Kapil Komireddi's butchery of history on Jinnah
From the Blog pakteahouse By Yasser Latif Hamdani So complete have been the state sponsored mythologies in the subcontinent that both Indians and Pakistanis are incapable of looking at the past objectively or with any kind of intellectual ability. Consider for example jingoistic Indian columnist Kapil Komireddi's piece for Daily Beast titled "Pakistan's Mohammad Ali Jinnah is not Mandela". As if Jinnah would care he would be compared to Mandela. Nelson Mandela is no doubt a great leader of our times and did a lot for his country and his people but the comparison is not an apt one. Behind Mandela were a people united against racial tyranny and Mandela"s own role while substantial was not central to the future of his people. Mandela was not handicapped by demands of religious orthodoxy and by divergenpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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