New Delhi, April 27 2025 (ANI): At an event in Indian International Centre, Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said, " Many people almost prevented partition, but it happened because there were differences in value systems...Partition happened, and till today, we are living with the consequences of that partition. Is this how we should be leaving? Are not the unresolved questions of partition reflected in the terrible tragedy that was enacted near Pahalgam on 22nd April?"
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00:00Is not the unresolved questions of partition reflected in the terrible tragedy that was enacted near Pahlgaam on the 22nd of April?
00:15There are some fathers who never die. And when I read this book by Praveen, it seems to me that his father has been reincarnated in Praveen Dawa.
00:32I did not know his father, but I have known Praveen for the better part of three to four decades. And if the real message of Dr. Dawa's life was not that he almost prevented partition,
00:53I think many people almost prevented partition. But partition happened. And partition happened because there were differences in value systems
01:12and assessments of the nature of India's nationhood and its civilizational inheritance between people like Gandhi, I would say, and Pandit Nehru,
01:32and Praveen Dawa's father, and Jinnah, and many other Muslims who did not agree with Mr. Jinnah.
01:46But the fact is that partition happened. And till today, we are living with the consequences of that partition.
01:58Is this how we should be living? Is not the unresolved questions of partition reflected in the terrible tragedy that was enacted near Pahlgaam on the 22nd of April?