Nothing much ado about.

A monocle, and a suit, to me Jinnah is the visual created by PG Wodehouse as Lord Emsworth. This was then brought to life by snippets narrated by my Nehru-baiting grandmother.
But my actual realization of Jinnah as an individual with romance and family tree came with an article on Jinnah and his Bombay roots in the Illustrated Weekly. That’s when I discovered his Wadia connection too.
Being born a Ismaili Khoja, nurtured in Britain, if he were addressed as Maulana Jinnah he would have found it an absurdity himself. Yet he was not beyond donning the sherwani to demand for Pakistan.
From Mrs. Sarojini Naidu’s chronicles, Jinnah was idealistic and aimed to be a Muslim Gokhale, (it would be educative to my generation and generations after me, to know what gokhale stood for after all we are been flushed down with Nehru-Gandhi)
One thing that struck to me then too, was Jinnah’s view keeping politics and religion separate. That would be great for after religion and sex are personal. Equanimity and equality is just a point of view, of the same base reaction. This would stop all this segregation, and religion based politics and it would also recognize people beyond their religion. People would stop quoting that nonsense where a catholic party president( that’s mrs. Gandhi’s only claim--), steps aside for a Sikh Prime minister who was sworn in by a Muslim President to rule a Hindu majority country. This according to me is the ultimate insult to both Dr.Kalam and Dr.Manmohan singh after they are stalwarts academically. Their religion is an incidental affair.
To quote Jinnah during the moments of partition from Quaid-e-Azam, he had become Quatil-e-Azam.
Coming back to my rambling. I was looking at the title
· Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi was called the Mahatma, he never once protested its use. Which given the image that he built he should have.
· Pundit Nehru, was not a man of religion but a British educated WOG,
· Interestingly Maulanaji was a man of religion. He was a Maulvi.