While it is imperative for India's well-being that we seek a peaceful resolution of our long-standing conflict with Pakistan without resort to war, it is equally important that we do not make peace with the ideology that created Pakistan through India's bloody partition in 1947. That would mean accepting the perverse notion that Hindus and Muslims cannot coexist peacefully within the same nation and society. Pakistan can afford to hold tight to that destructive ideology because it allowed a near-total ethnic cleansing of Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities at the time of partition. But Mahatma Gandhi and his colleagues had the good sense to avoid making India a mirror image of Pakistani state and society.
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