Ayesha Jalal in conversation at the Jaipur Literature Festival at diggi palace in Jaiour. Photo Rohit Jain Paras
“The pity of partition was not that the country had been divided into two, Independent India and Independent Pakistan; but it was that people had become slaves to bigotry...
In the same sentence you say Dravidian is a language then you say it is people. Make up your mind about what it is first. It was never an ethnicity. Not only a little Indo-Aryan genes exist a lot of it exists.
Ancient Indians described themselves as white, where? Do you have any proof for what you have written? In India a skin color similar to gold is desired not white. Why do you people steal Indians words like 'aryans' etc to compensate for your white inferiority complex? Can't you be satisfied with...
Pakistan didn't exist before 1974. Present day Pakistanis are from invaders, there is no such thing as Dravidians and present day Indians are the real Indo-Aryans.