marcusblanc;248417 wrote:
am i right in thinkin, both nations have nukes :hopeless:… do you think that us brits are partially responsible for the antagonism between these 2 nations.
we divided them up in 48, i think…
unfortunately so…. and thats why them two mateys put a few caps in Mahatma Ghandi as they thought he had made too many compromises with Britain.
The older one got hanged (standard penalty for terrorism in the 50s even post independence) but the younger lad was <17 at the time so just as in Britain was given clemency and did a life sentence.
I remember a few years back (2001/02?) it was the time when he was up for parole and if he had said something conciliatory they would have probably let him go, but he said from his prison cell “I still hate that bastard Ghandi, if I could turn the clock back I’d shoot the bastard again!”
I think the last Ghandi family member gave up politics in the mid 2000s for the sake of her two daughters and kept her head down. This was probably a very wise thing to do.
Also it is a big fallacy that Asians are passive/quiet/inscrutable – they can obviously work well as a team as has been proved in business worldwide, but they can be deeply passionate and stubborn [not unlike East Anglians] . If it weren’t for the strong goverments/family/social culture in those nations the whole fucking continent would be ablaze.
