India, Oct. 31 -- What is nationalism? It is that feeling among a society which demonstrates that people can breathe together, or rather, their souls can breathe together. The question is: does this happen in our country India? Many Indians do not think so.

It is necessary to go into the reasons for this. Only 78 years ago, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had taken away two-thirds of the Muslim population of undivided India to form a separate country called Pakistan. But Pakistan did not happen overnight. Before Jinnah, from the 1920s to the 1940s, and even earlier, in the 1880s, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University, had publicly declared, on more than one occasion, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate n...