Comrade Joseph Stalin

It’s not all Muslims But it’s almost always Muslims

غرقت غزة مجددا اليوم ! كيف لخيمة من نايلون أن تواجه ريحا ومطرا؟! من يُقنع العالم أننا في غزة نسكن العراء لا الخيام، فالخيمة هو العراء بعينه.. وصمتكم هو الخذلان بعينه

Having interacted with many Paksitanis, I can understand why liberals react the way they do to Dhurandhar. Most Pakistanis one meets in Europe, UAE, USA are pleasant and smart - if not in the broader context of friendship, at least in the narrower context of business. They are educated, suave, well travelled. They represent the top layer of Pakistani society - and this is what most Indians would come in contact with. Dhurandhar shows the other end , the bottom of the barrel Lyari gangs. No Indian liberal has met a Rehman Dakait, Kasab or a Maj.Iqbal and lived to tell the tale. Their atomized lived experience doesn't match the documented harsh reality of terrorism and crime. Instead of concluding their mental map is wrong, they conclude the terrain doesn't exist. A fatal error. The second reason is they confuse individual relationships with geopolitical ones. An Indian and a Pakistani can be friends, of course. Even Indo Pak couples aren't as uncommon as one imagines. To believe that this will somehow pave way for friendship between the two nations is naive. To think that the potential friendship would be detailed by movies but not cross border terrorist attacks is stupidity typical of an Indian liberal. India and Pakistan are not just two different nations - they represent two different civilizations and world views. Never the twain shall meet. The best one can hope for at national level is a tense detente and eternal vigilance. Like a divorced couple minding their own business, instead of fighting. Sadly, even that is incorrigible optimism.