Reply to "Why I won’t celebrate India’s independence"

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah was neither the only character, nor the main one, to be blamed for the dismemberment of India. Jinnah got the idea of a separate country for Muslims from a man named Muhammad Iqbal, an Indian lawyer and intellectual. The British colonial government, not caring a drop of parrot's piss about the future of an independent India, used its immense power to grant Jinnah and Iqbal their wishes. Britain's King George V knighted the latter, making him Sir Muhammad Iqbal. He was a loyal Englishman's stooge.

Having said that, Indians in the homeland and the diaspora have every right and reason to celebrate India's 70th Independence Anniversary. Their grandparents, great grandparents and forefathers shed tankfuls of blood, and withstood beatings and imprisonment and privation for Independence.

Gilbakka is lending his solidarity to Indians and wishes them a happy anniversary on August 15. JAI HIND!

8/10/175:48 PM

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