The Jinnah effect

The book about Jinnah written by Jaswant Singh has created quite a stir and my curious probing mind at once activated itself in an attempt to understand the reason behind this.Well, lets get the facts straight first.Mr Singh wrote a book on Jinnah and got himself expelled from the BJP party.Supposedly he spent four and half years writing this book.According to him Nehru and Sardar Patel conceded Pakistan to Jinnah.In the controversial book he has persistently glorified Jinnah,calling him a secular person while critiscising Nehru and Patel.Apparently his opinions on the ghosts of history did not find favour with the whole party.However his expulsion from the party exposed the weak and repressive face of the BJP party.Nothing less than this could be expected from a hindu fundamentalist party,headed by Narendra Modi-who played an integral role in the Gujarat communal riots of 2002.
I am too much of a layman to analyze the cause behind writing this controversial book,but I can see it has generated quite a lot of publicity.And inspite of my limited knowledge about this world and politics I can guarantee one thing-publicity,whether good or bad is certainly beneficial.His narrow minded party may have expelled him but he earned a lot of accolades from Pakistan.A lot of eminent personalities have applauded him for displaying "intellectual honesty and academic integrity".
This move by the BJP party has weakened its position even further.The narrow mindedness,limiting nature of our political parties is one of the major reasons of our underdevelopement as a nation.Instead of occupying themselves with the welfare of our country they like to occupy media space and spend time over frivolous issues blissfully forgetting that every Indian is entitled to his or her own view and has the right to express himself.
I'm quite curious about this fresh take on partition from a knowledgeable man.I think its quite interesting to get different views about a particular event.Anyway its just a book where a person has expressed his opinion.Does it change history?Certainly not.
A simple book manages to ruffle so many feathers of a "democratic" nation where people turn a blind eye to poverty,starvation and famine.What could be more ignominious than this?Its high time that we broadened our outlook and stopped creating an issue out of a non issue.