{"id":627,"date":"2009-10-03T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T10:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-10-03T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T10:31:42","slug":"indias-shameful-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/indias-shameful-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s shameful Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy that left 1 million dead and 10 million displaced from their ancestral homes. The partition of India.The folowing comment from Abdul Munim is such resonance on the day we are remembering Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi :<br \/>\nI am a Muslim for 1400 years&#8230;.<br \/>\nA Punjabi for 2500 years&#8230;<br \/>\nA Pakistani only for 55 years&#8230;<br \/>\nBUT<br \/>\nI am an Indian since last 3300 years&#8230;<br \/>\nWhere should my loyalties lie?<br \/>\nWith Islam?Punjab?PAKISTAN? Or INDIA?<br \/>\nPartition is India&#8217;s legacy of shame, a wound that never heals, an event so scarring that it will never truly be removed until every Hindu and Muslim accepts it as a &#8220;COLLECTIVE FAILURE&#8221; and a &#8220;COLLECTIVE SHAME&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy that left 1 million dead and 10 million displaced from their ancestral homes. The partition of India.The folowing comment from Abdul Munim is such resonance on the day we are remembering Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : I am a Muslim for 1400 years&#8230;. 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