We should be judged by what we have done to our heroes.

On the one hand, we have erased from our collective memory the contributions of a vast gallery of towering figures from this region. On the other, even those whom we do hail as national heroes are rarely accepted in their totality; instead, we attempt to manage and control their posthumous public images.

Perhaps we do not celebrate Sir Ganga Ram and Bhagat Singh because they were not Muslims. We display a peculiar behaviour when it comes to acknowledging the contributions of people belonging to faiths other than Islam, even when these individuals are our countrymen or hail from areas that now constitute Pakistan.

Dilip Kumar - Yousuf Khan — holds a special place in our hearts despite the fact that whatever he achieved was the result of his work in Bollywood. Raj Kapoor —........

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