The relationship between Southasia and China has necessarily to be seen through the prism of the relationship between India and China.
Me Lord
We really don't need such a season,
That keeps converting dreams of commons –
Into common cemeteries.
Close to noon, while I grope for colours to paint my Bangladesh, I look at a daily that habitually sells well with Boschian human deformities and negative news, and I
Wind –
Even when it is not blowing, it blows
Who can lash down the wind?
– Ramesh Prajapati in the Hindi poem "Hawa"
The self-realisation of Southasia as a single, cohesive space inhabited by multiple peoples took a beating with the partition of the Subcontinent in 1947. 'Nation state-ism'
The thinker Satish Kumar on the divide between the two lndias – the affluent urbs and the other that is "based on land and livelihood, people and forests".
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