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Can Bollywood heal the India-Pakistan relationship PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Sonya Fatah   
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Make peace, not war.

This is the message that two of the largest publications in India and Pakistan are sending their  countries in recent weeks. Since the start of the new year, the two have engaged in a veritable orgy of peace, using their publications and their television channels to inspire Indo-Pak friendship.

The drama began in early January when readers of India's most widely read English-language daily opened up its morning papers to a full-page advertisement under a bold banner, Love Pakistan. Since then, on the Indian side, the Times of India has dedicated big chunks of space to spreading that message, too.

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Let there be love in South Asia and let it begin with me PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Pritam K. Rohila   
Tuesday, 09 February 2010

February is the month of love. It’s time to give and receive love, and to make peace with people around us.

 

Let us take this opportunity to look beyond ourselves. Let us transcend our limitations and hesitations. Let us take a chance to attempt to live in peace and harmony with our social and natural environment.

 

 

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Indo-Pakistan dosti? PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Raza Rumi   
Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Reclaiming shared cultures could resist the clamping of boundaries and challenge the mutually destructive paths that Indian and Pakistani states have imposed upon us as our destinies:

1947 was not just about India’s Independence, it was an initiator of identities imposed from ‘above’. The new postcolonial states ventured to redefine their status through a mix of jingoism, the rewriting of history and the whipping up of the nation-state mantra – essentially Western in concept and practice. The journey of South Asian people therefore, has been fraught with wars, hysteria and state diktat articulating itself through prejudiced educational curricula and state-sponsored historical half-truths.

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Partition Puzzle: Role of British Policy PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Ram Puniyani   
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Jaswant Singh in his recent book on Jinnah has praised the secular nature of Jinnah and has held Nehru-Patel responsible for Partition of India. Many people from Pakistan are praising Jaswant Singh’s book to the sky, while here in India there is a mixed reaction. Most strong one came from BJP President Rajnath Singh who hinted that any praise of Jinnah, will be met with strict action. The problem with such formulation, Jinnah was secular, Nehru-Patel were responsible for partition, is that it is an extremely superficial analysis and does not look at the complex multilayered phenomenon of partition tragedy. It totally by passes the role of British rulers and the different interests of diverse classes during freedom movement. The response to the book is either at emotive level, our leader versus your leader, or how dare you speak against our icon!

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Indo Pak Leaders PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Aminur Rashid   
Friday, 04 September 2009

Allama Iqbal (the writer of Saare Jahaan se Accha, Hindustaan humaara fame) has nicely put the expectation from people of Hind (Indo pak together), whom he was seeing as leaders of the world..

 Sabaq perh phir sadaqat ka, adalat ka, shujaat ka

Liya jayey ga tujh say kaam duniya ki imamat ka

(Meanings: Sabaq = Lesson; Saqadat = Truth; Adalat = Justice; Shujaat = Bravery; Imamat = Leadership) 

The line also put down, the qualities a world leader should have. 

Forget about leading the world, do we have leaders who can lead their respective countries to progress, peace and prosperity?

Since this website ipfc.info finds its root from the famous Orkut community, IPFC , I will be soon updating the response from members of that community later, to this article in the comment section.

Readers are free to chip in their opinion as well. 

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