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India and Pakistan were divided 76 years ago, but there remain outstanding financial claims between the two nations due to asset division. When the British Empire divided the countries, Lord Radcliffe drew the lines on a map but the division of assets was a much more difficult negotiation. Assets ranged from moveable ones, such as office furniture and lightbulbs, to personnel, with government departments, defence forces and the central bank requiring careful division. Even today, both countries still claim the other owes them money, stemming from disagreements over payment of outstanding balances.
The Union law minister used the 75th anniversary of Kashmir’s accession to India to launch his diatribe against Nehru’s dilatoriness in accepting the accession. But his main purpose seemed entirely different.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru at a Congress meet Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is in the news this year—mainly for the fact that the start of his 125thbirth anniversary coincides with what will be a bitterly contested state election in his native state West Bengal in May. The Union government declared January 23 as ‘Parakram Divas’, or Valour Day, to commemorate his birth anniversary. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to address a rally in Kolkata on this day. The Mamata Banerjee government, sensing a BJP attempt to appropriate another Bengali icon, has announced plans to celebrate the day as ‘Desh Nayak Diwas’. Either ways, the legacy of an iconic freedom fighter has got another lease of life.