No “Vande Mataram” please, but “Chak de”

It is only a 60-year political history which divides India and Pakistan; a several- thousand-year history unites us. We are the same people, and a North Indian, especially a Punjabi, has a lot more in common with a Lahori than with a Chennai-based Tamil. And the latter has a lot more in common with a Sri Lankan than with me.