Religious politics in South Asia of the Hindu-Muslim variety was nurtured into deep fault lines by colonialism as a protection against another 1857 uprising, writes Jawed Naqvi
WHEN dense smoke was billowing from deadly firings across the line of control on Friday, smartly turned out military columns from 23 countries were paying homage at Moscow鈥檚 Red Square to the 27 million fallen men and women of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who defeated Nazi Germany, captured Berlin and forced Hitler to shoot himself. Had the South Asian neighbours be