Re: ‘Indian air force a third of China’s’
Med911 - the one thing that is constant is change. I don't think we should use past as anything more than for selective learning. For example emporer Ashoka gave up brutal warfare after surveying the battlefield with the blood and gore, even though he won. Does that mean we cannot just take the "don't fight wars" part without first fighting a gore battle?
If your point is that Indians should not want to rejoin Pakistan with India that's fine. If your point however is Indians shouldn't feel a sense of loss about separation of Pakistan, how do you go about telling people how they should 'feel'? I personally think partition made both sides weak but it's done we move on.
Both people and the lands predate nations, so it is kind of pointless to try and recreate any past associations between the two in the name of nations since there will always be a time further back where that border was not true.