Partition of India into States & Religions

On 6th April, I came across a NEWS "What led to India's partition according to Bal Thackeray" in which Bal Thackeray attributed the country's partition to what he called "love affair" between Pandit Nehru and lady Edwina Mountbatten :

"Lord Mountbatten took advantage of this madness and the country was ditched," Thackeray said in an interview carried by the party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
When I read this, I was actually laughing of the fact that the political blaming game can reach this height. Then, actually I thought that it might be true. I mean, the posibility of something of that sort can't be ruled out completely when the fact remains that nobody can know the complete truth. After all, History is as written by the historians.

Then I went through the comments. One of them was : Partition was a good thing. What is bad was uncompleted Partition. Muhammadans promised us that after getting their Pyara Pakistan they would all go to Pakistan. They did not keep their promise. If we do not pack them off to Pakistan then they will try to break up India one more time. Their loyalty is to Islam and Mecca, not to India.

I don't know exactly what the actual reason behind the partition was, but one thing which I can say definitely is that there were many people like the one posting this comment during those tensed days.

We hear the great words that we live in a modern world, we are a secular country, unity in diversity and all those stuffs. But do we really mean them? What about the Hindutva, Islam terrorists and others? Are they mearly political terms to keep ruling the great country applying the old rule - 'Divide and Rule'? Are they the terms which came out of nowhere just because of the selfish thinkings of a few people in power?

Well, a few days ago, I got a mail in which American visits India and then meets an Indian friend in America. Hos friend asked how was India. He replied that it was great. Then he was enquired whether he liked the Indians. To this he replied, "Indians? who Indians? I didnt find or meet a single Indian there in India. In Kashmir I met a Kashmiri; In Punjab I met a Punjabi, In Bihar, Maharastra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu I met a Bihari, Marathi, Bengali and Tamilian. Then I met a Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian, a Budhist and many more. But I didnot meet a single Indian".

That's really a bitter truth. British ruled us for so many years because we were divided. How united are we now? We have self divided us not only in the name of religion but also in the terms of the borders which were created just for better management of such a large democracy.

There are people even now who thinks that Mumbai is their property. I would like to ask them what is their contribution in making Mumbai. If they have an accurate answer(say x%), then give the rest (100-x)% to India and keep the rest. Can they do that? When we say Mumbai, it is meant to be an Indian city, rather than a maharastrian. Only few people from a place can't create a city like that. It is evident from the fact that Mumbai showcases the cultures and talents of whole of India. The same is true for the other parts of our country

This is one aspect. The other one being the religion based partition which is about to take a dangerous shape anytime. Just because of a handful number of self-centered people, we shouldn't blame all those who are associated with that person's religion. Osama is a terrorist, that doesn't mean we directly associate terrorism with Muslim. Bal Thackeray boasts about his being a Maharastrian more than that being an Indian, that doesn't mean none of the maharastrians are Indians. Pakistan is a Islam country, that doesn't mean all the Islams fom India should be thrown out of India. Bangadesh's language is Bengali, that in no way should hamper the authencity of the people of West Bengal.

India is in the top three of the rapidly developing countries in the world. But if we continue these kinds of differences between us, then the time will be near when the other countries will overtake it.

I appeal to all Indians to be united and fight against the social evils together like a unit as we did a few decades back.

Jai Hind

Love...

"love me kuch bhi likh sakte hai... thodi pyar ki baate... jo b dil se nikalta hai.... ek kavita likh sakte hai, ek shayari likh sakte hai... itne saari love stories me movie ban rahi hai to ek blog kyu nahi ban sakta..." This was chinu's reply when I asked him what to write on love (btw, chinu is my present rumie). Believe me, he took longer time to say it - the "..."s tried to show it a bit.

Whenever the word 'love' comes into any discussion, most of us are clueless. We simply try to translate the heart's language into our's. Undoubtedly, the responder himself is not satisfied with the brief description of the most widespread word.

