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Line Of Control Ritam Saha, July 22, 2018 Kolkata, India “Geopolitics and peace cannot go together”, commented nanaji , as he stared at the morning’s Times of India lying on the sofa. The front page had a large graphic and bold headlines which announced “Two Pak Rangers killed in gunfire near LoC”. As someone who's personally followed the papers each morning, this was probably the tenth or eleventh article on Pakistan I came across this month. In 1947, the British left the Indian subcontinent, dividing it as they went. What happened to be a united Punjab in the heart of the empirical colony was now divided into half with a pen across a map. For a first, India would be broken in two parts, one Hindu, one Muslim. On the western side, the state of West Pakistan was born. Curled up under the arm of the larger landmass of the newly formed India, the second, significantly smaller province of East Pakistan came into being. Seven million people crossed the newly drawn borders ...