India and Pakistan

Just as Prime Minister Vajpayee's acclaimed Lahore bus visit and the Lahore Declaration in February 1999 was followed by the Kargil war in May the same year, so also Prime Minister Modi's recent Lahore visit, with all its bonhomie, hoopla and fanfare has been followed by the attack by militants on the Pathankot Air Force base, and later by the attack on the Indian consulate in Mazhar-e-Sharif.

There are many people who want improvement of relations between India and Pakistan. They say that if France and Germany can live as good neighbours after long years of animosity, why cannot we ?

In my opinion such people are living in a fool's paradise, and they forget certain basic facts.

Pakistan was created by the Britishers as a theological state on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations,so that Hindus and Muslims keep fighting each other, and thereby two aims of Westerners are achieved

(1) Our subcontinent remains weak, and does not emerge as a modern industrial giant, like China, of which it has now all the potential with our huge pool of engineers, technicians, scientists, and immense raw materials, and our economy does not become a big rival to Western industries.

(2) India ( of which Pakistan is really a part ) keeps spending billions of dollars on arms purchases from Western arms manufacturers, money which could and should have been spent on the welfare of our people to reduce poverty, unemployment, malnourishment, lack of healthcare, etc.

So all this talk of ' improving ' relations between India and Pakistan is humbug and cant. There can never be good relations between India and Pakistan becuase if there are good relations beteen the two, the very raison d'etre of Pakistan will disappear.

How was Pakistan created ?

 For this we have to delve into history.

Up to 1857, there were no communal problems in India.  All communal riots and animosity began after 1857. No doubt even before 1857, there were differences between Hindus and Muslims, the Hindus going to temples and the Muslims going to mosques, but there was no animosity. In fact, the Hindus and Muslims used to help each other like brothers; Hindus used to participate in Eid celebrations, and Muslims in Holi and Diwali. The Muslim rulers like the Mughals, Nawab of Awadh and Murshidabad, Tipu Sultan, etc were totally secular; they organised Ramlilas, participated in Holi, Diwali, etc. Ghalib’s affectionate letters to his Hindu friends like Munshi Shiv Naraln Aram, Har Gopal Tofta, etc attest to the affection between Hindus and Muslims at that time.

In 1857, the ‘Great Mutiny’ broke out in which the Hindus and Muslims jointly fought against the British. This shocked the British government so much that after suppressing the Mutiny, they decided to start the policy of divide and rule (see online “History in the Service of Imperialism” by B.N. Pande). All communalism after 1857, artificially engineered by the British authorities. The British collector would secretly call the Hindu Pandit, pay him money, and tell him to speak against Muslims, and similarly he would secretly call the Maulvi, pay him money, and tell him to speak against Hindus. This communal poison was injected into our body politic year after year and decade after decade.

In 1909, the ‘Minto-Morley Reforms’ introduced separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims. The idea was propagated that Hindi is the language of Hindus, while Urdu of Muslims (although Urdu was the common language of all educated people, whether Hindu, Muslim or Sikh in large parts of India upto 1947). The RSS and Hindu Mahasabha were created by the British to spread hatred of Muslims, and Muslim League was created by them to spread hatred of Hindus ( the Congress party was also created by the British through their agent A.O.Hume, and its leadership later taken over by their agent Gandhi, who ensured that the genuine independence struggle initiated by Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen, etc was diverted to a harmless non violent direction so as not to harm British interests ) ). The Aligarh Muslim University and Benaras Hindu University were set up to further this communal divide. All this vicious propaganda resulted in the partition of 1947, which created a fake, artificial theocratic nation called Pakistan.

Nation states arose in Europe around the 16th century because of the rise of modern industry. Modern industry, unlike feudal handicraft industry, requires a big market for its goods and a large area from where it can get raw materials.

The creation of a state based on religion destroys the very basis of a nation, because it cuts off industries from markets and raw materials.

