About the Book: The Only Fatherland: Communists, Quit India and the Soviet Union
A shocking expose of the role of Indian communists during the Quit India
Movement
Are ideologies a pair of binoculars that enable us to see far? Or are they a
pair of blinkers that keep us from seeing even that which is at hand? How is it
that communists, equipped as they are with the one great Theory that explains
everything, fumble so very often in seeing the obvious? How did the Theory lead
them to advocate the creation of Pakistan? To declare in 1947 that India had not
really become independent? To insist