I am deliberately choosing to call them as two brothers and not two nations as there is an emotional connect between them. Brothers, who are drifting away from each other with each passing day. Both grappling with problems which are majorly common. Yet, one is silently taking small steps towards glory and the other is mostly sulking in ignominy or sometimes seething in anger or frustration over the whole world going gaga over it's own brother's achievements.
By now, you must have caught my imagination that I am trying to talk about India and Pakistan. Another reason that I have preferred to chose word brothers as I really see them as two individuals coming from the same family, with same sort of culinary traditions, rituals, education system (inherited) and same sort of humor as well. Believe me or not, what makes Indians and Pakistanis, laugh, dance and jump with joy are the same things.
Though, I don't need to list examples here but for people who are still not nodding their heads in agreement, here are a few examples. How many of us Indians have laughed their guts out on Pakistani Comedy of "Bakra- Kishto Me"? Also, you must have heard of Pakistanis fond of Indian Movies. Also, you must have read about people going to Lahore for watching cricket matches and their narration of the city as a mirror image of Amritsar. This list is endless, however is not enough to douse the ever rising flame of anger between these two brothers.
This oxymoron-ic existence of relationships confuses me and confuses most of the intellect. You must not have noticed that I have subtly booked my birth amongst the elite intellects. My sole aim remains here to present the present state of the relations that these two ever-feuding nations share, dwell a bit on the past and excavate the seeds which previous generations and events had sown which resulted into a partition.
To understand the complete picture, one would have to either wipe out all the rosy and gory picture which the media (print and electronic) has painted in front of you or build your own perspective by listening to story from both the sides.On one day, they give us a hope by running "Aman ki Aasha" and on another day they flash breaking news of beheading of Indian soldiers. What should we believe and what we shouldn't?
There are rational speakers on both the sides, who are shouting truth on the top of their voice but they are happily ignored by media. Obviously, there are more important news to cover such as Digvijay singh is genuinely worried about NaMo's marital life. What a soft hearted man, our Diggy-Raja is? Here also, I prefer to call Diggy-Raja and not the other degraded names which social media so vehemently uses as there should be some conduct shown even while discussing the issues or persons which irritates us.
We prefer to call Gandhi Family by names and there might be a thousand valid reasons and incidents which may justify this. But, what has been a difference between India and Pakistan is the approach taken in the first few years by the leadership of these two nations.
Unfortunately Pakistan lost Mr. Jinnah and Liyaqat Ali and was be-reft of any father figure since then and a similar event happened in India where Mahatama Gandhi was assasinated by Nathuram Ghodse. Again, I am not labelling the assasins as bad people or extremist and the assasinated as saints as that is not my motive, I am just trying to assess the impact that these events had on the future of these two nations.Any Indian who may prefer to call Gandhi as responsible for Partition would not deny that he was the leader of masses, people believed in him and followed him blindly and when such a patriarch of an entire generation is lost, people and even nations lose confidence which fortunately India didn't lose and was guided amicably by Mr. Nehru.
This is an interesting topic of every house party that people hold with close friends and relatives. They discuss in detail what Nehru could have done better and what he shouldn't have done. There is a hate sentiment while we Indians discuss about the lavish spendings that he was accustomed to. Agan, I am not interested too much in mud slinging exercise here and discuss the monthly balancesheets of Nehru Gandhi family.
What Nehru did got right was the start of Non-Aligned movement and focus on science and technology. So, India started on its long, boring and tiring yet much-needed journey of being a socialist secular nation. On the other hand, Pakistan started off on its journey of being a National-Security State i.e. their prime concern would be security and not the betterment of their society.
In next parts, I would like to talk about what India did differently in terms of land reforms, sharing of power and building a better educational system than Pakistan. Somewhere, I would also dig a little on the seeds of partition, who sowed it and for what? Why muslims couldn't embrace English education as Hindus did it back then.
At some point, it would be mandatory to talk about how India was weaved into one thread by Iron man Shri Sardar Patel and what formula was used for partition and what were the exception to this formula. These posts would be solely aimed at improving my own understanding of history, as we were never taught all these things in out text-books, and also to spread awareness amongst people about their own past.