British imperialism created India as a big administrative unit. The British policy was to prohibit the growth of heavy industry in India; otherwise, the Indian industry, with its cheap labour, would have become a powerful rival to British industry.

When the British left India, they divided us so that we may keep fighting each other and remain backward and weak, and not emerge as a modern powerful industrial state (for which we have now all the potential), and a market for their arms industries. This was the real reason for creating Pakistan.

I submit that Pakistan was doomed from its very inception; firstly, because there is such tremendous diversity in our subcontinent that only secularism can work here, and secondly, because a modern nation cannot be based on religion (because this will cut it off from its markets and raw materials).

If this theory, that religion can be the basis of a nation, is accepted then logically England should be partitioned into at least about 8 states. The majority in England are Anglican Protestant Christians, but there are many Scottish Presbyterians and other kinds of Protestants, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, etc. Similarly, France has a sizeable Muslim population (descendants of North African Arabs belonging to the former French colonies in North Africa) and Germany has many Turks.. The French and German Muslims, and people of other religions too, should then be given  separate states (if the two nation theory is accepted as valid ).

Anyone can see that this will create chaos. Hardly any country can survive if this theory is accepted because in almost every country there are people of different religions. And in the Indian subcontinent secularism is all the more vital in view of the tremendous diversity here (because the Indian subcontinent is broadly a country of immigrants, as I have pointed out in my article 'What is India' on my blogjusticekatju.blogspot.in and in the video on the website kgfindia.com ).

We can see the result of creating a theocratic state (Pakistan) in which chaos and religious extremism is prevailing so that many people cannot lead normal lives. Apart from the minorities (Hindus, Christians, Sikhs,etc), Ahmadis, Shias, etc are also persecuted, and intolerance and terrorism is the order of the day. In India, too, certain vested interests thrive on communalism. So secularism is the only policy which is suitable to our subcontinent.

I am confident that with passage of time people, both in India and Pakistan, will realise the truth in what I am saying, and India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) will reunite under a strong, secular government which does not tolerate religious extremism, whether Hindu or Muslim, and crushes with it with an iron hand.

Secularism does not mean that one cannot practice his religion. It means that religion is a private affair, unconnected with the state that will have no religion.

What is Pakistan ? It is Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and NWFP. All these were part of India since Mughasl times.

When I meet Pakistanis, we speak in Hindustani, we look like each other, share the same culture, and feel no difference between ourselves. We were befooled by the Britishers into thinking that we are enemies, but how much longer must we remain befooled? How much longer must blood flow in religious violence in Quetta, Karachi, Gujarat, Kashmir etc..?

Those who oppose the idea of reunification say it is only a pipe dream. But when Mazzini proposed unification of Italy his idea too was initially regarded as a pipe dream, but this dream became a reality later under Cavour and Garibaldi. Germany was united by Bismarck.

Many people say that we were divided in 1947, and much water has flown since then. But Germany was united in 1990 after being divided for 45 years. Vietnam was united in 1975 after being divided for 30 years. China has not yet recognized Taiwan, though separated from it since 1945.

Many people say that we cannot unite because there is too much religious extremism on both sides. I submit that this extremism is largely artificially created, and will subside once we are reunited under a strong secular government which does not tolerate it. Most people want to live in peace and harmony.

I do not expect reunification in the immediate future, particularly since those who have divided us will not let us easily reunite. But reunification is an idea whose time has come, and this idea must be spread by all patriotic people

'Qaid-e-Azam' Jinnah

Jinnah is called 'Qaid-e-Azam', ( leader of the People) by Pakistanis, who regard him as a hero.

But what is the reality ?

It was Jinnah who relentlessly advocated the bogus two nation theory (that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations) and the mischievous British policy of divide and rule which resulted in Partition of India in 1947 with all its horrors. (Please read Saadat Hasan Manto's stories about Partition in this connection).

