Prejudice and Pride

No! I haven’t written it wrong. It’s not Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, its Prejudice and Pride by Krishan Kumar. I read a couple of its pages three years back and got interested. I bought this book from last Delhi Book Fair and now I’m in the midst of it. I pondered over the issues that he raised while reading about the Mumbai attacks in newspapers. I can easily sense the hatred towards India, nurtured in the young and impressionable minds of these terrorists. India and Pakistan share a common history yet we are a different people or perhaps it’s just a perception that has been cultivated through constant feeds of hate for each other in the young minds of children in schools. Krishan Kumar in his book, Prejuduce and Pride, tried to analyse the two different perspectives of history, i.e., the Indian perspective and the Pakistani perspective. I’m still reading the book and wondering what the historical events were like. Are they reported as they had happened or are they some historian’s perspective? I’m still wondering…