On Tuesday 18 Jan 2011 1:08:44 am Bharath Chari wrote: > On Saturday 15 January 2011 07:53 AM, ss wrote: > > On Saturday 15 Jan 2011 2:49:36 am Jon Cox wrote: > > > > Pakistan too is an example of a group of people using Islam to change the > > sacrosanct borders of nation states. > > > > shiv > > <delurk> > > > I notice that you refuse/omit to preface a lot of your posts about > Pakistan/Islam with "I think"/"I believe". Sacrosanct? Borders? Nation > States? Somehow, implicit in (now over a decade) your arguments, is that > _India_, as a concept, has existed far longer than evidence/history > warrants. > > Bharath > </delurk> >
Well Bharath - I am quoting the entire exchange because it is your prerogative to reach any conclusion that you want about "what_you_think_I_mean" over and above what I have actually written. It is 1) Not possible to explain myself exactly on a medium such as this 2) Unlikely to be clear even by repeating the thousands of words I have written You are starting a new topic (or restarting an old one) and I am not going to be pulled into that now except for asking you a question: This is what you said: > _India_, as a concept, has existed far longer than evidence/history > warrants. What do you mean by "India as a concept"? A concept can be a very subjective thing based on individual perceptions and experiences. So unless we first sort of what the hell the "concept of India" (like the "idea of Pakistan") means - we will have no basis for any discussion beyond ambling rhetoric. shiv