It is estimated that as a result of Partition 5 lac Hindus and Muslims were killed and millions uprooted and driven out of their native places. Was he ever distressed by the terrible unhappiness which was caused as a direct result of his actions ? Was his sleep disturbed by the thousands of people killed in Calcutta and elsewhere as a result of his call for ' Direct Action ' in August1946 ? Not at all. All that he wanted was to satisfy his ambition to become Qaid-e-Azam and head of the fake, artificial country called Pakistan ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' online and on my blog justicekatju.blogspot.in ), which was the goal of the British whose loyal stooge he was, and the sole aim of creating which was to keep Hindus and Muslims fighting with each other.

 Pakistan was really created by the British, but they got the loyal service of those two rascals, Gandhi and Jinnah. The tragedy is that these two rogues are still hero worshipped in India and Pakistan, when they should have been condemned. Does this not prove what I have been saying for long, that 90% Indians ( in whom I include Pakistanis.also, since Pakistan is no country but is really part of India, and will one day revert to India ). are fools ?

Reply to Mr. Sartaj Aziz

Mr. Sartaj Aziz, the Adviser to the Pakistan Prime Minister on foreign affairs, in a statement made in the Pakistan Senate recently, said

(1) Pakistan will not accept the superiority of India, and 

(2) It would continue highlighting the Kashmir issue worldwide.

 My reply is : 

(1) The question of superiority and inferiority arises if there are two countries. But if there is only one country, where is the question of superiority or inferiority ?

 In fact Pakistan is no country at all. It is a fake, artificial entity created by the British on the basis of the bogus two nation theory to ensure that Hindus and Muslims keep fighting each other,and that India ( of which Pakistan is really a part ) does not emerge as a modern, powerful, prosperous country, like China, for which it has now all the potential with its huge pool of bright engineers and scientists, and immense natural resources.

 The two nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations, was a mischievous hoax  and fraud by the British on the Indian people using their agents like Jinnah, and Partition in 1947 was done on that basis. Since the theory itself is bogus, the only resolution of this historical swindle and fraud is reunification of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh under a strong, secular, modern minded government which will not tolerate religious extremism of any kind and crush it with an iron hand.

 People in India ( in which I include Pakistan and Bangladesh ) must realize that we were duped and taken for a ride by the British. The British and some others are still laughing at us, seeing how they befooled us. Do you like to be befooled and laughed at ?

 Those who say that much water has passed since 1947 and now what is done cannot be undone should be reminded of Germany which was reunited after 45 year separation. China has still not recognized Taiwan, though they were separated in 1945. Did President Abraham Lincoln accept the Confederate States of America ( the slave holding states  ) in 1861 ?

 Some say that the reunification idea of mine is a day dream. My reply is : when Mazzini proposed unification of Italy, most people said it was  a day dream, but it was realized later by Cavour and Garibaldi.

 When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them, we look like each other, speak the same language ( Hindustani ), have the same culture ( love for Urdu poetry, Hindustani classical music, etc ), the same food habits, etc. In fact when Indians and Pakistanis meet in foreign countries they mix together and socialize as if Partition never took place.We were befooled by the Britishers into thinking we were enemies, but how much longer must we remain befooled ? How much longer must blood flow between us ?
 What is Pakistan ? It is Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan and NWFP. These were part of India in the time of Emperor Ashoka ( his edicts are still found in some of those places ). They were part of India in Mughal and British times.
  Those who talk of 'improving' relations ; between India and Pakistan are living in a fool's paradise. Pakistan was created so that there should be perpetual enmity between us, and thereby India should remain weak and poor. Whenever it appears that relations between us are improving there is some incident of hostility.
 Look at the amount of money we spend on arms purchases abroad. India spends about 40 billion dollars every year on arms purchases, and Pakistan also spends a huge amount on them. Much of this money could be saved and spent on the welfare of our people. Can a poor country like ours afford such huge amounts on unproductive matters ?

