When Governor’s Rule was again imposed on Jammu and Kashmir, I happened to be reading one of Han Suyin’s less well-known novels, The Four Faces, that had been gathering dust on my shelf for nearly 50 years. It describes a writers congress in Cambodia where Chundra Das, an Indian delegate, says to Ahmed Fouad from Lahore, “Obviously one day Kashmir will return to Pakistan, and East Pakistan return to India”. Das thought it “would be a much more sensible arrangement than the present one”.
It was perspicacious of the Eurasian Han (born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou) to make the connection between
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