Hindustan Times
I’ve been travelling in Pakistan for almost a week; having arrived here on the day Jaswant Singh was expelled from the BJP for what the Sangh Parivar considered an act of political blasphemy! His prognosis of Muhammad Ali Jinnah might have caused a stir in India. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 24, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Ayesha Jalal, Independence, india, Jaswant Singh, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Nawaz Sharif, Partition, Sadat Hasan Manto, the Sangh Parivar
After Lal Krishna Advani, we now have Jaswant Singh eulogizing Jinnah. I had agreed with Advani that the man who founded Pakistan was by choice a secularist whose politics turned communal. But I have problems coming to terms with Jaswant’s perspective released in the form of a full-fledged book. I wonder whether his project is aimed at denigrating Pandit Nehru or giving Jinnah his rightful place as a secularist who (for whatever reasons) went haywire to recognize — after the Partition — the limitations of the divisive philosophy that created Pakistan. Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 17, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Hindu-Muslim unity, Jaswant Singh, Jaswant Singh's new book, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Jinnah, Lucknow Pact
