“What Obama should have condemned”, Swarajyamag, June 25, 2023:
“When former United States President Barack Obama remarked, ‘If you do not protect the rights of ethnic minorities in India, there is a strong possibility that India, at some point, starts pulling apart’, he only proved that colonialism is deeper than skin colour.
The Balkanization of India is a long-time fantasy of imperialists of every hue. Those of the British colonial variety believed that it was the superiority of the British Raj that held India together. Churchill proclaimed that openly.
Pakistan was, in a way, a realisation of that fantasy.
It was not because of the British rule and nor because of the post-independent Nehruvian rulers that India is still together. It is despite them…..”
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