Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav recently drew a lot of flak from people across the political spectrum, especially the right wing, when he equated Mohd Ali Jinnah with Gandhi, Nehru and others who fought for India's independence. The present day government has a tendency to look at all past figures unidimensionally--either someone was a hero, or a villain. In this episode of 'Itihas ke Panne', Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay and Salil Misra speak about the many facets of Jinnah.
