MJ Akbar has identified, as many have done before him the root of all the maladies that plague the Indian Subcontinent today: Partition. The vivisection of India was a moral tragedy and a strategic blunder. India is a unitary civilisational-strategic entity that extends from the Indus to the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta and for it to exist in this state of flux is both unnatural and untenable. It's as if two limbs have been torn asunder and the rump has been left bleeding for 61 years.

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Jindal has probably the toughest decision of any potential contender. On the one hand, being a son of immigrants and a minority, is going to be a useful and potent narrative in any election cycle. And arguably, its power will be diminished following a President Obama, who ran on a similar sort of narrative. People might just be fed up with “young and diverse” in 2012. On the other hand, because of Obama’s election, Republicans are probably more willing tha they’d ordinarily be to practice a litt… Continue