Prashanth Randadath

“ഭരണിപ്പാട്ട് പാടരുത് എന്നുണ്ടത്രെ. കൊടുങ്ങല്ലൂരമ്മയെ നിരോധിക്കാൻ ധൈര്യണ്ടോ സർക്കാരിന്?”
― V.K.N., Podipooram Thirunal

“Many of the politicians in Delhi and Karachi, too, had once fought together against the British; they had social and family ties going back decades. They did not intend to militarize the border between them with pillboxes and rolls of barbed wire. They laughed at the suggestion that Punjabi farmers might one day need visas to cross from one end of the province to the other. Pakistan would be a secular, not an Islamic, state, its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, promised: Hindus and Sikhs would be free to practice their faiths and would be treated equally under the law. India would be better off without two disgruntled corners of the subcontinent, its people were told, less”
― Nisid Hajari, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Ultimately, it is not possible to assign blame entirely to one side or the other. What exploded so suddenly in Calcutta in August 1946 were the pent-up fears of communities convinced that they faced imminent subjugation by the other.”
― Nisid Hajari, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition