What if India were not partitioned? A response to supporters of Partition

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

a thought i've expressed often here, but i think at the risk of eliminating one of the great rivalries of the world, this can still be accomplished without political reunification. i just want their cricketers without all the other riffraff.

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

a thought i've expressed often here, but i think at the risk of eliminating one of the great rivalries of the world, this can still be accomplished without political reunification. i just want their cricketers without all the other riffraff.

...but the "riffraff" was part of india just 70 years ago.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

a thought i've expressed often here, but i think at the risk of eliminating one of the great rivalries of the world, this can still be accomplished without political reunification. i just want their cricketers without all the other riffraff.

...but the "riffraff" was part of india just 70 years ago.

i know, but the riffraff there has had a chance to evolve unimpeded by the civilizing effects of democracy, secularism, the rule of law etc.

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

a thought i've expressed often here, but i think at the risk of eliminating one of the great rivalries of the world, this can still be accomplished without political reunification. i just want their cricketers without all the other riffraff.

...but the "riffraff" was part of india just 70 years ago.

on another note, name the cricketers who've played for both india and pakistan.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

a thought i've expressed often here, but i think at the risk of eliminating one of the great rivalries of the world, this can still be accomplished without political reunification. i just want their cricketers without all the other riffraff.

...but the "riffraff" was part of india just 70 years ago.

on another note, name the cricketers who've played for both india and pakistan.

jahangir khan is surely one. did mohammad nissar every play for pak?

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

Thank goodness we escaped bottletop. I wouldn't change a thing about Indain cricket history, good or bad. I can't fathom the the idea of  idiot Pakistanis wearing blue.

Rashmun wrote:http://thesouthasianidea.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/what-if-india-were-not-partitioned/

southindian wrote:USA would have invaded India from Afghanistan to kill Osama bin Laden
Indians and Talibanis would be synonyms
India's economy would get a few billion $ boost from opium trade
Benajir Bhutto would be India's response to Diana's charm
Shariya Law festivities would be reality all across India

Telangana would then be a new state in Unified India after July 30 2013

Rashmun wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

bw wrote:what if india were not partitioned?

imran khan, wasim akram and waqar younis would have played for india!

Thank goodness we escaped bottletop. I wouldn't change a thing about Indain cricket history, good or bad. I can't fathom the the idea of  idiot Pakistanis wearing blue.

Who invented reverse swing bowling? Who invented the doosra?

Propagandhi711 wrote:if india were not partitioned, rashmun would have several more million bearded men to offer his ass to. he would have been constantly giddy like a homo in a bathhouse and never migrated to US.