 Of course reunification will take time, may be 15-20 years, firstly because those who divided us will not let us easily reunite, and secondly because the poison of the divide and rule policy ( communal hatred ) which was injected into our society consistently by the British after 1857 ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' and the speech 'History in the Service of Imperialism ' by B.N. Pandey, available online ) will take time to remove. However, I am injecting the anti-dote, though it will take time to have effect, as the poison of one and a half centuries cannot be eliminated in one day.

 (2) The Kashmir issue will automatically be resolved on the reunification of India and Pakistan under a strong, secular government. Then both parts of Kashmir will be united, and have a democratically elected state government, but within a federal Indian government. I am myself a Kashmiri, and have the welfare of Kashmir at heart. I know what the Kashmiri Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits have suffered. My message to Kashmiris is not to be misguided by the separatist leaders who have their own vested interests and agenda, and who do not really care for the welfare of Kashmiris. Talk of independence for Kashmir is nonsensical, and will result in more suffering. Instead of the slogan of independence, Kashmiris must raise the slogan of reunification of India and Pakistan under a strong secular government.

 Secularism does not mean that one cannot practise one's own religion. It means that religion is a private affair, unconnected with the state, which will have no religion.

The truth about Partition

I have today read Ayesha Jalal's book 'The Sole Spokesman'. In my opinion it is superficial and has made no difference to my view that it was the British who were responsible for the Partition of India, with Jinnah as their main agent ( though ultimately the Congress Party also acquiesed).The same Jinnah who was secular and the ' Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity' in the 1920s later became the main protagonist of the fraudulent two nation theory in the 1930s. Obviously he did this to satisfy his ambition to become the 'Quaid-e-Azam', regardless of the suffering his actions caused to both Hindus and Muslims. His call for Direct Action Day resulted in the terrible Calcutta killings in 1946. And, of course, the Partition resulted in the deaths of 500,000 people, Hindu and Muslim, and the uprooting of millions from their native places. Did this cause any grief to Jinnah ? Not at all. As long his ambition was satisfied he was not bothered about the horrible miseries he had caused.

If you read Jinnah's speeches and his letters ( they have all been published) you will see that from the 1930s onwards he relentlessly preached the 2 nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations, and therefore cannot co-exist together. This was of course humbug.

If you wish to really understand the causes of Partition you must go further back in history. Upto 1857 there was no communal problem. Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony, and with great regard for one another. Hindus used to join in Eid celebrations, and Muslims in Holi and Diwali. The Muslim rulers like the Mughals ( though there is a controversy about Aurangzeb), the Nawabs of Avadh and Murshidabad, Tipu Sultan, etc were thoroughly secular. If you read Ghalib's letters to his Hindu friends like Hargopal Tofta, Munshi Shivnarain Aram, etc you will find how much affection there was between Hindus and Muslims upto 1857.

I may give some examples. Once Holi and Muharram fell coincidentally on the same day on the same day. The Nawab of Avadh, Wajid Ali Shah was a Shia. After taking out the tazia and burying it in the karbala in Lucknow, he enquired why Holi was not being celebrated. He was told that since Holi was a festival of joy, while Muharram was an occasion of sorrow, Hindus had decided not to celebrate Holi that year out of respect for the sentiments of their Muslim brethren. On hearing this the Nawab declared that since Hindus had respected the sentiments of their Muslim brethren, it was the duty of Muslims also to respect the sentiments of their Hindu brethren. He then announced that Holi would be celebrated the same day throughout Avadh, and he himself was the first to play Holi, although it was also Muharram day.

I may give another example. I had once gone to Shringeri in the state of Karnataka. That is the peeth or centre of the southern Shankaracharya ( the adi, or original, Shankaracharya had established 4 peeths for Hindus in the north, west, south, and east). The present Shankaracharya, Bharati Teerth, showed me 30 letters sent by Tipu Sultan with monetary grants to the then Shankaracharya. In one of these letters Tipu Sultan says that it is because of the blessings of the great saint Shankaracharya that his kingdom has prospered, there are good rains, people are happy, etc. Just next to the palace of Tipu Sultan still exists a huge, old Shiva temple.

