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Unification of India

Former RSS spokesperson M.G. Vaidya has wondered why India cannot try unifying when Germany and Vietnam can be united, and the two Koreas can try unifying (Aug. 2). The Germans, the Vietnamese, and the Koreans had the inner urge to come together. The Indian subcontinent is different. We are Indians on this side of the border and they are Pakistanis on the other. We have been taught to suspect, never to trust. Germans were divided by Cold War politics; we were divided by the politics of religion and hate.

P.S. Prasanth,
Thiruvananthapuram

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