I was shocked to see a headline in an Urdu news paper which claimed that the movie 'Azhar has unearthed the conspiracy against the former captain. Nothing can be more foolish to judge the facts on the basis of a Bollywood movie.

The execution of Muti ur Rahman Nizami, I observe, has generated some interest about the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war involving Pakistan and India. Without touching the issue of whether or not Nizami was guilty, I, as a keen observer of the subject can for sure claim that the West Pakistanis at all levels committed atrocities on Bengalis for 24 years in the United Pakistan leading to disintegration of the country. Hamood ur Rahman Commission formed after the war also pointed out at this undeniable fact.

More than Middle East, I, in my private talks with informed journalist friends have been expressing concern about what's happening in Bangladesh a place which has turned into a laboratory by the varying ideologies. One hand the Hasina led establishment executing Islamists for decades old war crimes, the religious bigots on the other, are targeting secularists and sectarian opponents mercilessly. Why cant we have a moderate way instead of this extreme or that extreme, I always wonder!

Call it political pressure or system failure, the clean chit to Sadhvi has yet again proved that we as a nation have of late become selective in delivering justice. Looking at way the country is being run since the last two years, it doesn't sounds improbable to me that the Government reopens Gandhi assassination case and declares Godse a martyr posthumously. We need more Karkares and Rohini Salians to build a just society.

Who was Nehru? It was Godse and Savarkar who led the struggle for India's freedom. The slogans like Inquilab Zindabad and Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna had Sanskrit origin! Be ready to see stuff like this in history books, if the policies of BJP led dispensations in the country are any indication.

His name is Khan and he is the Mayor of London