One thing, I would like to make very clear is, I have no intention of hurting sentiments of anybody out there.
By now, you must have caught my imagination that I am trying to talk about India and Pakistan. Another reason that I have preferred to chose word brothers as I really see them as two individuals coming from the same family, with same sort of culinary traditions, rituals, education system (inherited) and same sort of humor as well. Believe me or not, what makes Indians and Pakistanis, laugh, dance and jump with joy are the same things.
Though, I don't need to list examples here but for people who are still not nodding their heads in agreement, here are a few examples. How many of us Indians have laughed their guts out on Pakistani Comedy of "Bakra- Kishto Me"? Also, you must have heard of Pakistanis fond of Indian Movies. Also, you must have read about people going to Lahore for watching cricket matches and their narration of the city as a mirror image of Amritsar. This list is endless, however is not enough to douse the ever rising flame of anger between these two brothers.
This oxymoron-ic existence of relationships confuses me and confuses most of the intellect. You must not have noticed that I have subtly booked my birth amongst the elite intellects. My sole aim remains here to present the present state of the relations that these two ever-feuding nations share, dwell a bit on the past and excavate the seeds which previous generations and events had sown which resulted into a partition.
To understand the complete picture, one would have to either wipe out all the rosy and gory picture which the media (print and electronic) has painted in front of you or build your own perspective by listening to story from both the sides.On one day, they give us a hope by running "Aman ki Aasha" and on another day they flash breaking news of beheading of Indian soldiers. What should we believe and what we shouldn't?
There are rational speakers on both the sides, who are shouting truth on the top of their voice but they are happily ignored by media. Obviously, there are more important news to cover such as Digvijay singh is genuinely worried about NaMo's marital life. What a soft hearted man, our Diggy-Raja is? Here also, I prefer to call Diggy-Raja and not the other degraded names which social media so vehemently uses as there should be some conduct shown even while discussing the issues or persons which irritates us.
We prefer to call Gandhi Family by names and there might be a thousand valid reasons and incidents which may justify this. But, what has been a difference between India and Pakistan is the approach taken in the first few years by the leadership of these two nations.
Unfortunately Pakistan lost Mr. Jinnah and Liyaqat Ali and was be-reft of any father figure since then and a similar event happened in India where Mahatama Gandhi was assasinated by Nathuram Ghodse. Again, I am not labelling the assasins as bad people or extremist and the assasinated as saints as that is not my motive, I am just trying to assess the impact that these events had on the future of these two nations.Any Indian who may prefer to call Gandhi as responsible for Partition would not deny that he was the leader of masses, people believed in him and followed him blindly and when such a patriarch of an entire generation is lost, people and even nations lose confidence which fortunately India didn't lose and was guided amicably by Mr. Nehru.
This is an interesting topic of every house party that people hold with close friends and relatives. They discuss in detail what Nehru could have done better and what he shouldn't have done. There is a hate sentiment while we Indians discuss about the lavish spendings that he was accustomed to. Agan, I am not interested too much in mud slinging exercise here and discuss the monthly balancesheets of Nehru Gandhi family.
What Nehru did got right was the start of Non-Aligned movement and focus on science and technology. So, India started on its long, boring and tiring yet much-needed journey of being a socialist secular nation. On the other hand, Pakistan started off on its journey of being a National-Security State i.e. their prime concern would be security and not the betterment of their society.
In next parts, I would like to talk about what India did differently in terms of land reforms, sharing of power and building a better educational system than Pakistan. Somewhere, I would also dig a little on the seeds of partition, who sowed it and for what? Why muslims couldn't embrace English education as Hindus did it back then.
At some point, it would be mandatory to talk about how India was weaved into one thread by Iron man Shri Sardar Patel and what formula was used for partition and what were the exception to this formula. These posts would be solely aimed at improving my own understanding of history, as we were never taught all these things in out text-books, and also to spread awareness amongst people about their own past.
One thing, I would like to make very clear is, I have no intention of hurting sentiments of anybody out there.
