Thus Jaswant Singh is no more a part of the Bhartiya Janta Party. His efforts to play a historian went largely unappreciated amongst his colleagues. The discussion of the historic facts, interpreting them and measuring the impact that partition had on India was termed as “a great sacrilege”. Another book has been banned in the democracy that bans the largest number of books, any possible debate on the faults of 40’s and earlier that lead to the independence with calamitous partition is again suppressed.
The book is about Jinnah, India of 1947, our unfathomable leaders, and the monumental errors of the past, yet paradoxically the argument is about the Indian Hindu activists, India’s need of a strong opposition, and about an apparently decaying organization. Speculations over the future of the opposition party that ruled the nation 6 years back are rife, a debate on how the obituary of the Hindu right party would look is on, reasoning that the group that has already seen at least three political avatars since independence is in for yet another major alteration or adaptation on this occasion, are being sold.
The silence over vivisection of the nation on the part of the political parties is conformist our leftist remained disinterested with the whole process than and probably are so even now, the central Congress does not have its slate clean on the issue and debating partition may lead to opening Pandora’s box. The rightist know if they do not properly indict Jinnah, part of responsibility may well be shared with their mother organization the Hindu Mahasabha, thus such a reaction to a book that indicates Jinnah was not a hopeless scoundrel but the Congress was also somewhat liable. To find that an exponent of the RSS is the one who bans the book in his state because denigration of Sardar Patel is an ideological challenge to the nation is amusing as incidentally Sardar was the person who ordered the first of the three bans on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The crisis that India over the years has faced is that it has refused to mature as a democracy, the unwillingness to debate whether our leaders could have approached the days before independence with a different insight is just one of the examples. We have rarely shown the courage to debate upon the sensitive issues. Hardly ever do we discuss social relationship of the down trodden with the upper caste, our political party even our media has not displayed courage to discuss the reservation policy in terms of a social stimulant, the recent debate over the rights of the homosexuals also saw a similar fear when it came to treading into the realms of belief and traditions, how often we reject someone un-debated, un-debated we glorify men. Habitually we are a diverse nation that hurries into consensus; with those disagreeing preferring to stay quiet, sadly the only way we dispute is by burning trains.
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The only way we debate is through burning train HARSH but true....
We forget that we are born in a country whose past is governed by reasons & proof. In our epics reasons are given for evrything that happens,Yet we try to run away from reasons which move the world. we say that it is necessary to show anger..... But without any reason,any proof,any debate it becomes as baseless as the falacy.
We dont discuss B'coz we are not ready to test our beliefs but why? where lies the problem? We prove that we are cowards something which is against our true nature. yet we are happy b'coz we think that the adamance we show is the real bravery..... Is it?????????
this is what we really need to think....
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