The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday March 6th, 2023
Why Muslims under the British Raj chose Pakistan and not ‘Akhand’ Bharat? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The idea of ‘Akhand’ (Undivided) Bharat (India) originated with Chanakya who is credited for writing the masterpiece Arthashastra, an ancient IndianSanskrit treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy. At the time, the 3rd century BCE, the Indian subcontinent, which covered what are now the modern-day nations of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, (parts of) Burma (Myanmar), Tibet (now part of China), Bhutan and Bangladesh, was divided into many independent kingdoms. Chanakya articulated the idea of an Akhand Bharat or an undivided India under one authority, rule and administration. To a great extent, he was successful. He discovered Chandragupta Maurya, powered him to throne and then through war, wit and alliances was able to integrate large portions of India under a single rule. Although the southern India and many inner localities could not all be brought under a single suzerain, what he was able to is close to giving the shape to that idea of an Akhand Bharat in the ancient world. Fractures, however, appeared after the fall of Chandragupta Maurya. These were temporarily plastered over by Ashoka as king, and much later by the Mughals (1526-1757) and the Brits (1857-1947).
The idea of Akhand Bharat is an absurd idea in our time. Nonetheless, this silly idea has had some proponents since the third quarter of the 19th century who injected that the basis of Indian nationalism should be the Hindu religion. It was an alien idea to the minority Muslims of the British Raj.
The Aligarh Movement played a great role in the growth of Muslim national consciousness, which witnessed and understood the utter falsity and absurdity of the Hindu nationalistic claim of Akhand Bharat orone Indian nation.
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Wasted #poem *& #painting by Amir Khatib
“Wasted my whole life,
I hate the clock and can’t bear to hear its ticking.
so he disrupted it,
Or disembowel it…
With this my life wasted!
I searched for it between my fingers,
Under my fingernails ink soot,
in the bookshelves,
obsolete words and common verbs,
in the chaos of lines and colours,
in my pockets full of keys,
under the pillow, another pillow,
In the collective mirror lives I don’t know,
perhaps hanging on the peg under my broad hat,
fell from me on the coast,
Or am I forgotten in the grass,
Perhaps it was stolen by crows while it was digging up the field!”
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Ghostin’ #59 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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