Yunan o misr o roma sabmit gaye jahan se, baqi abhi talak hai naam o nishan hamara. Kuch bat hai ki hasti mitti nahi hamari, sadiyon raha hai dushman daur e zaman hamara. Greece, egypt and rome and have disappeared from the surface of the earth, but in the name and fame of india, our country, has survived the ravages of time and the cataclysms of the ages. Surely, this is an eternal element that had frustrated all attempts at our obliteration, in spite of the hostility and enmity towards us. It was with this ode to india by iqbal that dr. Sachchidananda sinha, the temporary chairman of the constituent assembly, ended his inaugural address on Monday, the 9th of December 1946 at 12 noon. By the end of 1949, India's constitution under the stewardship of Babasaheb Ambedkar would be ready. India would become a republic on 26th January 1950, ending the British dominion forever. Yet two countries were born in 1947 simultaneously. Pakistan couldn't prepare it's first constitution till 1956. Just 2 years later, ayub khan scrapped it after a military coup. He then brought his own constitution, which his successor and dictator yahya khan scrapped in 1969. Zulfikar bhutto then drafted a fresh one in 1973. This made Pakistan an islamic republic. The first line of pakistan's preamble is the universe belongs to the almighty Allah alone. It also includes a tribute to Jinnah in the preamble itself, although Jinnah wanted a secular country. All these decades later, India is big, powerful, increasingly prosperous, free country. Pakistan is a bankrupt, collapsing, army despot controlled terroristan. There's something we got right, something the Pakistani’s got horribly wrong. They might never learn the lessons, we should certainly examine ours. As Pakistan continues to crumble away today, was their an inflection point that took them to the path of the dark side, or were they doomed to this fate by Jinnah himself. On the occasion as we celebrate the founding of our republic, let's have that conversation.