Justice Markandey Katju-
(Justice Katju is a former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman, Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own)
Pakistan is a fake, artificial country created on the basis of the bogus two-nation theory (that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations) by that British swindle called The Partition of 1947.
What is Pakistan? It is Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). These were all part of India since Mughal times.
We are one nation, we share the same culture, look like each other, speak the same language Hindustani (in large areas), and are bound to reunite under a secular government led by modern-minded leaders determined to rapidly industrialize the country and make it prosperous, abolishing poverty, malnutrition, unemployment, lack of proper healthcare and good education, casteism, communalism and other social evils.
Unless we reunite, we will never attain this objective, for we will keep wasting our energies and resources on mutual hostility.
The Indian Reunification Association ( IRA ) has been formed with this objective, and it will play a historical role. Its chairman is Indervansh Chadha, a Sikh based in Jalandhar (harindrealtors@gmail.com ) and its general secretary is Irfan Pullani from Kerala (pullaniirfan@gmail.com).
This humble self (justicekatju@gmail.com) is its patron.
Units of IRA have been set up in many states and universities. Many people ask how will this objective of reunification be achieved.
Our answer is that we have to first widely disseminate the idea of reunification. This will take a lot of time and a lot of patience, since powerful vested interests have injected the poison of communalism since British rule in India, and it will take many years for the antidotes to have effect and get our body politic rid of the venom.
However, since our idea is based on the truth (that India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are really one nation), it will gradually be accepted by most people, just as the heliocentric theory of Copernicus (that the earth goes around the sun), initially met with a lot of opposition by most people in Europe, who believed in the Biblical geocentric theory (that the earth was the centre of the Universe, and the sun revolves around it), but eventually was accepted by all, as it represented the truth.
When this idea is widespread, as it is bound to become, as it stands for truth, people will use their creativity and find out ways and means how to achieve peaceful reunification.
Some people said that the idea of reunification is a pipe dream. But when Mazzini spoke of Italian unification he too was called a dreamer, but the dream subsequently became a reality due to Cavour and Garibaldi. West and East Germany were reunited after 45 years partition. Vietnam was united in 1975.
The great French writer Victor Hugo said, “There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
Indian reunification is an idea whose time has come.
