Indian Opinion

Mukesh Devrari Jinnah is a controversial man. He is controversial because he used controversial ideas to advance controversial and communal interests of the Muslim community in India at the cost of multiculturalism and secular fabric of the nation. It is madness to claim that people of two religions cannot stay together in a British style parliamentary democracy. Jinnah claimed that Muslim minority consisting of tens of million did not trust the intent of leadership of religious majority.  Keeping religion at the centre of identity above everything else for political goals proved dangerous of South Asia. Not only Indians lost a strategic part of their country to Islamists of northern India, but it also paved the seeds of trouble in the future.  Many left-leaning scholars in Pakistan today feel that even if the creation of Pakistan did not have politically correct reasons, it still has a rightful claim to exist as a normal nation without sticking to any ideology. I...

Pakistani Flag. Source - Wikipedia Mukesh Devrari Pakistan has been carved out in 1947. It was an artificial nation. Islam was used as a tool to create a nation by encouraging separatism in Muslim majority areas. Violence was used as a tool to pressurize British government and Congress party. Finally, they gave in to the demands of Muslim separatists who claimed that Hindus and Muslims cannot stay together in one nation. Pakistan has seven provinces – Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan. Out of those 7 provinces, four are completely under the control of Punjabi Muslims.  Many Indian Muslims believe that Pakistan was created and imagined as a home for all South Asian Muslims. Only after partition, they realized that it was not the case. It provided a home to the Muslim elite who were not satisfied with the democratic turn India was about to take after the end of the British rule. ...

Mukesh Devrari M.A. Jinnah is perhaps the most abused man in India. Nationalists hate him. He is considered responsible for dividing India. He started his career as nationalist and ended up as a most vocal critic of the concept of India.  How this ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity turned rogue? This question still eludes a convincing answer.   Jinnah’s life can be divided broadly into two parts. In the initial part of his life, he was the loyal member of Congress party. According to the Pakistani historians he believed in the constitutional methods to achieve political goals. He disagreed with Gandhi’s methods of mass mobilization and protests.   Muslim historians, including Ayesha Jalal who glorifies ideas and achievements of Jinnah, prefer to highlight the non-religious lifestyle of Jinnah. He is also projected as a secular man who has nothing to do with the ideology of Islam as such. It helps Muslim historians to draw an inference that secular m...