Excellent!!!! very well said.....we have to accept the present and move on.
You are right. No point in reflecting on the past now.
The fact now is that we are completely different people and completely different countries. No one wants a return to the past.
Let's look to the future and give our poor people the opportunities they deserve. For an average Indian, Pakistan just doesn't matter (not saying in a negative way, it is just a country we want nothing to do with) and I hope the same be true for Pakistan regarding India.
The partition was done for a reason and it is a fact now irrespective of the merit of the reason or the decision. The obvious corollary says we need to leave each other alone.
For some reasons still unknown and hotly debated today, Indian Congress along with British Raj agreed Muslim League's unreasonable demands for partition
I am no fan of Congress (or the British) but don't you think their hands were forced by the threat (and actual use) of violence by the Muslim league? The direct action day and so on?
Once the majority of Muslims decided to back the league, it was probably the right decision though I hope it had been handled better and by avoiding any violence, bloodshed and even bitterness as much as possible.
even though millions of Muslims were still going to be remained inside new Indian borders after the partition with even greater Hindu majority.
This part should have been thought through better. Once the decision to partition along communal lines was taken, the next logical step would have been peaceful exchange of communities. This was one of the biggest follies and the fact is that no one in the Muslim league ever thought about how they will deal with these issues or run Pakistan once they brought it into being.
There are some books by Pakistani authors who make this lack of any thought on Jinnah's part very clear. Even the top rung of league leadership had no idea what Pakistan was supposed to mean and how it was supposed to be run. They all left it to Mr. Jinnah.
Thus Muslim Indian leaders by their own hands divided one huge Muslim Indian minority into three small pieces: West Pakistan (current Pakistan), East Pakistan (which later became Bangladesh) and Kashmir (later occupied by both Pakistan and India).
Law of unintended consequences? Or may be no one ever thought of these
minor issues.