‘History repeats itself. First as a tragedy and second as farce’ – Karl Marx As most children raised before parenting books started topping sales chart, I was accustomed to corporal punishment, both at school and at home. But there was one distinction when it came at being punished at home. It was my father and the words he uttered before meted out the punishment I deserved. “ Laathon ke bhoot batoon se nahi maante ” Which roughly translates into, ‘ what can be achieved with force is seldom achieved with words ’. The reason I am sharing this rather fun story with you is because, I read something on Quora about operation blue star, which then made me read up on the Muslim league. And I couldn’t help but think to myself… ‘Damn! The colonists played a mean game of Keyser Sozian John Doe with us lot. They divided us. We joined hands, won our freedom, only for us to go back to our age old squabbles of who gets the bigger piece of the pie.’ We revel in...