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To Become Our Enemies - What An Absurdity. A Crazy Absurdity When You Stop To Think That We, Muslims And Hindus, Had Conducted The Struggle For Independence Together.

You Found An Uncle On One Side And A Nephew On The Other, A Cousin Here And A Cousin There. Besides It's Still True Today. I'll Tell You Something Else. There Was A Time When Even Two Ambassadors To Switzerland, The One From India And The One From Pakistan, Were Two Blood Brothers. Oh, The Partition Imposed On Us By The British Was So Unnatural!

It Would Seem That It Was Not In The Interest Of 'someone' For Us To Make Progress. It Was In 'someone's' Interest That We Be Always At War, That We Tear Each Other To Pieces. Yes, I'm Inclined To Absolve The Pakistanis. How Should They Have Behaved? Someone Encouraged Them To Attack Us, Someone Gave Them Weapons To Attack Us. And They Attacked Us.

I Like To Think I've Provided This Faith. I Also Think That By Providing Faith, I've Focused Their Pride. I Say Focused Because Pride Isn't Something You Give. It Doesn't Even Break Out Suddenly; It's A Feeling That Grows Very Slowly, Very Confusedly.

When One Has Had A Life As Difficult As Mine, One Doesn't Worry About How Others Will React.