Operation Searchlight started on March 25, 1971. Over the next 267 days, three million Bengalis were killed; lakhs of women brutalised. Around 10 million people fled the country to escape brutality

Mahatma Gandhi was anguished that India's Constituent Assembly rejected Lord Mountbatten's flag proposal which included Union Jack in the canton of India's tricolour flag

Allama Iqbal defined the Muslim of India there could be no possibility of peace in the country unless and until they were recognized as a nation and under a federal system, the Muslim majority units were given the same privileges which were to be given to the Hindu majority units

Savarkar warned his audience: "Before passing this resolution, just bring before your mind's eye the dreadful prison walls, and the dreary dingy cells"

The integration of the state of Hyderabad was also problematic for Nehru because the ruler of the province, the Nizam, was a Muslim. The Nizam’s predominantly Hindu subjects suffered at the hands of Razakars, the local militia, who wanted Hyderabad to remain an Islamic state outside the Union of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the then Education Minister and great friend of Nehru, opposed the idea and in one of the Cabinet meetings argued that the ruins should be handed over to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to be preserved in the same ruinous condition as a historical monument

For us Shastri Ji is a symbol of a person who selflessly served the country without expecting anything in return, he laid down an example that how politicians should conduct themselves in public life. For us, he is still a hero and will remain a hero for the generations to come

While Nehru was more concerned about foreign visits, taking advice of the UN and British officers, and connecting only with the urban elite, Patel spent more time in villages and amid the masses. Using his exemplary skills, he forced all the 550 small princes and zamindars to surrender and accede to Independent India

Razvi gave the responsibility of the MIM to Abdul Wahed Owaisi, thus letting the Owaisi family run what remained of the MIM. The MIM was banned for a brief period in 1948, after which it changed its name to AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Itihadul Muslimeen) and contests elections to this day

Most important factor in this massacre of Hindus and Sikhs is that the Pakistan government and military was directly involved and responsible for atrocities on Hindus. This was not the work of Muslim mobs alone. This was a planned move by Pakistan and an attempt at ethnic cleansing of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan