By Justice Katju
I have repeatedly said that India and Pakistan are really one country, only temporarily and artificially divided by a British swindle in 1947 on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, so that united India does not emerge as a modern industrial giant like another China, and thus become a big rival to the industries of the developed world. But we are bound to reunite one day under a secular government with modern minded, patriotic leaders determined to transform India into a highly industrialized country, with its people enjoying a high standard of living.
Since India and Pakistan are one country it follows that all Pakistanis are really Indians.
So when an Indian soldier shoots at a Pakistani he is behaving like a fool, because he is really shooting at his own countryman, and similarly when a Pakistani soldier shoots at an Indian, he is behaving like a fool, because he is really shooting at his own countryman.
I was therefore very sad when I learnt from the social media that cross border firing, which had been stopped by an agreement between India and Pakistan in 2021, has resumed, following the Pahalgam incident.
As regards who were responsible for the Pahalgam attack, I have discussed this in the article below :
In my interview to Arifa Muzafar of Toronto, Canada, I have mentioned whom I suspect of being the master minds behind this horrible incident
The master minds are some people of a developed country, sitting like a puppeteer hidden behind a screen, but manipulating the puppets
After the reactions and developments in India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack, and the loud, incessant jingoism going on in our subcontinent, fanned by our crooked politicians and our worthless and largely sold out media, the master minds who planned the attack, and whose agents are our politicians, are laughing at us, regarding us as fools who can easily be taken for a ride.
The truth is that Indians and Pakistanis are not each other’s enemies. We are both poor countries. How can two poor people be each other’s enemies ? Our real enemies are massive poverty, massive unemployment, appalling level of child malnutrition, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, almost total lack of healthcare and good education for the masses, etc.
To combat these massive problems, instead of fighting each other, we should join hands and unite, and launch a mighty historical united,, protracted, people’s struggle under modern minded leaders determined to set up a political and social order under which the country rapidly industrializes, the standard of living of the people steadily rises, and they get decent lives.
It is time now that we stop behaving like a laughing stock of the developed countries, and being taken for a ride by them
The breadth of your perspective is natural because the fundamental essence of Indian thought is alive within you. After independence, those who divided India did so not politically, but by fragmenting the broadness of perspective. Around the early part of the twentieth century, Indian society was fighting against imperialism. Today, global social psychology is increasingly rooted in capitalism, and we are all compelled to move in that direction. I can confidently say that the goodwill present in your perspective is due to Indian values. The broadness of the Indian outlook has always fostered goodwill, and that is why even today, the spirit of positivity remains alive within you.