I can give dozens more of such examples to show that there was no communal problem till 1857. There were no communal riots before that year.

In 1857 the Mutiny broke out, in which Hindus and Muslims jointly fought against the British. After crushing it the British decided that the only way to control India was divide and rule. So directives were sent from London to the British Government in India that all efforts should be made to make Hindus and Muslims fight with each other. You can see details of these directives in B.N.Pandey's speech 'History in the Service of Imperialism' online. The speech was delivered by Prof. Pandey in the Indian Rajya Sabha ( Upper House of Parliament).

All communal riots, artificially engineered by the British authorities began after 1857. The British Collector would secretly call the Hindu Pandit, give him some money, and tell him to start speaking against Muslims, and similarly he would call the Muslim Maulana, give him money, and tell him to start speaking against Hindus. Music was deliberately played by agent provocateurs before mosques at prayer times to provoke Muslims. Cows were killed and thrown in front of Hindu temples by such people to provoke Hindus.

This poison was systematically injected into our society year after year and decade after decade after 1857. The Minto Morley 'Reforms' of 1909 introduced separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims to divide the communities. Every devilish step was taken by the scheming Britishers to sow the seeds of discord between us.

Obviously for this the British had to have local agents, and they chose Jinnah as their main one as he was the most efficient ( though there were others too, including some in the Congress Party).

The purpose of the British for dividing was to keep us weak and disunited by making Hindus and Muslims keep fighting each other, and thus be exploited. Partition in 1947 was also for the same purpose, so that we could continue to be exploited even after the British left, and may not become a highly industrialised state and thus rival for western industry.

I am afraid Ayesha Jalal knows nothing of all this, and hence her book is totally superficial.

'Qaid-e-Azam' Jinnah

Jinnah is called 'Qaid-e-Azam', ( leader of the People) by Pakistanis, who regard him as a hero.
But what is the reality ?

It was Jinnah who relentlessly advocated the bogus two nation theory (that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations) and the mischievous British policy of divide and rule which resulted in Partition of India in 1947 with all its horrors. (Please read Saadat Hasan Manto's stories about Partition in this connection).

It is estimated that as a result of Partition 5 lac Hindus and Muslims were killed and millions uprooted and driven out of their native places. Was he ever distressed by the terrible unhappiness which was caused as a direct result of his actions ? Not at all. All that he wanted was to satisfy his ambition to become Qaid-e-Azam and head of the fake, artificial country called Pakistan, which was the goal of the British whose loyal stooge he was, and the sole aim of creating which was to keep Hindus and Muslims fighting with each other.

Gandhiji was deeply distressed by the Partition riots, and he went to Noakhali and other places where Hindus and Muslims had been killed and tried to bring about peace. But did Jinnah ever do that ? Not at all. He remained comfortably throughout this holocaust in his home. Should such a man who caused such misery and grief to millions be respected ?

The Plight of Muhajirs

My friend Mr. S.M.A. Kazmi, former Advocate General of U.P. has his sasural in Karachi. He was once returning on the Karachi to Delhi PIA flight when the air hostess came to him and said that the pilot wanted to meet him in the cockpit. 

He was a bit surprised, but nevertheless he went with her to the cockpit. There the pilot and co-pilot welcomed him and offered him some coffee and snacks. They then told him that they were Muhajirs, and wanted to migrate to India, as they were not happy in Pakistan. They had seen from his passport that he was an advocate of Allahabad High Court, and wanted to know the legal formalities enabling them to migrate from Pakistan to India.

Now the interesting thing is that in fact both these young men were born in Pakistan and had lived all their lives in Pakistan. It was their parents who had migrated after Partition in 1947. Yet they were not happy in Pakistan, as muhajirs are often still treated as outsiders in Pakistan.

