India, March 24 -- There has never been a single day in the whole history of the news media when the media reported that peace prevails on the whole planet Earth and that everything is going right in the world. A study of the recorded history of the world gives conclusive evidence that there has constantly been bitter or bloody strife over the last two-and-a-half millennia. This strife may have been social, economic, political, cultural, ethnic, religious, or militaristic, or of any other kind; often, it was bolstered by a claim that it was for a noble goal or a just cause.

Similarly, those who were responsible for the partition of the Indian subcontinent claimed that it was done for the noble goal of seeking justice for one particular c...