--- On Wed, 18/3/09, ss <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: ss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] BW: How Risky Is India?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 18 March, 2009, 7:52 PM
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> 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
Very interesting point of view of someone who is a member of the Punjabi elite
on both sides of the border.
Aatish and Salman have a very tense relationship and Aatish' book about this is
eminently readable:
“Stranger to history: A son’s journey through Islamic lands”.
He got into trouble with his playboy Dad pretty early in the game and it wasn't
much easier later. Salman comes across as a pustule at all stages.
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