Recently I had a discussion with a friend related to Indian partition and Gandhi’s death. The consensus seems there is enough justification for Nathuram Godse’s anger. The percentage of people believe Godse being a martyr is growing from last decade or so, whereas in 1950 only very cult RSS followers believed in Godse argument. But with a string of BJP governments and Hindutva religious spread changed the popularity of the argument. The argument goes like this “ Gandhi could have stopped the partition but he did not stop it as he only wants Nehru to be PM of India. Gandhi/Nehru had a cloud to convince Jinnah and they did not put enough efforts to stop it due to their selfish needs over the country". Gandhi has a magic wand to stop the partition and he did not do it?. But the argument I want to make is it is the people’s choice. They want the partition, plain, and simple. Yes India Had Elections before Independence How many of us know that India has democ
I Recently read an Interesting quote about Time “ Time Does Not Actually Exist. Clocks Exist. Time is just an agreed upon construct. We have taken distance (one rotation of the earth and one orbit of the sun) divided it up into segments. Then given those segments Labels. While it has its uses we have been programmed to live our lives by the construct as if it were real. We have confused our shared construct with something that is tangible and thus has become its slave ” This quote raised so many questions and the more you try to analyze it leads to more questions. What if Time as the universal agreed construct does not exist it is hard to imagine life….. But if you go back around 100 to 200 years ago where clocks are not that easily accessible or accurate as it looks now. They used to be lot more simple clocks as simple as candle clock or shade of the long tower to decide the time of the day. Most of the accuracy is only towards an hour at