Many Muslims had migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947 thinking that Muslims could only feel at home in an Islamic state, but later regretted their decision. However , having given up their Indian nationality and acquired Pakistani nationality it was impossible to come back. A few could get a short time (one month or so) visa to India, and that too with many restrictions, e.g. that the visa was restricted to visiting a particular city in India only, that one had to report to the nearest police station once a week, etc

Many old Muslims (for the muhajirs who migrated had become old) came to India and lived with their relatives in Delhi, Lucknow, Allahabad, Kanpur, Bihar, Delhi, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, etc. When they had to leave they wept bitterly.

The plight of the muhajirs living in Pakistan has been poignantly depicted in the long poem 'Muhajirnama' written by the eminent Urdu poet of India, Munawwar Rana. I am quoting a few couplets (shers) from the poem:

"Muhajir hain magar hum ek duniya chhod aaye hain
Tumhare paas jitna hai utna hum chhod aaye hain

Kai aankhen abhi tak yeh shikayat karti rehti hain
Ki hum behte hue kaajal ka dariya chhod aaye hain

Kahani ka yeh hissa aaj tak sab se chupaya hai
Ki hum mittee ke khatir apna sona chhod aaye hain

Bahut mumkin tha hum ek din yooheen wapas chale jaate
Magar hum neend ke alam mein chalna chhod aaye hain

Wahaan Baba Farid Aaj tak khushboo lutate hain
To kyon Darbar Saheb ko akela chhod aaye hain ?

Yahaan sab kuch mayassar hai yahaan har cheez haasil hai
Sabhi kuch hai magar Punjab aadha chhod aaye hain

Woh mandir ho ki masjid ho ki girja ho ki gurdwara
Jahaan sab saath rehte the woh duniya chhod aaye hain

Kiraye ka yeh kamra yeh ghuzarti zindagi apni
Wahan itna bada naukar ka kamra chhod aaye hain

Mazaa aata tha Urdu ka jahaan ki bhojpuri mein
Woh Chhapra chhod aaye hain woh Ballia chhod aaye hain

Yeh batwaara nahin tha yeh to naasamjhi hamari thi
Dhundal ke liye ghar ka ujaala chhod aaye hain

Baha lai hame hijrat ki aandhi ajnabi ghar mein
Jahaan paida hue the woh thikaana chhod aaye hain

Woh Amroha jahaan par ilm ke chashme ubalte the
Usey bhi hum banakar ek naala chhod aaye hain

Yeh woh qasbe hain jinme aaj tak tehzeeb palti hai
Rudauli, Barabanki, Naanpara chhod aaye hain

Kisi bhi haal mein apne watan ko chhod mat dena
Hamaara haal dekho ghar hum apna chhod aaye hain

Moharram mein hamara Lucknow Iran lagta tha
Madad maula Husainabad rotaa chhod aaye hain

Kahaa karti thi bachpan mein ki hum se dur mat jaana
Magar hum apni ammi ko akela chhod aaye hain

Yahaan to khushbuon ka jhonka tak nahin aata
Wahan hum ek Alam ko mahakta chhod aaye hain

Riyaya the to phir Hakim ka kehna kyon nahin maana ? 
Hakim the to kyon riyaya chhod aaye hain ?

Nai naslen sunengi to yakeen unko na aayega
Ki hum kaisi zameenen aur zamaana chhod aaye hain

Yeh poonchon kitni qabren chhod aaye hain buzurgon ki
Yeh mat poocho zameenen kitni beegha chhod aayen hain

Siyasat ke bune ek jaal mein hum phans gaye aakhir
Muhabbat se banaaya ghar ka naqsha chhod aaye hain

Bataa ai zindagi ab aur kitna saath dena hai
Ki saansen chal raheen hain aur jeena chhod aaye hain

