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But once you cross all borders of existence
in a materialistically socially limited world
only then you realise
we are simply dust specks
magnified 500 times
as the eye magnifies

from this far off distance
I see
still see you 5 foot 7
and i am a wee bit shorter
in height and stature….
but
we must get out of the realms
of our constraints and imagination
then alone we will have no inhibitions
nor limitations
to know time changes every moment
it is the only constant
and

as per your above statement
I calculated your Time of birth
Sir You are paralleled
all now know
I am also a
devoted follower of you
Thank you
csm

Thanks.
We can not change history. Blaming the British at this stage does not help. The fact is that the most influential sections of our society actively supported the ‘Raj’ and the masses acquiesced. When you look at the numbers, the picture that emerges is astounding. A mere handful of Englishmen were able to rule over more than thirty five crore Indians!

What we need to do is to promote awareness, so that we move forward in the right direction.

With best wishes,
Surjit

A cause of the drifting apart could be that we have industrialised more rapidly, departing from agrarian leanings.

A.Kumar

Let us not forget that it was Britain’s policy of ‘divide and rule’ that led to the partition of the country. Britain wanted it that way. Radcliffe can’t take all the blame. Under the circumstances I think he did a fairly good job in the time at his disposal.

I would suggest you read “Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed” by Ishtiaq Ahmed for a fuller picture.

However, the subject of your blog is different! You have touched a very pertinent point regarding large families across the border specially in their lower strata. That is where they get all their misguided jehadis from as you have rightly pointed out. India must not lose sight of the unrestrained growth in its own Muslim population!

Regards,

Harindar

Thanks.

I am in total agreement with you.

What can be expressed in the mother tongue can only be said in that very special dialect. If translated, it loses some thing. If that was not true, we would be able to translate all our scriptures, and the world would not need so many languages!

I hope we meet some day, so that we can speak a bit of ‘Shahpuri’ dialect!

Surjit

Thank you very much for these mails of yours—-I enjoy going thru them & they are all very interesting read even though I don’t belong to the olive green family myself but my late father was an old soldier—–Maj.Gen. Rustom Zal Kabraji,AVSM,retd.—-He was from the Corps of Signals & one of the 1st Signal officers to command a mountain brigade & then a mountain division–also the 1st. Signaller to be COS of a command—-He retired in 1970 as Chief of Staff Southern Command Pune.

I was very interested & amused when I read your piece on Gen. Hanut——-I had met him one day in the 1960s when I was a young school boy in Mhow where my father was Commandant of what was then the School of Signals.

Gen. Hanut must have been a 2/lt. or a Capt. doing a course at the Infantry School—will tell you more about this meet later.

Keep the mails coming—they bring back some very nostalgic memories of my days during my father’s service in the armed forces–came across some very fine officers & men which will be tough to come across in our modern times !

Warm regards & respects,

Zal Kabraji.

ps–my father passed away in 2008 at the age of 92.

Thanks. It is possible that I have over-stated my case. I am a bit of a story teller, and exaggeration comes naturally to me. As for the per capita income​, Pakistan was always more prosperous than India. They inherited better land and a well developed canal system. But when the agrarian economy turned into manufacturing, India seems to have taken over. The following text is from an independent source:

Till 2006 in nominal basis and till 2008 in ppp basis, per capita income of pakistan was more than India. In 2014, GDP per capita of India is more than Pakistan in both terms. Per capita Income of India is $1627 and $5855 in nominal and ppp terms, respectively. Per capita Income of Pakistan in nominal and ppp terms is $1343 and $4736, respectively. World rank of India is 145 (nominal) and 125 (PPP). World rank of Pakistan is 152 (nominal) and 134 (PPP).Out of 33 Indian states/UTs, 24 states/UTs are richer than Pakistan.

Growth rate of Pakistan is estimated at 4.14% in 2014. India’s growth rate is estimated at 7.17% in 2014. During period 1980-2014, Average GDP growth of Pakistan was 5.02% compare to India’s 6.23% in same period.

Indian rupee was at 1.0288 INR per Pakistani rupee (PKR) on 2 Jan 1996. Value of Pakistani currency has fallen to 0.5221 INR per 1 PKR in 1 Jan 2011. Since 2011, PKR is moving up, and on 1 Dec 2015, 1 PKR = 0.6283 INR.

​It is always a pleasure to hear from you. For one thing, you have no hesitation in disagreeing, and hold your own, always and every time!

Love,

Surjit