News about Muhammad Ali Jinnah

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The messiest divorce in history, between India and Pakistan, has killed thousands of people and created two new nuclear superpowers. Extramarital sex was one of the primary causes of the deadly break-up in so many divorces. Partition In Colour (C4) makes an even more dramatic argument. Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Prince Charles' great-unt, is depicted as a woman whose ferocious sex drive changed the world map. Following India's independence from the British Empire, her red-hot affair with the country's most influential man has shattered any chance of keeping the country united. Within days of their first meeting, Louis Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India, and her lover, Congress chief Pandit Nehru, were sleeping together. She was 45 years old when he was 57.