Dear Sanket,

If you are suggesting that since a university could not be setup in Dhaka, hence there was a demand for Pakistan, if we are to take this logic, we dont have universities (or lets say resources, basic needs) in many parts of India even today. Should we all demand separate nations ? And even we all get, will that solve all our problems.

 I was fortunate to be with Sr SudarshanJi for an entire day in Baroda when he visited the city in 1986. He is a learned intellectual and a great orator with unprecedented fluency in many languages. He is a disciplinarian and I suppose never said or did anything just to please others. I was to see him off that night by Rajdhani express. I offered him the Amul milk from the station which is very famous. He said I can please you by accepting your offer but I will have to face the problem all through the night. I liked his statement. To just please others we eat and do lots of things even when we are not hungry or like to do them. Most of the Pracharaks of RSS are self less workers and patriots to the core. We should be fortunate to have such a system like RSS which is swayam sewak not the hollow voluntary or NGO type.

Dear Mahesh,

" Pakistan was created because Britain and US wanted to have a post against Soviet Union in this part of the world and it was helped by Muslim League and basically Jinnah's ambition to be the ruler. In a hindu dominated majority country, it might not have been possble and thus he demanded a separate state."

 Really? Hindu leaders were all angels bereft of any ambition to weild power at any level.  I can cite how they treated the Muslims in Easter Bengal, later East Pakistan and now  Bangladesh. The British wanted to set up a University at Dhaka, following revocation of partition of Bengal in 1912. The leading educationists and political leaders jumped to oppose it and succeeded in throttling the scheme for long ten years. Finally Dhaka University was founded in 1921.

Want to know the names of some of the great educationits and political leaders?  Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, who was then Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University and Sir Surendra Nath  Banerjea, dismissed from ICS, a  political leader  Bengalis considered as Rashtraguru, i. e., father of Indian nationalism. These two were/are held in highest esteem and are considered unrivaled in their respective fields. If anybody question their wisdom or vicious action, he is  pilloried.

Dear Sanket,

As per you the book "We and nationhood defined" was written in 1938. Whereas the concept of a different geological area for muslims came about in 1930. It was made by Sir Muhammad Iqbal of Muslim Leage. The nation "pakistan" was demanded by Chaudhary Rahmat Ali in 1933.  Then Jinnah raised it in 1940's Muslim Leagues Lahore session.

To say that Pakistan was demanded on the basis of a book written by Shri Golwalkar is too far fethched an idea.

Pakistan was created because Britain and US wanted to have a post against Soviet Union in this part of the world and it was helped by Muslim League and basically Jinnah's ambition to be the ruler. In a hindu dominated majority country, it might not have been possble and thus he demanded a separate state.

It has nothing to do with a book or what is written in that.

Although I disagreed with much of what Sudarshan said, he made a good gesture last month trying to enter a mosque in Bhopal to offer Eid prayers. His security guards talked him out of his project.

R.I.P.