Who could have imagined that after thirteen centuries (1323 years to be exact) another Karbla would be enacted at that very place in Iraq? I have paid my homage to Imam Hussain every year ever since my friend Syed Fatah Hussain Shah Kazmi started organising Hussain day in Jammu.
I had often reminded my audience the continued relevance of the martyrdom of 72 warriors of peace at the hands of Yazid.
For Yazids have continued to re-emerge in one form or another and at one place or another.
Midstream By Mohinder Singh Secularists in Retreat Fifty years back secularists rode high.
Their star leader Nehru swore by secularism—and socialism.
Looking back today, with the rising religious ingress into politics, the secular stand taken in framing the Constitution strikes as surprising.
Here was a country racked by communal riots that forced a division on religious grounds, followed by horrendous religious bloodbaths.
Indeed, the thirties and forties saw a surfeit of religious posturing in politics.
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