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An IndiaBizHub reel presents Khan Sir defending Gandhi’s legacy through his 1947 peace work, Mountbatten’s “one-man boundary force” tribute, an Einstein quotation and a comparison with criticism of Jinnah in Pakistan. The historical core is broadly supported, but Gandhi was in Calcutta—not Noakhali—on 15 August 1947, Einstein did not specify “100–200 years,” and the claim…
UPDATED : 15 Sep 26 / 11:26 am
No comments on Khan Sir’s Gandhi tribute gets the 1947 peace mission broadly right, but overstates the Pakistan comparison