Once I was watching a cricket match. Suddenly, one of my friends came and asked me - "Yaar, love ka definition batao to jara". I repled, "Love is undefined, baaki match k baad" But during the rest of the match I thought, why is love undefined? Why can't we define it using such a large database of so many different languages? Why can't we add up all the words like care, respect, trust and many more to define one word.

Well, the reason is - Love is a word in itself, it cant be replaced by any other word or word combination. Mathematically, it can't be represented as a linear combination of words (ofcourse, except the corresponding word in other languages). Love is a kind of feeling which can only be expressed by highly encoded mental analog signals.

"Pyar k liye to hum apni jaan bhi de sakte hain" - It's a normal line of all the 'aashiques'. Whenever I hear that, I can just think of a large smile. Is it so? If it is, then why does it change when it comes to real life implementation? Why are there so many divorces taing place nowadays? The answer lies in the difference between love and true love. A person saying the above sentence thinks that he is in true love. Whether it is true or not has to be left for the time to prove.

When it comes to true love, true enhances the so called definition. But the difference can only be felt through time. It may take a few hours or a few years to know whether a love is true or not.

Letme now try to define love. Remember, even after I complete this blog, I will have points in my mind to enhance the definition(as mentioned earlier) coz true love doesn't need words, it can explain itself.

According to me, love means caring for someone selfishlessly, throughout our life without expecting anything in return. It's a feeling which is not felt manually but it comes automatically and it doesn't leave you even if you try your best.

As a mathematician, I'll define true love as a point in the infinity, which you know that it exist but you can never really reach there to catch it, you can never feel the exact feeling associated with it, you can only view it as a star and tell about its properties. As large numbers can just tend to infinity, love just tends to that ideal real love. There's no limit to it.

A few 'definitions' of love from various sources:

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things; believes all things; hopes all things; endures all things.

Love is just a miserable lie - Morrissey

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love - Robert Fulghum

A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder - Ambrose Bierce

Love is a strong liking for someone. It's a strong passionate affection for another person.

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment - Wikipedia

Real love isn't blind. It sees, sees everything but loves anyway.

True love is giving all you have to someone you know you're going to lose - Ray H Wall

Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil - Goethe

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination - Voltaire

For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Love is when you look into someone's eyes and go all the way inside, to their soul and you both know... instantly - Angela Chase

New Year Resolution..!..?..@

New Year knocking the door and we all started to make our yet another New Year Resolutions.
Here is mine : umesh.majhi/root/HOME/MyFiles/Docs/Recent/Resolutions09.txt

Well, Almost all of us wait for this particular day to make resolutions for the upcoming 365 days! Come December last week and we are busy in preparing our general resolution list. One of the common questions on Dec 31st and Jan is - What's ur New Yr Resolution?

If we go a bit dipper into the list, we'll find that the most of the items are repeating each year. Common stuffs like waking up early in the morning, going for jogging, dieting(esp. girls), control anger, contact friends more frequently etc always occupy the bulk portion.

Why do people wait for a particular day to live a better life. Can't they just implement the same in their life whenever they feel the need for a change. What is gonna happen if one starts going for evening walk from 31st December? Is the moon gonna fall down if someone thinks of jogging early morning from a fine day in October? Does it cost you more if you start getting in touch with your friends right now?

I guess, one doesn't need any special day or time to think and act in a better way. If one feels like stop watching movies so frequently, he/she can do it straightaway. It doesn't matter whether its 1st of January or 18th April or 23rd July or 12th August or 31st December. The only thing matters is the way you approach, the determination you show, the hard work you put in, the courage you need and the satisfaction you get in achieving it.

@ the top of this post, I had given you a link. That link doesn't exist! I don't believe in special resolutions on special days. I always think and whenever feel like a change is needed, I simply go for it. I had thought of controlling my emotions, I did that on 26th Feb. I had thought of calling atleast one contact(mobile) daily, I am doing that since 23rd July. I had thought of trying Hathway, I straightaway contacted and kick started on 29th Nov. I had thought of writing more blogs, I implemented it on the fine morning of 31st December.

As per today, I don't feel like any suitable change at the moment. May b in a couple of days I'll come up with another new idea for myself and then would go for it...

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