Religion based Cold War strengthened religious fundamentalism across borders.
Interview Sukirat Singh Anand
He shared out of box views not only about India Pakistan cold war but also threw light on Indian left and his memories about than USSR along with legacy of Gurbasksh Singh of Preetnagar & Preet Larri fame and Jagjit Singh Anand, editor, senator and activist of CPI.
Love with #US, both India & Pakistan in their formative years
Both newly formed countries were anxious to join American Block and used Anti-Communist mantra, a colonial legacy, in 1948 and 1954 but in later stage when India had to join Russian block it had changed its narrative and presented an impression that joining US was not its choice. But letters of Nehru to Kanji Dwarkadsas written in late 1946 & early 1947 preserved in Kanji's book is a proof of that fact. Kanji was member of Congress Working Committee and at that time he was in US to attend International Labor Organization's first meeting as Congress representative.
After the 2nd Communist Congress (Feb 1948), the government of India had banned CPI and the Nehru government had arrested many communists, including my father
Preetnagar location near Pak India border , north of wahga, Lhore
There were many villages around Preetnagar like Vero-ki, Loko-ki, Chugawan, Ranian etc.
My father was among three editors of a communist weekly newspaper Jang e Azadi in pre-partition times including Teja Singh Sutantar.
Fikar Tunsvi was also included among its contributors at early stage of Nawaan Zamanana newspaper in 1950s.
A humanist cum progressive yet did not joined CPI
Caste of Gurbaksh Singh was Ahlu Walia but he neither use it nor I knew it till his death. Such people were rare among reds.
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Back Title of Sukirat book
Title of the book written by Sukirat first in Punjabi than translated in English. He is witness to surrender yet he thinks its reasons were internal and those who knew about the Soviet society and former #USSR can understand it well. Will try to share recording of his thoughts about Soviet society soon.
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