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Saturday 18 April 2020

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 109 of 2020

2241hrs:

Back to square 1, which is 1947:

This is Sitaram Yechury General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). 

The pre 1947 partition letter from Maharaja Hari Singh to Mountbatten which Yechury refers to would put the ball firmly in the UK's court, today more than ever.


Furthermore, the following video in Urdu - on a Pakistani channel of all places was a reminder that rather than Jinnah and Iqbal, we would have been much better off taking guidance from Saadat Hasan Manto, without whom the following event would perhaps never have reached us today:


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