The End of indian by Jaswant Singh
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in his book end of india (from which thw writer Jaspreet has taken insperation) bu kushwant singh writes:
'I thought the nation was coming to an end, looking back on the violence of Partition over half a century ago. He believed then, and for years afterwards, that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. Over the last few years, however, he has had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, is still to come. he shows u indians what few of u wish to see: why it is that India will come undone in the foreseeable future.
the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and targeted killings by terrorists in different parts of the country, Khushwant Singh forces indians to confront the extreme corruption of religion that has made u [Indians] among the most brutal people on earth. Why Indians have always been too tolerant of extremist hindu ideologies, the rise of religious fundamentalism among the Hindus threatens the democracy and everything else that u take for granted. With sections of the ruling coalition openly supporting the divisive and retrograde agenda of the fundamentalists, it is the very idea of India that is at stake. 'Unless a miracle saves u,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.'
a must for all indians as it will give u a reality check.
'I thought the nation was coming to an end, looking back on the violence of Partition over half a century ago. He believed then, and for years afterwards, that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. Over the last few years, however, he has had reason to feel that the worst, perhaps, is still to come. he shows u indians what few of u wish to see: why it is that India will come undone in the foreseeable future.
the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and targeted killings by terrorists in different parts of the country, Khushwant Singh forces indians to confront the extreme corruption of religion that has made u [Indians] among the most brutal people on earth. Why Indians have always been too tolerant of extremist hindu ideologies, the rise of religious fundamentalism among the Hindus threatens the democracy and everything else that u take for granted. With sections of the ruling coalition openly supporting the divisive and retrograde agenda of the fundamentalists, it is the very idea of India that is at stake. 'Unless a miracle saves u,' Khushwant Singh writes, 'the country will break up. It will not be Pakistan or any other foreign power that will destroy us; we will commit hara-kiri.'
a must for all indians as it will give u a reality check.
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