9th February'2017
Partition effected so many people in many ways that were violent and heartless. As Mr. Ravi Chopra says, everyone lived together, played together, ate together and the same people were burning houses, looting and pushing the same people out of "their" territory. Some people refused to leave the homes their generations had been staying in but people didn't see this coming.
It were the political power and different ideologies that cut through peoples normal lifestyle. We find similarity between all religious communities because at a time we all got along. e share similarities in various things like humour, culture, conflict, language as shared by Vazira Zaminder. But after the politics cut through and made the physical borders, internal borders formed between the two communities. They look at each other as enemies and in some way, they have right to do so because people like Shane Ali have seen their family die in front of them. How can people forget those incidents and just break the internal border. However, as generations are passing, people are trying t break these borders and look at it in a more humane way and see everyone as 1 community and try to break the partition.
The partition was a result of politics. Everyone had a part, even the Brits as told by Vazira Zaminder. They created the conflict between two religions. Also Nehru and Jinnah shared different ideologies. But these people weren't also aware of what this partition meant and what could happen when two large communities were to split.
From my own point of view, a lot has changed. I heard people tell that EVERYONE got along but I've hardly seen hindus or Sikhs getting along with Muslims. All I have seen is TWO countries that see each other as enemies and like to defeat each other in sports and in war. They see each other differently and have made the differences stand out, in culture, in religion, in everything. I, being an india, have only heard people and my own family talk about Pakistan as a country that brought pain and I am sure that is what is happening in Pakistan too. A lot of generations have been brought up since then and everyone id being brought up differently with their own mindset but as time is passing, for people it might just be an event in history.
10 million people were left unrooted and about a million died. It has been 70 years and people have moved on. But a lot of people went through it saw scenes that were inhumane, violent and deadly. People have been hurt and the scar still remains and for some people it is difficult to get along with the separated side. People have their families split up, their life time's work just left there but time is passed and people are still healing.
We listened to Mr. Shane Ali. His mother and brother died in front of him and he was sent to some other family for six months. In his voice we could hear the uncertainty he ad. We saw how he faced difficulty to trust people. What we also could hear in his voice is the maturity and modesty they gained because they experienced something at the extreme level. They struggled for their life and tey have have learnt a lot about life and the pain it has.
Partition effected so many people in many ways that were violent and heartless. As Mr. Ravi Chopra says, everyone lived together, played together, ate together and the same people were burning houses, looting and pushing the same people out of "their" territory. Some people refused to leave the homes their generations had been staying in but people didn't see this coming.
It were the political power and different ideologies that cut through peoples normal lifestyle. We find similarity between all religious communities because at a time we all got along. e share similarities in various things like humour, culture, conflict, language as shared by Vazira Zaminder. But after the politics cut through and made the physical borders, internal borders formed between the two communities. They look at each other as enemies and in some way, they have right to do so because people like Shane Ali have seen their family die in front of them. How can people forget those incidents and just break the internal border. However, as generations are passing, people are trying t break these borders and look at it in a more humane way and see everyone as 1 community and try to break the partition.
The partition was a result of politics. Everyone had a part, even the Brits as told by Vazira Zaminder. They created the conflict between two religions. Also Nehru and Jinnah shared different ideologies. But these people weren't also aware of what this partition meant and what could happen when two large communities were to split.
From my own point of view, a lot has changed. I heard people tell that EVERYONE got along but I've hardly seen hindus or Sikhs getting along with Muslims. All I have seen is TWO countries that see each other as enemies and like to defeat each other in sports and in war. They see each other differently and have made the differences stand out, in culture, in religion, in everything. I, being an india, have only heard people and my own family talk about Pakistan as a country that brought pain and I am sure that is what is happening in Pakistan too. A lot of generations have been brought up since then and everyone id being brought up differently with their own mindset but as time is passing, for people it might just be an event in history.
10 million people were left unrooted and about a million died. It has been 70 years and people have moved on. But a lot of people went through it saw scenes that were inhumane, violent and deadly. People have been hurt and the scar still remains and for some people it is difficult to get along with the separated side. People have their families split up, their life time's work just left there but time is passed and people are still healing.
We listened to Mr. Shane Ali. His mother and brother died in front of him and he was sent to some other family for six months. In his voice we could hear the uncertainty he ad. We saw how he faced difficulty to trust people. What we also could hear in his voice is the maturity and modesty they gained because they experienced something at the extreme level. They struggled for their life and tey have have learnt a lot about life and the pain it has.
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