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| | The Hindu : Partition's unresolved business |
 | | Let us skip a great deal of intervening history and come down to British times." The problem is that the intervening history, Narayan chooses to skip produced Amir Khusrau, Shah Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Abdul Qadir Bedil, Vali Deccani (whose tomb was ransacked in Gujarat recently) and above all, Mirza Ghalib. |
 | | Even during and after the British times, from Dr. Mohammed Iqbal to Saadat Hasan Manto, Brij Narain Chakbast, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Krishan Chander, Qurratul Ain Haider, Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri (whose real name was Raghopati Sahai) and Faiz Ahmed Faiz they were all rooted in that intervening history. |
 | | This skipping of a "great deal of intervening history," in Narayan's words, on the one hand and the insistence on that history being the only period of magnificence on the other brought about communal partition of British India, riots at regular intervals and seething intolerance. |
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