Akhand Bharat and its actual contents

The ease with which 4 million people have been termed 'illegal' without any resistance from the rest of us is deeply disturbing

This week, a story was reported about a temple in Varanasi, which had been inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. The temple’s unique feature was a marble “map” — I suppose the reporter meant a bas-relief — of undivided India. The bits that are today Bangladesh and Pakistan and places farther afield were included in this particular depiction of Bharat Mata. The temple was in a state of some disrepair but was hopeful of landing funding from one of the many schemes that have been launched to “beautify” Varanasi (assuming such a thing is actually possible — I have visited it and