Comments on: Who will win the game? http://razarumi.com/2008/12/06/who-will-win-the-game/ Just another WordPress site Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:58:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: V http://razarumi.com/2008/12/06/who-will-win-the-game/#comment-8727 V Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:56:34 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/?p=1230#comment-8727 milieu, It's not nationalism, it's national-chauvinism. milieu,

It’s not nationalism, it’s national-chauvinism.

]]> By: milieu http://razarumi.com/2008/12/06/who-will-win-the-game/#comment-8660 milieu Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:56:21 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/?p=1230#comment-8660 <i>Mr. Jinnah and the Muslim League had accepted the Cabinet Mission proposals in 1946 that would have created a confederation of three loosely-affiliated regions with a recognizable central government responsible for defence, currency and foreign affairs. The Congress rejected it and Partition assumed an inevitable uncontrollable dynamic.</i> Nationalism as someone said is the measles of the masses. But in the subcontinent it is a disease amongst the elite and the middle class. For the poor farmer, wether he is in the NWFP or in Bangladesh or in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, these things are secondary. So if you go back to the blame game of partition, it was simply politics at its best (or worst) and neither side has anything honorable to show for. Thankfully, this attack came when there is a sane(r) government in power in India which wasn't itching for confrontation, though perhaps its very survival is in doubt. This will not be a zero sum game of Who will win? but just of Who will not lose? Mr. Jinnah and the Muslim League had accepted the Cabinet Mission proposals in 1946 that would have created a confederation of three loosely-affiliated regions with a recognizable central government responsible for defence, currency and foreign affairs. The Congress rejected it and Partition assumed an inevitable uncontrollable dynamic.

Nationalism as someone said is the measles of the masses. But in the subcontinent it is a disease amongst the elite and the middle class.

For the poor farmer, wether he is in the NWFP or in Bangladesh or in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, these things are secondary.

So if you go back to the blame game of partition, it was simply politics at its best (or worst) and neither side has anything honorable to show for.

Thankfully, this attack came when there is a sane(r) government in power in India which wasn’t itching for confrontation, though perhaps its very survival is in doubt.

This will not be a zero sum game of Who will win? but just of Who will not lose?

]]> By: RR http://razarumi.com/2008/12/06/who-will-win-the-game/#comment-8654 RR Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:36:57 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/?p=1230#comment-8654 Thanks Vandana Yes, we have to find a solution and live with each other whether we like it or not! Thanks Vandana
Yes, we have to find a solution and live with each other whether we like it or not!

]]> By: Vandana http://razarumi.com/2008/12/06/who-will-win-the-game/#comment-8649 Vandana Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:34:26 +0000 http://www.razarumi.com/?p=1230#comment-8649 Whether we do it willingly or unwillingly our two countries will have to find a way of working together and finding a way out of the current depressing mess.We are like the 'seperated at birth'siblings of the Hindi film stories and in the end we will have to acknowledge that shared parentage,the sibling rivalry and the rest of the stuff that comes with it and make our way forward.The spate of unsavory mails back and forth across the border and the less than polite comments etc all have been done before too but in the end serve no purpose except temporary letting off of steam. I hope both sides take these comments in their stride and get on with what needs to be done. Whether we do it willingly or unwillingly our two countries will have to find a way of working together and finding a way out of the current depressing mess.We are like the ‘seperated at birth’siblings of the Hindi film stories and in the end we will have to acknowledge that shared parentage,the sibling rivalry and the rest of the stuff that comes with it and make our way forward.The spate of unsavory mails back and forth across the border and the less than polite comments etc all have been done before too but in the end serve no purpose except temporary letting off of steam.
I hope both sides take these comments in their stride and get on with what needs to be done.

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