Since the days of yore if there is one attribute India has consistently maintained and exhibited is foolishness that has invariably resulted in self-hurting. And if there is one single act of foolishness that India has consistently resorted to is trusting its neighbours from a certain religious community (I don't want to name it and be explicit). There is historical evidence that Indian boundary was extended upto current Afghanistan. However, as a particular religion originated from Western Asia, the part that we frequently call as "middle east", and progressed towards east, Indian boundary has steadily shrinked at its western front. India's latest strip off has been the deletion of the lands of nowadays referred Pakistan and Bangladesh from its map. And yet we don't learn. Yet we believe that our cunning, malicious neighbours are interested in peace. Well, guess what? They are not. They are just hibernating before they become powerful enough to slice out another chunk of India's flesh. And if we choose to trust them again, once more it would be only us left to blame when the inevitable happens and Indian boundary suffers another major shrinkage.
RE:there's still time
by Raja Ehsan Khan Chattar on May 18, 2005 11:40 AM Permalink
Once, British Empire included India in its borders. That didn't make India part of England. Historically Indian sub-continent consisted of the following parts: Hind, Sindh and Deccan. Sindh ( The Indus and its tributries) is Pakistan. It was almost always a separate country or countries.Anyways, historic India is Indus valley that is contemporary Pakistan. Contemporary India is actually "Bharat". India should call itself Hindustan or Bharat. Word "India" belongs to Pakistan. Kashmir kept itself a soverign country untill Mughal emperor Akbar took advantage of civil war in Kashmir. Kashmir was never part of Indian culture and it will never be. Go and see in kashmir with your eyes wide open. Kashmiris look differnet from hindustanis in all respects. A true Kashmiri can not think of calling himself a " Hindustani". that means Kashmir is a separate entity from India.
