A "Yes Or No" Question For Modi On Partition https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/a-yes-or-no-question-for-modi-on-partition-by-rajmohan-gandhi-2512950 - by Rajmohan Gandhi August 18, 2021
I ask: "Calling for a 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day', you tweeted, 'Millions of our sisters and brothers were displaced and many lost their lives due to mindless hate and violence.' My question is, are displaced or killed Muslims included in our sisters and brothers?"
And any 'remembrance' that excludes horrors faced by the 'other' side would not only sound hollow, it would trigger fresh rage. On the other hand, a remembrance that takes an honest and complete look at the entirety of the violence of 1946-47 can move us forward. It could even become a step towards reconciliation within India and between the nations of South Asia. Truth and reconciliation go together.
A more direct opinion come from Prakala Prabhakar: Modi Vs Modi 2014-2021 || Midweek Matters 25 || https://youtu.be/2dP-g_AQ7Tw Dr Parakala looks back at all the seven speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2014 until last year, and puts this year's speech against the back drop of his utterances in those. And tries to understand from them the shift that has taken place between 2014 and 2021 in the Modi persona and his political and governance discourse.
Sab ka Prayaas was urged. Is there a subliminal messaging in remember the partition remembrance day?
Why is Modi telling us to remember something we haven't been allowed to forget? https://www.rediff.com/news/column/why-is-modi-telling-us-to-remember-partition/20210817.htm By JYOTI PUNWANI August 17, 2021
Interestingly, August 14 is the day the RSS observes as Akhand Bharat Sankalp Divas.
Its chief Mohan Bhagwat explained his vision of Akhand Bharat in February this year: A country which would include not just India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but also Afghanistan, all 'unite(d) through Sanatan dharma, which is humanity's dharma and of the entire world and today it is called Hindu dharma.'
Basically, this is a vision that wipes out Islam from the sub-continent
Remember the horrors of Partition, but also draw the right lessons from them https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/partition-horrors-remembrance-day-pm-modi-7463480/
Harsh Mander writes: We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people. "when I decided to leave behind my career in the IAS in protest against the Gujarat communal massacre of 2002, to fight for justice and healing with the survivors, many relatives of my extended family were furious, and cancelled me from their lives. One of them said to me loudly during a family wedding, “We are ashamed of you. After all we suffered during Partition, you have crossed to the wrong side”. I replied, “After all our families suffered in Partition, who more than us can understand the suffering of victims of the same hate violence? It is, even more, our duty to stand resolutely with them, against the perpetrators of hate. "
Indians must never forget the torment and horrors of Partition. We must remember so that we never allow hate to partition not just our land, but even more fundamentally, our hearts. We must remember always what the politics of religious hate does to a people.