Kisi ke sar par hum ilzaam bhi to dhar naheen sakte
Hum apni zindagi mein khud khala sa chhod aaye hain

Chalo aisa karen mil jul ke rona seekh len hum sab
Ki hum mil jul ke hasna khilkhilaana chhod aaye hain

Koi aane lage to ek chutki khaak mangwa lena
Wahi jisko samajhkar gard-e-sehra chhod aaye hain

To kya takseem hi buniyaad-e-Pakistan thehri thi ?
Hum ek tukde ke khatir mulk saara chhod aaye hain

Bichadte waqt ki woh siskiyaan woh phoot ke rona
Ki jaise machliyon ko hum tadapta chhod aaye hain

Woh hijrat thi ki mayyat thi tamaasha ban gaye the hum
Ghadi rukhsat ki aayi sab ko goonga chhod aaye hain

Nahin maloom tha jannat ki bhi takseem hoti hai
Magar Kashmir tujhko hum adhoora chhod aaye hain

Kai gorey abhi tak dur baithe has rahe honge
Ki do qaumon mein woh saahi ka kaanta chhod aaye hain

Bahut chup chup se rehte hain shikaayat bhi naheen karte
Ki ai khaak-e-watan hum saath tera chhod aaye hain

Gale milti hui nadiyaan gale milte hue mazhab
Allahabad ka kaisa nazaara chhod aaye hain

Kal ek amrood wale se kehna pad gaya humko
Jahaan se aaye hain is phal ki bagiya chhod aaye hain

Woh hairat mein hame takta rahaa kuch der, phir bola
Woh sangam ka ilaqa chut gaya, ki chhod aayen hain ?

Abhi hum sonch mein ghum the ki usse kya kaha jaaye
Hamare aansuon ne raaz uglaa chhod aaye hain

Karachi ka yeh halwa Bambai mein bhi to milta tha
To phir Bambai ko hum sisakta kyon chhod aaye hain ?

Avadh ko khwaab mein dekhen to aakhir kis tareh dekhen
Malihabad-Kakori-Sandila chhod aaye hain

Karachi tere khaatir Bambai bhi reh gayi peeche
Teri chaahat mein Poona aur Khandala chhod aaye hain

Gulabon ki bhari faslen abhi tak muntazir hongi
Sikandarpur, Ghazipur, Ballia chhod aaye hain

Kayi sadiyon ke qisse muh zabaani yaad hain jisko
Woh Dilli aur uska lal qila chhod aaye hain

Woh leechi se ladey pedon ka khamoshi se muh taknaa
Muzaffarpur hum tujhko akela chhod aayen hain

Banaras yaad karta hai ab tak jaane walon ko
Banaras ai Banaras hum tujhko kyon chhod aaye hain ?

Jaahaan ki khaak milkar jism ko loha banaate the
Woh Jhansi chhod aaye hain woh Datiya chhod aaye hain

Hamen bahka ke le aayi siyasat kis kharaabe mein
Chaman ko ho chuka hai ek arsaa chhod aaye hain

Dua ke phool Panditji jahaan takseem karte the
Gali ke mod par hum woh Shivala chhod aaye hain

Muhalle ke sabhi bachche jahaan miljul ke padhte the
Na jane kis liye woh paathshala chhod aaye hain

Usi mein bhai Jumman Ram ka kirdaar karte the
Abhi tak yaad hai jo Ramlila chhod aaye hain

Jahaan Akbar ne rishta karke buniyaad-e-wafa rakkhi
Wafadaron ka woh sachcha ilaqa chhod aaye hain

Zameen-e-Nanak-o-Chishti, Zubaan-e-Ghalib-o-Tulsi
Yeh sab kuch paas tha apne yeh saara chhod aaye hain

Sabhi tyohaar miljul kar manaate the wahaan jab the
Diwali chhod aaye hain, Dussehra chhod aaye hain

Badi sharmindagi hoti hai jab bhi sonch leten hain
Ki hum Ajmer, Kaliyar, Dewa chhod aaye hain

