[garinda]

Although I knew when India gained independence, and it's partition, the programmes to mark it's sixtieth anniversary have been very interesting.

I think it's much more complicated than just blaming the British. There were already deep-rooted prejudices before the British even arrived there in the seventeenth century. Wherever there was a minority in a city or a state, be it Muslim, Sikh, or Hindu, there was cruelty and intolerance. Add to that Princely feudalism, together with a caste system, and it makes the Irish question look simple in comparisson.

Ten minutes ago I finished rewatching Ghandi. Hollywood schmatlz it may have been, but one good man's disappointment at mankinds inability to live together in a united India, was very poignant and sad, and it seems no lessons have been learned judging by the world today.