[Reader-list] Jaswant’s Jinnah -view across the border

[asad abbasi]

 Dear All,

Surely people like Jinnah will never fade away from history specially south asian histor.

I was trying to make a point that how long will Jinnah's personality AS portrayed in the book will sustain in India.

 

Regards,

Asad


Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:06:59 +0530
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Jaswant’s Jinnah -view across the border
From: rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com
To: 2tahamehmood at googlemail.com
CC: asad_abbasi at hotmail.com; reader-list at sarai.net


Dear all,


   neither Nehru nor Jinnah are easy to forget, both were human beings with human fault lines, and the fault lines were hidden for too long so that the chasm had to be maintained for the sake of power, if Nehru had agreed for the suggestion of Mahatma, to agree  of Jinnah being the prime minister, being senior in Indian national Congress, the independence would have meant lot much more, would not have resulted in the great "sacrifice" of Nehru of all his assets to the nation in family held trusts.But enthusiasm of Nehru to be the "first" PM has had been his undoing, and today we have Gandhi s who are now  no way Gandhian, even remotely with his principles of life, used only for enhancement of their asset base in swiss banks and on the stadias, ghats of New Delhi.!
As to Jinnah, it was the isolation policies of Nehru and his chamchas, that many likes of Jinnah, Nethaji  Subhashchandra Bose,  who was elected president of INC had to forgo leadership to please this debauch man of Nehru.


 Regards,


Rajen.


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

Dear Asad,

Contrary to your fears I think the memory of Jinnah is not going to
fade away in near or in far future primarily because the memory of
people like Jinnah is, of course, etched in foundational narratives of
modern south asian nation states. Jinnah like figures are always going
to be deeply polarizing figures. They will always be revered in some
places and hounded in others. As chacha Ghalib says- 'Jab tawwqo he
utth gai ghalib, kyon kisi ka gila kare koi'. I don't think that
'tawwqo' or attention on these people is going to go away ever. The
editorial also gives a predictable spin by explaining a 'foreign'
event in locally understood idiom.

Warm regards

Taha

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