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A split Pakistan, solution worse than problem
Like India, China is energy-hungry; all its economic progress over the last four decades has depended on import of energy. It can get this energy cheaper only from the Middle East, for which it needs Gwadar Port in Baluchistan, a restive province of Pakistan. Two Chinese were killed in Baluchistan recently. Clearly, CPEC is fraught with dangers in a volatile Pakistan. China’s emphasis would, therefore, be to protect and control the CPEC at any cost, I don’t think Beijing will split or swallow Pakistan--it will come at too massive a cost for China, destroy its reputation globally and make the $900- billion OBOR project a non-starter as other countries will withdraw from it.
A flopped-OBOR project would bury China’s ambition to emerge as a global power. Therefore, the CPEC, in all likelihood, will be controlled by the ISI for China and Pakistan would have to commit all its resources to protect it at any cost. This would ease pressure on India and terror attacks will decline. See, China is a business-focused nation; it must export at any cost to maintain peace at home. For China, India is the next door neighbour and potentially the largest global market. It will, therefore, continue to suffer Pakistan as a necessary evil but also do business with India. Even the Pakistanis are afraid that CPEC would benefit China and India more than it would Islamabad! If, in the process, Pakistan splits, India must not accept any of its parts unless its population converts to Hinduism—or it will create fresh Muslim-majority areas! A split Pakistan will be all the more detrimental to India, a solution worse than the problem.
How long have you been sitting over the idea of such a book?
Virendra Pandit: BJP leaders’ LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi’s yatras (Somnath- Ayodhya Yatra and the Kanyakumari- Srinagar Ekta Yatras) in the 1990s gave me food for thought. These were the biggest Hindu efforts, after Adi Shankarcharya’s in the eighth century, to consolidate Hinduism. I began to think about this book then.
But, then, as I explored and researched on, the book took on a global dimension; so, I first published The Biology of History--Ascent of Women in 2013. The new book, Return of the Infidel, was originally planned to be part of the first one. But the book became so bulky that I had to split it into two. I began to write the second book about a decade ago
Tell us something about your first book. The Biology of History... is reinterpretation of world history in terms of Darwinism. It has a much larger canvass. It is an attempt to provide a strong scientific basis to global history and historiography, how we Homo sapiens have evolved, why males have evolved faster and for what and why they are yielding place to women as the Fourth Wave of Civilisation.
Pakistan is like a porcupine, one has to be wary if it is in the yard, one has to be wary if it is lurking in the bush. Virendra Pandit’s book, Return of the Infidel is set to raise many a hackle, especially his statement that Islam has been evicted from the Indian subcontinent and is now in its death throes in a corner called Pakistan. Book Link asks this versatile writer, does he think, soon a day will come when Pakistan will be split by China? Will India get part of now Pakistan in the process?
Was the process of finding a publisher difficult?
Finding a publisher for ‘doubtful’ books like mine is really very difficult, particularly when, with the rise of education and literacy, the number of readers has not increased correspondingly. In fact, conventional book readership has declined as younger readers are migrating in hoards towards e digital books. That was why I had to self-publish my first book. But I must thank Vitasta Publishing, particularly Renuji, for believing in my work and publishing the book.
" The new books are on who manufactured our gods and why, how our gods are warring against one another, and how Nature is planning the Seventh Mass Extinction. "
Unlike many other first civilisations, which assimilated Christianity and Islam wholesale, India, China and Japan treated the two great religions only in the role of catalysts and as curative. Today, Egypt, despite its pyramids, cannot hope to revive its past, nor can Greece or Rome hope to regain their pre-Christian glory. The reason is simple: they allowed Christianity to almost completely erase their past. Not so in India, China or Japan. These Asian nations have preserved their identities, cured their dysfunctionality and risen like phoenix over the last two centuries. Clearly, they are the great survivors on the chessboard of organic evolution.
You say men are killing men in wars—it will be soon an Earth full of women...isn’t that going to impede survival of species?
men; they create this biological world and provide continuity to life. Men are essentially the providers of change in this process, as they inject variety, plurality and survival benefits, without which continuation of life can be terminated due to abundance of more-of-the-same. In the First Wave (agriculture), Homo sapiens believed in the equality of sexes as both men and women worshiped the Sun together as provider of life-supporting crops; the Second Wave (industrial evolution) necessitated male-domination, culminating into Islam. Having achieved this, Nature is now winnowing out men as the Third Wave necessitates equality of sexes again. Extinction of large number of men could, however, impede our survival for some time, particularly in the Muslim world. But the overall scenarios, like skewed sex ratio in some countries, overpopulation elsewhere and the like, I think, would balance it out. I am planning to update my first book next year. Besides, two books are nearing completion and a third is on the drawing board.
