You Missed That Train
“Partition was a decision. India is a reality.” After reading the back-and-forth over Sharjeel Imam’s piece in The Quint, what I found most revealing was that his sympathisers and co-religionists seemed more interested in doxxing an author of a balanced, nuanced counterpoint in The Print, than in addressing his arguments. Who is he, and how dare he? was all they could splutter. There was also a rather pathetic attempt to close down debate, with a smirk that only those with a certain degree of intellectual depth could understand the calibre of Sharjeel Imam’s argument. That cunning obfuscation makes it all the more imperative to state this here and now. We will not allow you to conveniently forget - the moment of 1947 is gone. Gone. Gone. When the Indian Muslim asked himself and us, Do we fit in? Can we fit in? Should we fit in? Th...
