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After 75 years after Independence, where are the two countries headed?

Why do the laments of the 1950s still ring true?...

While it was always clear Pakistan would be different from India, the kind of Muslim polity it would become was not that clear

Political leaders use religion to promote their political agenda, and to gather votes in order to get in position of power and influence.

Students learn about the rulers and the ‘wars’ they always ‘won’.

Well established ever since Pakistan gained its independence in 1947, that country’s alliance with Saudi Arabia has recently been compromised by the Kashmir crisis and the rapprochement between Riyadh and New Delhi. Identity-based thinking in Pakistan harks back to the 1947 partition which separated the country from India after Britain’s withdrawal and when Pakistan became the first modern nation to be established in the name of Islam. In 1949, the new regime published its Objectives (...)

Like indigenous people around the globe, India’s adivasis too have been savaged and ravaged by later people claiming to be more 'civilised'

Picking her to be next president of India resonates totemically with the wishes of Adivasi icon Jaipal Munda.

Fear of conversion

The question is a source of endless curiosity for Pakistanis