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Their heads turn like radar antennas with the passing swaddle of clothing until the poor nondescript thing that could possibly be a woman—if he is not a suicide bomber in disguise—is out of sight. These staring Morlocks would very likely go berserk seeing the bare legs and arms in Amritsar.
It was incomprehensible that the truest Iron Curtain would eventually fall along the new border of this ancient land.
But this mental sickness of claiming Arab origin is not specific to the Arains. There are no Muslims in Pakistan who do not believe in true Arab blood for themselves. Even thoroughbred Rajputs, Jats and Gujjars, all Indo-Aryan peoples, sing of some fictitious Arab ancestor, a valorous general to boot, who descended upon the subcontinent with the army of Mohammad bin Qasim. So pervasive is this insanity that it begins to seem that until the coming of the Arabs, India was a land inhabited only by wild beasts.
said to our subedar sahib his behaviour was exactly what had alienated the Bengalis. Now it was the turn of the Sindhis. The man shocked me when he said they deserved to be treated like this for they too were Hinduized. He was referring to the Sindhi custom of joining the hands in greeting.
There was just one unholy, bloody-minded haste to divide the country and be done with it. And damn those hapless, helpless people caught in the vortex of the violence that promised to accompany this upheaval.
Mountbatten, who to my mind appears to be incredibly immature and even foolish—a moron who should have been tried for crimes against humanity and hanged
Jinnah wanted it done the soonest in view of his tuberculosis of the lungs that he knew was killing him, a fact which he skilfully kept from public knowledge.
Instead of abdicating their responsibility as they did, district officers and police should have been in place to see that no violence took place. Had that been, this Mother of all Holocausts would not have occurred.
It was as if someone wished to teach the people of India a lesson for their impudence in demanding freedom from the Raj. I suspect that someone was Mountbatten
If I am anything, I, a child of the Maha Sapta Sindhu, am the truest Hindu.
