: Modi should learn from Nehru how to remember the trauma of the Partition #IndiaNEWS Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at it again. He has mastered the art of manufacturing controversy.His goal is a simple

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Modi should learn from Nehru how to remember the trauma of the Partition #IndiaNEWS
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at it again. He has mastered the art of manufacturing controversy.His goal is a simple one. Fan Hindutva passions at regular intervals so that people stay distracted and do not start asking uncomfortable questions about rising prices, runaway unemployment, or the country’s foreign policy reverses.Even larger concerns relating to centre-state relations or citizens’ right to privacy in the face of the Pegasus spyware threats also get marginalised.The latest on Modi’s display board is his decision to declare August 14 as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day. Remember that August 14 is Pakistan’s Independence Day. It is hardly desirable for two neighbours to mourn and celebrate on the same day.Speaking from a narrow diplomatic perspective, it ensures that India cannot even send a congratulatory message to Pakistan on that day. Pakistan may be India’s enemy number one today, but it is not impossible that someday their relations will normalise, a common enough happening in international relations.Delivering his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of Delhi’s historic Red Fort, Prime Minister Modi declared:My dear countrymen, while we celebrate our freedom today, we cannot forget the pain of Partition that still pierces through the hearts of all Indians. This has been one of the biggest tragedies...Read more

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