Gandhi wanted to spend 15 August, 1947 in Pakistan: Book
(The Times of India)

This was, however, neither tokenism nor a gesture of support for a country carved out of multifaith India in the name of one religion, Islam, the author writes in `Gandhi`s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah`s Islam`. `It was a promise of defiance. Gandhi simply did not believe in the partition of India, and the creation of new, `unnatural` borders by an arbitrary scalpel in a fit of what he described as momentary madness,` he says.