I appreciate the central idea of mindshift highlighted in this enlightening peace. Since the independence and passing through several unfinished wars, Indo-Pak history has many evidences of peace being held as hostage of jingoism and false sense of nationalism. Perpetuation of ill-feeling fed on bitterness and hatred has so far led to nowhere and certainly does not promise anything better in future.
Coming out of our pre-conceived mindset based on unpleasant events of 20th Century, we need to chart a new course of future based on amity, peace and prosperity. Evolution of post-second world war Europe (more particularly Germany) is an ideal case, where bitterness of history has been pushed in the back to recreate nation with strong economic capabilities, bringing much of national pride and glory as a natural bye-product.
Irony is that carrying such onerous thought from history has great opportunity cost attached to it, which our poor economy is hard to sustain. So while we feel proud in maintaining post in most difficult terrain in Siachin (the highest battlefield in the world), we keep falling below in the world human resources development index on every successive year.
