On 8/23/07, shiv sastry wrote: > > On Thursday 23 Aug 2007 6:21 am, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > > Wouldn't any Indian author asked to write on Pakistan at 60 tend to > compare > > Pakistan with his own country? > > No IG. Not necessarily. At least, I don't think so. > > shiv
I think it would be quite impossible not to make a comparison, since the very creation of pakistan is tied to the partition, so there was a tangible before (part of a bigger entity), and an after (as an independent state).... If you were going to write Bosnia, it would be quite natural to compare it with Yugoslavia of which it was a part of as a different nation... I wonder if you have seen the Jinnah biopic movie (with christoper "count dracula" lee as Jinnah.....) ? While the Gandhi film essentially focuses on Gandhi vs the British, the Jinnah film is about a freedom movement where the struggle is on two fronts.... one against the british, and one for fighting for a new islamic homeland.....
