNN-IBN channel, the former external affairs minister blamed India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition.
"Nehru believed in a highly centralised polity. That's what he wanted India to be. Jinnah wanted a federal polity. That even Gandhi accepted. Nehru didn't. Consistently, he stood in the way of a federal India until 1947 when it became ... Read More
