My driver is in his 60s, I call him Kalam Bhai, his grandfather was a soldier in the british army.. his father came to Pak but half his family still lives in India. His grandfather didnt come to Pak (his grandmother did lol).
He has been working for us for over 3 years now, (former PIA employee).
He’s older than my father and thus I respect him , we talk about everything. How he visited india decades back, how his chacha and aunts visited Pakistan and so on. His children, his daughters (I call them sisters)... but in the past almost 4 years I have never seen him do what W.11 does.
I have a Panjabi friend, infact one of my best friends... hes been my brother for 15 years his family also saw the horrors of 47 and migrated from eastern Panjab.. he does wish to go and visit his ancestoral graves, house, his village.
But never have I heard or seen him act like w11 guy.
Im sure thats the case with migrants from Pak to india.
I also have Hindu friends I met through my work here at city courts, Karachi.
A Sindhi Hindu Rajput... he is a proud man.. a proud Sindhi a proud Hindu and proud Rajput but in all the time ive spent with the guy, never have I seen him bow to india..
Now if these people who were effected much more by independence dont have any such love for india.. what makes ppl like W11 go all retard?
Doc, you have to understand I dont hate any religion or even race (I do troll, trolls but im not a fukin bigot).
I respect all people, all religions.. but I dont like what ppl like W11 stand for.
But again indian muslims had been coming to Pak till the 90s.. these ppl didnt come here for their love for Pakistan, they came to Pak as more of economic migrants unlike the people who came here during 47. Those are the people who sacrificed everything for this country they call home today.
Others they can go to the deepest pita of hell.
You make a great point about the 90s. Spot on. It was a watershed moment in the relationship between the Pakistan and India Muslim communities.
Till that time Pakistan was the senior brother. Grudgingly. But senior. Looked up to. Talked about.
A lot of this had to do with the glamour and power of the Muslim underworld in Mumbai. And it's connect to Pakistan. The tiresome triangle of Mumbai Karachi Dubai was not yet the norm or necessity.
In the absence of a strong head cleric accepted by the entire community, Indian Muslims took their orders and emotional and communal and financial and power support from Bombay.
With UP and Bihar being the back country. Feeder hinterland. Like the Mafia and Godfather in the US and the Sicilian countryside.
Then a lot of things happened one after another in quick succession in the 90s.
The underworld was killed.
Temple politics and Hindu awakening.
Rath Yatra.
Babri.
Mumbai bomb riots and bomb blasts.
And all this against the backdrop of the Congress sweeping economic liberalisation and the begining of a sleeping sarkari India waking up and lumbering upwards. With increasing pace through. The 90s to the end of the millennium.
The Indian Muslim community was now effectively headless. And under serious state pressure for the first time. And Hindus were dealing with them as a unit and not at local levels anymore.
The Indian Muslim started for the first time wondering whether there was the need to do something differently. As he saw visible signs of progress all around.
Pakistan ceased to be the senior brother during this time.
Then came Kargil.
Then came Gujarat. The nail in their coffin.
And finally 26/11 made the split complete.
Today they are in such a position that they realise what's being done to them, and they know there is little capital in looking in your direction for help.
The Indian Muslim will sink or swim on his own.
What he has in front of him is a militant Hindu right and a large liberal secular counterweight.
Neither if which have any patience or time for Delhi and Nizamuddin type stints.
I've been discussing the same with
@notorious_eagle and
@xeuss just last night.