After some days of resting and recovering, Saraswati returned to the public.
It is 3rd October now, and the parliament session will reopen on 2nd January. 3 months later.
She has missed Gandhi's last rites. So after paying her respects, she got on work.
Equal Laws Act has been passed. That's a relief.
Now, she has to work on Delhi, Hyderabad state, and Education Ministry at the same time. That's quite hectic.
First, she sent one of her maid to Japan.
"Delhi is an earthquake zone, and Hyderabad state's coast suffers from cyclones.
Go to Nehru ji and get his permission to interact with Japanese government on Infrastructure."
Japan's infrastructure will be the best in the world. Especially for a country so prone to natural disasters.
Aside from that, she also sent two of her 'non-affiliated' newspapers' editors to Japan to investigate about the death of Subhash Chandra Bose.
Officially, they don't have any connection to her, so they can investigate without any implications.
China is currently a war zone, so investigating in Taiwan where the plane crashed will be difficult. But she still sent them.
Afterall, when Chinese Civil War ends, Taiwan will become dictatorship under the nationalist party.
Next, she rejected an interview request from BBC. Instead she called in her official newspaper 'Samachaar' along with other newspapers like Times of India, New York Times, and USSR state newspaper.
It's time to turn Samachaar into an international newspaper.
Tomorrow, she will leave for Hyderabad and start laying the foundations.
Until Delhi High Court clears the land of Delhi, nothing really can happen. And since Delhi is the capital, there will be a lot of interference.
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In the guest room, Saraswati sat on her sofa, with 4 interviewers sitting on the sofa opposite to her.
Video camera and voice recorder were set up by her.
"Chai?"
"No mam."
"Don't be shy."
She insisted and her maid placed chai and snacks on the table.
And the interview started. Each newspaper was going to take turns in asking questions.
First was Bharat Samachar.
"Saraswati ji, thank you for agreeing to our interview requests."
"I should be thankful instead. Afterall, you media guys are the ones responsible for spreading the message. You know, the 1857 War of Independence would have succeeded if we had nationwide supply of newspapers back then. All Indian newspapers played a huge role in the Independence movement."
"Thank you.
Saraswati ji, what do you want to say about this partition violence? Even Gandhi ji was murdered because of it."
"First of all, I would like to correct you. India and Pakistan weren't partitioned, because that implies that Pakistan existed before 1947.
It's one of my greatest regret to not being able to convince my party before signing the partition document that it should be called as it is, 'Creation of Pakistan', instead of partition.
Well, I can understand why everyone didn't want to further pursue the legal term. Muslim League was holding the country hostage.
Genocide all across Bengal, Western provinces of Punjab, Sindh, etc. We didn't want to sacrifice more lives.
I am of the belief that once we concede to evil, the evil will become more arrogant and greedy.
I believe World War 2 could have been avoided if UK conceded a little to Hitler. So many lives of Indians in a war that has nothing to do with them could have been saved.
But despite my differences, I believe British Empire did the right thing by trying to eliminate Hitler without any compromise, and other countries joined in too as the Holocaust became public.
There are some things that shouldn't be compromised on. If we compromise now for saving lives in the present, constant and more lives will be lost over the years.
So, Pakistan violence is very wrong. It is very difficult to control.
If someone is attacking you and your family, you can only run or retaliate.
Fasting in those moments is not very effective. Let's say that you managed to change the mind of 1 out of 10 people to stop killing others. But there are still 9 people who are coming to kill you.
I condemn the violence. And the main responsibility lies with the perpetrator Muslim League and the allower British government.
If they had let Indian government, which according to 1946 elections, has a clear Congress majority, to have complete control over millitary and police, the violence would have been much less.
Some responsibility also lies with us.
In Delhi and Hyderabad state, the police was largely ineffective in containing the violence. Some terrorists also atacked my house, which is the most secure thing after the main buildings.
So I can't even imagine what happened to others.
I am working on a plan to make police force more effective right now. And aside from the police itself, education and financial stability is the key things I am working on improving.
Afterall, we have a case study. During the Mauryan Empire, that Greek diplomat who was learning from India mentioned that it was strange that during wars, common folks were left unharmed. And there was no scrotched earth practice during that era.
Most of the people knew not only to count, but also knew about moral values.
So as the Indian society as a whole degraded slowly due to invasions, stupid and just plain bad rulers, Macaulay's British Education... all of it is leading to so much violence."
Next was the interviewer from New York Times.