Originally posted by: DelusionsOfNeha
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Yes.. when I read Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan... I couldn't sleep for a week 😭 even Manto's stories are spine chilling 🥺
Where do people bring all this hatred and violence from? 😭
We had to study a story from Raavi Paar by Gulzar in Std. 6 Hindi class, and the whole imagery of Raavi river turning red overnight due to the Partition and the horrors of those on the run and in the train to Amritsar still haunts me. Hate and violence comes from injustice stemming from the governance post-invasions and colonisations and questions of legitimacy of inheritance to the people and region. It does not help that there are various narratives that directly point claims to a certain religion/identity and then everyone belonging to that sect is classified so.
We are talking about the issues concerning our nation directly, but even internationally, post 9-11, there have been numerous brown people who were jailed on the spot, without even trials or proofs, and suffered injustice in those jails, to the extent that the country they once loved and was their birthplace overnight now became their enemy. The movie New York showed this part visually with John Abraham. There are also instances of hate crimes in various regions where the livelihoods of many and their families were threatened and they were discriminated against post the tragedy and they had to move back to their home countries with that contempt in their hearts. It starts from one person, it breaks millions of homes.
Moreover, these are sensitive topics that need to be taught and represented by a neutral view, which a lot of people are not able to, because a lot of them have personally lived the horrors or their direct line of ancestors have, and cannot help but then hate the other side for ravaging their own. People need to be educated on what happened, to accept the sins of their fathers and to acknowledge that not everyone from the other side is evil, circumstances made their ancestors do so for religious supremacy and/or survival at that time. Even till today, the normal people in any of the split countries do not actually hate each other, but have a bad name of doing so due to biased media outlets portraying hate, more than the actual religious harmony that resides in the hearts of many in most diverse cities.
Edited by Me000w - 4 years ago
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