Thanks to rediff.com for an opportunity to partcipate in this debate. It was a disaster for us to have created another Frankenstein to our east. This is not wisdom in hindsight; the guru of realpolitik, Dr.Henry Kissinger had even then warned of the potent danger of an Islamic state on India's Eastern borders, although our political class and media were euphoric about having "proved the two-nation theory wrong". No sir, it was not proven wrong. I'm afraid our so-called intellegentsia either does not want to understand the ramifications of the two-nation theory or is incapable it. The theory holds Hindus and Muslims constitute two separate nations, and the emergence of Bangladesh does not disprove it. But we were ready to swallow Mujib's so-called 'secularism'. The Bangladesh war was a triumph of our armed forces, no doubt, but a miserable failure of our diplomacy. The Simla Accord, trusting a defeated but treacherous enemy like Pakistan, the transformation of Bangladesh into an Islamic jihadi state, not to forget Paki-ISI terror, is proof of the fact that India's Nehruvian establishment is a wolly-headed one, incapable of learning the lessons of history. Jaganniwas Iyer
