The New Beginning

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You write so well with the absence of malice. Reminds me the story of a family friend who parents were killed in front of his eyes when he was eight years old. As he tells it at times he still wakes up screaming in the middle of the night.
Have you considered publishing your stories?

Gill Sahib
Thanks for sharing your personal experience. We should have learned lessons from such a terrible events of partition as a society. Unfortunately, we did not do much except blaming on each other. I wish there were a leader who had tried all those who killed innocent people, raped women, and looted other`s property. But that is a romance, which can only exist in books. I remeber an old woman in our neighborhood, who were so happy when many sikhs were killed by the indian army after the assasination of Indra Gandhi.
Many of us behave like barbarians when there is a security vacum. It brings a classic arguement , whether humans are savages or civilized?
It seems that you love Mirza Ghalib. I see his ````shair```` in your article.

saya mera muj sey misl duur bhagai hai
pass muj aatesh bajan kis kai thehra jaey hai

Regards.

Hi Mohammad,

Really one of the best articles that I have read in Chowk, because of the intensity and passion with which you have written. I could almost feel myself taking the same journey with you while reading the article.

Lots of innocent people got killed during the communal riots. and humans became worse than animals, because animals only kill when they are hungry. Today when most of the sub continents population is below 25 years of age and did not witness the pain and horror of partition, hopefully there is less emotional baggage to go around.

Time only will tell. However we have only ourselves to blame for the mess that we find our countries in, and unless we take responsibility and corrective action, we cannot blame an outsider.

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