2. Partition was in the folly of greed and hurry and a geopolitical imperative of the departing colonists who cashed in on the theological principle of cultural exclusiveness of the Muslims to truncate the landmass of India for perpetual conflict to persist in the region and the consequent debility of awakened India. Now the fruits are being reaped as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has 'matured' into becoming the hub of global terrorism and the flash-point of nuclear disequilibrium for the sub-continent. It remains to be seen how this artificially created State continues to survive and when it eventually disintegrates, how it will be reabsorbed into mainland India to lend her her historical wholeness. Bangladesh will also be likewise absorbed in the fullness of time and India will rise as a premier spiritual civilisation as of yore, undivided, integrated, whole.
3. The virtual world has consumed our interests and we are now far removed from the real issues of life prime among which and the most fundamental is the solving of what has been called 'the riddle of existence'.
4. A handful of Britishers kicked us because we were slaves and hated each other. And a handful of evil businessmen and politicians continue to kick us because we are slaves still to our littleness, our petty personal interests and prejudices, our meanness that is mountain-high and which we dare not scale to see what lies beyond the summit. We ought not to claim independence any more than we have given it to each other and, thus, we lie prostrate, a people severed from its hoary heritage, full of irreverence and ill-feeling towards each other, a nation full of slaves. Is this dharma? Is the civilisation of the land we belong to and are we the legatees of its culture in the truest sense?
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