Review: When borders become sacrosanct at the cost of humans it is time to question their validity
Book: Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India Author: Suchitra Vijayan Publisher: Context inam ul rehman God made men, and what did men do? Men made borders, divided humans in mine and thine country, created a humanitarian crisis in which humans are at each other's throat all in the sham faith of protecting the country at the expense of human lives. Suchitra’s seven-year research brings her to the same conclusion that man-made borders have wreaked havoc on the earth and created a rift between humans in which a human being is judged from the place s/he comes from. “No human being is illegal. Existing is not illegal.” These two sentences sum up the author’s motive for writing this book. The book is a drift from the normal readings we generally like to have. It is about the borderlands of India with Bangladesh , Afghanistan , Myanmar , and Pakistan to a lesser extent. These disfranchised people are living on Indian...