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Partition, Indo-Pak Relations and Kashmir is a book that says,
the only solution to the Kashmir imbroglio can be and has
to be peaceful. Looking at the issue in the context of the
subcontinent’s partition, it notes how Indo-Pak relations are
held hostage to Kashmir and the vice-versa.
The book says, in the 21st century, the process of secularisation
has remained incomplete in India, Pakistan (and Bangladesh)
and fundamentalism and communalism are rampant in all of
these nations.
The first major war between these uncomfortable neighbours
took place on the issue of Kashmir, resulting in one third of
Kashmir becoming ‘Azad Kashmir’ in the military-mullah
ruled Pakistan, with lakhs of soldiers breathing down the
neck of Kashmiri civilians in democratic India.
Dwelling on this unhappy situation, the book also talks of one
remarkable nonagenarian communist from Kerala, BM Kutty,
who has made Karachi his home for the last 70 years; how
Indo-Pak cricket matches are seen more as India-Pakistan
war; how legendary film star Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan), and
the modern ones like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan are
humiliated time and time just because of their religion. Thebook
sets its readers thinking.
ISBN - 9789382711766
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