On Thursday 18 Dec 2008 10:10:32 pm ss wrote: > On Thursday 18 Dec 2008 5:45:57 pm lukhman_khan wrote: > > I don't understand why a dismembered pakistan is in any way a threat > > to us? > > > India's success is Pakistan's failure. India has to fail for Pakistan to > succeed.
> shiv Here is more about India's success being Pakistan's failure Indian journalist Tavleen Singh had a love child with the man who is Pakistani Punjab's (Pakjab) chief minister Salman Taseer. The son is Aatish Taseer and he is a writer. He has been interviewed in Outlook Magazine and here are a few quotes. 'Very Difficult To Be Both Indian And Pakistani http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20090323&fname=Aatish+Taseer+(F)&sid=3 Quote 1 > It was a twin experience. It was familiar and it was unfamiliar. It was > always to be a stranger and not. The reason for this is, India as a culture > and civilisation runs through Pakistan in every way, in ways they don’t > even know. They are often talking about caste, they don’t know it…But it is > not something for them to celebrate, it is something for them to reject, to > feel embarrassed about, it undermines their mission for what Pakistan was > meant to be. I was Indian on one level, but there was also a part of me > that had a deep attachment to Pakistan. And so, the distancing and > alienation I felt because of the rejection of India was always upsetting. > Hindus being cowardly, rejecting the Hindu classical past, certain ideas > about how Indians look, all those things were probably more offensive to > me, maybe someone else could have taken them with a pinch of salt. It was > upsetting because it made it very difficult to be both Indian and > Pakistani. Quote 2: > The rejection of India was not a post- 9/11, it is a deep thing, it is > there in Iqbal.. it is a deep intellectual basis for Pakistan. But > certainly, they were doing much better in the past, were richer, had better > roads.. Certainly, for my father it was a big shock to see India suddenly, > sometimes falsely, being positioned as this rising superpower. In the last > 10 or 15 years, the depressing news about Pakistan was very upsetting to > Pakistanis. And they all had fresh experiences of being treated very > differently in the west, of insulting things said about Pakistan. > More than economic rise, it has been the cultural rise that blows them > away. They have a view of India in their house everyday with Bollywood. > They used to have lots of small complexes, our women are prettier, and > suddenly you have these Maharashtrian beauties coming out of the woodwork. > India’s soft power is shocking to them. shiv
