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Originally posted by: Intrepida
yes I forgot the eastern side, Im sorry (i added it to the original post), there are so many sad stories, yes your mother's family was lucky because later families refused to take the women of the family because of the horrible things that happened to them (rape, murder, etc), I heard this man's story, he said he had two sisters, but during the partition, his father said that we cant take the girls across and gave them poison to eat, its just so sad, so sad!you are right, that being uprooted from the only place you consider home is just too painful to even think about! At that time the world just watched as thousands if not millions died because some idiots decided that partition was a great idea!Hope that one day people can look beyond religion, our blood is the same colour, the creator didnt make a difference...In my mind the whole Indian Subcontinent is one nation because we have similar culture, and when invaders came here, they said bharat, they didnt say pakistan or bangladesh!
@bold: i think that was more a problem on the western border. i think bengal in that sense, esp east bengal has always been reasonably genger neutral. but yes, i agree that there is no real difference amongst the people. for thousands of years they were the same region and suddenly we become different nations. even if we accept the political reality of separation, we must atleast live as cordial relatives , not enemies.
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