OpIndia

India reclaiming its legacy is Hindu majoritarianism, Pakistan appropriating its pre-Islamic heritage is maturity: Read how The Wire resorted to mental gymnastics to find Aman ki Asha

Pakistans sudden embrace of the pre-Islamic history of the Indian subcontinent is pretentious, agenda-driven, a tactic of retrofitting facts to appropriate the history of ancient India.One or two pre-partition name changes do not change the fact that Pakistans foundation is still rooted in the Two-Nation Theory that essentially says that Muslims cannot co-exist with Hindus.