Seventy-six years ago, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of a new nation’s tryst with destiny.
But the birth of the independent republic of India was marred by wide-spread violence caused by the decision to partition the subcontinent on religious grounds. It was a half-baked idea imported from Europe – a narrow sense of national identity premised on a misguided sense of nationalism that had already plagued that old continent for a couple of centuries.
