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Peaceful protest vs armed seige of the holy temple! huge difference.
point noted
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Well Muslim league of Pakistan is the same muslim league with its leader heading Pakistan in its initial days. Its like saying that the current congress is not the same congress which existed in undivided india s the party lost a lot of its territory. Lot and lot of muslims were and still are part of congress leadership.
BJP was not even in equation until very late, it was founded decades after the independence. Muslims are part of it because in Indian laws a religion based party is illegal. So its wrong to call BJP a hindu party technically.
Rest what you said is same thing i said in my post.
I am surprised that you didnt know Bhagat Singh was an atheist. He was a known atheist and he was very outspoken about it. He didnt even fight for punjabiyat, he only fought for his motherland.
His differences with Gandhi ji increased as he chose a path of violence and Gandhi ji was a non violent man. Still Bhagat singh respected and listened to Gandhi ji till his death. The granades he lobbed in parliament were non lethal and killed no one, his take on it was he wanted to wake up the nation against the atrocities of British.
Bahro so sunane ke liye dhamako ki jaroorat hoti hai -- Bhagat sigh during his trial.
Subash Chandra bose didnt believe in millitant type resistance, instead he formed an full fledged army and wanted to win the independence in which he failed though.
Tum mujhe khoon do, me tumhe azaadi doonga. - thats his famous phrase.
All India Muslim League's main purpose was to create Pakistan... for the muslims of Indian Subcontinent. That why is when the country was formed although the Muslim league was there but many of leaders joined/formed other parties as well. So saying that the Muslim League is the same as it was from pre-partition days can be considered as bit of exaggeration.
As a Matter of fact, Muslim League even lost elections of 1938 to congress... they only thing which made muslim league popular is its demand for a separate country...once that target was achieved...then the same leader made different parities...
I red about him being atheist and frankly speaking it is little hard for me to digest if the person calling himself an atheist ( consider it one of my silly thoughts), such strong personality and atheist... i don't think so... although reality to this day is what you said.
The Grenade thing didn't got him hanged...anyway... he used to respect Mr. Gandhi alot, no doubt about it...
Subash Chandra Bose if you ask me is a confused personality... his path was not going to get him any independence but yes the Masters of India might have been replaced by Germans or Japanese as he aligned with both at different time to win military support to defeat English Army... had he succeeded we may have been having this conversation in German or Japanese...
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How about teach the kids the facts as they are....without portraying the Singhs as heroes or villains.
There is nothing called "fact" in writing (specially when it comes to war/history), every writer will have a personal bias/influence on the script.