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 The year was 1947 and India was on the verge of independence. But freedom would not come to one nation, but two: India was to be divided into two and a separate nation for muslims called Pakistan was to be formed out of it. Mahatma Gandhi had vehemently opposed it.He could not bear to see his country getting dismembered in the basis of religion. All his life he had laboured to bring about a realisation of unity among different religions among his country men. In fact his life’s calling was    not so much political as much it was social. The unity he saw in Sermon of mount in the book of john in Bible and the bhagwad geeta and the in leo tolstoy’s works ,he wanted to spread it among the vast majority of poor illiterate and hungry Indians. So when it was apparent that India and Pakistan would be formed and hindus and muslims instead of living in peace were fighting each other Gandhi didn’t find any reason to celebrate the independence. He famously and wryly remarke...

The   year was 1947 and India was on the verge of independence. But freedom would not come to one nation, but two: India was to be divided into two and a separate nation for muslims called Pakistan was to be formed out of it. Mahatma Gandhi had vehemently opposed it.He could not bear to see his country getting dismembered in the basis of religion. All his life he had laboured to bring about a realisation of unity among different religions among his country men. In fact his life’s calling was    not so much political as much it was social. The unity he saw in Sermon of mount in the book of john in Bible and the bhagwad geeta and the in leo tolstoy’s works ,he wanted to spread it among the vast majority of poor illiterate and hungry Indians. So when it was apparent that India and Pakistan would be formed and hindus and muslims instead of living in peace were fighting each other Gandhi didn’t find any reason to celebrate the independence. He famously and wryly remar...