Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.
Brexit: The fruits of a partition
It was alright for England, Scotland and Wales — Great Britain — to leave the European Union and get out of the Customs Union and the Single Market. But what of Northern Ireland, which shared the island with the Republic which wanted to remain in the EU?
One of the ironies of the Brexit crisis in the UK is the price it is paying for having partitioned Ireland when it gained independence a century ago. At the final stage, the six counties of North Ireland rejected independence and stayed with the Union. The dissident province had Protestant majority and Catholic minority, while the independent part had Catholic majority. (Sounds familiar?)
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