Indian government "retranslates" Iqbal's poety to make it more pro-India

Re: Indian government "retranslates" Iqbal's poety to make it more pro-India

Hind is an Arabicized derivation from the word "Indus." The term traditionally refers to the Indus valley and the lands to the east of it...basically the Indian subcontinent. Iqbal wrote the poem in 1932, so it's pretty silly to think that he was referring to the modern day nation-state of India (especially given the fact that he was the ideological father of the Pakistan movement).

In any case, none of this changes the ridiculousness of the billboard...poor Iqbal would turn in his grave if he knew his words were being twisted to encourage Indian imperialism in his beloved Kashmir.