The man who ordered the blowing up of the INA Memorial at Singapore was himself blown off by the IRA. The man who oversaw the bloody Partition of India had to pay the price of all of its subsequent horrors in a cruel twist of destiny at quite another front. In the evening of his life, in the twilit hours of his passage to the other world, Lord Louis Mountbatten had to make his karmic balance alright before he could leave the shores of this world. The cry of a million souls, torn and tormented, ravaged and raped, pillaged and plundered, despoiled and desecrated, sought vengeance across the pages of history. Was he responsible for it all, even in part? That is for historians to objectively analyse, for philosophers to deliberate, but the price is paid by individuals and by the masses who are the scapegoats of history. Or, perhaps not. There must be higher computations, finer calculations in the arithmetic of karma where destinies are dealt with amidst the soft murmurings of daily labour and the cataclysms of revolution. It is all a haze but suffices it to remember that the law of karma is inexorable and must visit each one, be it a Jinnah or a Churchill or a Stalin or whosoever it be. There hangs the sword of work, the karmic reward and the karmic retribution which none can escape. History will be avenged, hang on.
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