Hamen hijrat ki is andhi gufa mein yaad aata hai
Ajanta chhod aaye hain, Ellora chhod aaye hain

Kisi naqqash ke dast-e-hunar ne phool tanke the
Woh huqqa kya Moradabad saara chhod aaye hain

Jo ek patli sadak Unnao se Mohaan jaati hai
Waheen Hasrat ke khwabon ko bhatakta chhod aaye hain

Bhateeji ab saleeqe se dupatta odhti hogi
Wahi jisko jhoole mein humakta chhod aaye hain

Agar hijrat karni thi to hum arab hi jaate
Zara sa itr lekar mushk-e-naafa chhod aaye hain

Himalay se nikalti har nadi aawaz deti hai
Miyan ao, wuzu karlo, yeh jumla chhod aaye hain

Janaab-e-Mir ka diwan to hum saath le aaye
Magar hum Mir ke maathe ka kashka chhod aaye hain

Woh khudgharzi ka jazbaa aaj tak humko rulaata hai
Ki hum beta to le aaye, bhatija chhod aaye hain

Khuda jaane yeh hijrat thi ki hijrat ka tamaasha tha
Ujaale ki tamanna mein ujaala chhod aaye hain

Hansee aati hai apni hi adakaari pe khud humko
Bane phirte hain Yusuf Zuleikha chhod aaye hain

Basi thi jismen khushboo meri ammi ki jawani ki
Woh chadar chhod aaye hain, woh takiya chhod aaye hain

Woh khaprailon pe phaili har taraf angoor ki belen
Unhi belon se hum bachpan ko lipta chhod aaye hain

Harey honge abhi tak ped woh saare gulistaan ke
Badan pe jinke hum ek naam likkha chhod aaye hain

Hamen marne se pahle sabko yeh taakeed karni hai
Kisi ko mat bata dena ki kya kya chhod aaye hain"

India and Pakistan

It is my firm belief that India and Pakistan (and Bangladesh) must reunite under a strong secular modern minded government which does not tolerate religious extremism, and crushes it with an iron hand. I know this will not happen in the near future, because those who divided us will not let us easily reunite. But I am planting a seed which will grow up into a tree and bear fruit in 15-20 years. It will not bear fruit immediately, but unless it is planted now, there will be no fruit in the future.This will require patiently educating the people for a long time about the truth.

You must be mad at me for calling Pakistan a fake, artificial country. Let me clarify that I believe that 99% people of all countries are good, and therefore 99% people of Pakistan ( and India) are good. I am a disciple of the great philosopher Rousseau who believed that most people are good. However, most people are also simpletons, and can be befooled and taken for a ride by wicked people. That is what was done by the British to our people (see online 'History in the Service of Imperialism' by B.N.Pandey). There was zero% communalism in 1857, i.e. before the Mutiny, but after the Mutiny the British decided that the only way to control India was to spread communal hatred between Hindus and Muslims. This divide and rule policy was followed relentlessly and systematically by the British after 1857. The British Collector used to secretly call the Hindu Pandit, give him some money, and ask him to speak against Muslims, and similarly he would secretly call the Muslim Maulvi, give him money, and ask him to speak against Hindus. Communal riots were artificially engineered. This was done year after year, decade after decade. In 1909 separate electorates were introduced by the Minto-Morley 'Reforms'. All this resulted in the horrors of Partition (read the stories about Partition by Manto). Even after 1947 there are wicked people who are spreading communalism.

Unless we reunite there will never be peace. The 2 nation theory on the basis of which Pakistan was created is bogus. Whenever I meet my Pakistani friends I feel no different from them, we speak the same language, we look like each other, and we share our love for Urdu. How are we two different nations ? I will never accept this fraud. It was high time someone had to speak the truth, and it seems it was for me to bell the cat.

Read my article " The Truth about Pakistan "