Both the Widdowson and Elghawaby cases revolve around freedom of speech and the giving and taking of offence. But who their words hurt and how they are expected to respond is telling, writes Anam Zakaria.
In 1947, “United India” got vivisected, in which Punjab and Bengal experienced the divide. This political separation compelled at least 15 million religious minorities to leave their respective “homelands” in search of safe shelters and security of life. Partition violence killed between one and two million people in 1947.
IN Shimla of the 1980s, one daily woke up to a view of what seemed like a castle in deep woods. It was, and is, a power house built by the British in the magnificent isolation in thick forest, though only a short walk away from the nearest human habitation, Kaithu. It is in this building that Intikh