india in my dreams

                          INDIA IN MY DREAMS

I gladly received few guests from the other side of the border. I gazed at them with a soft contended smile on my face. They too snuggled up against me and hugged me tightly for the reason that we were meeting after years , years which were hard to remember , the date which I had torn from my calendar page , broken the hour glass to bring the time to rest  but the separation was inevitable. India and especially , I was destined to evident the doom , a curse for the fate of my nation. I offered them to sit and we spent a blissful evening together. My wife delightedly lightened the tandoor in my courtyard and my mother helped her in making delicious parathas for our beloved guests.

Ting tong (calling bell rang) I woke up , startled, searched for my guests, but no one was there ,  my house was empty as it was from years. The tandoor in my courtyard was as cold as if fire had not touched it from a decade. I looked at the portrait of my wife hanging on the wall , asking me to wipe the layer of dust deposited over it.…..it was a dream , I realized , it must be a dream. I could still feel the drops of tears those were falling on my hand when I was dragging my sister out when few beasts set my house on fire , the wailings of my wife and my old mother are still echoing in my ear. I don’t remember if they were Hindus or Muslims who burnt my house , I didn’t even care to know who they were or to which religion they belonged . All I know was that many people of my village died as the wreckage blazed , I found my burnt naked wife with the pieces of her sari sticking all over her body forming blisters who died just the minute i saw her lying under the bed and I couldn’t find my mother and sister both. Even after so many years no one dared to jump the iron fence drawn on the breast of the huge nation; no one tried to erase the agreement made on few mere papers which decided the fate of the nation.

                   -  A page from the diary of a person who had seen the partition of India in august 1947.

If suppose there wouldn’t have any such separation and India would have been standing, like it was prior the vicious blow of partition

There would have been eight continents in the world. India would have added a number to the count of seven continents on the world map;

Political leaders of what now we call, Pakistan and Bangladesh  would have been roaring for the development of our nation , shouting in the parliament of India for passing some bills either as a member of ruling government or as a part of opposition , conducting peace marches , anti corruption rally over each state of India;

We have been visiting  the tourist spots like Lahore fort and Badshahi masjid of Pakistan and lalbagh fort and sixty dome mosque at bagerhat in bangladesh  as we visit Tajmahal,  charminar, India gate , etc. We wouldn’t have required any passport or visa to travel, a simple bus or train ticket would have been enough.;

                                " mili baat karne ki ajadi ,vote dene ki azadi,

                                  

                                  lekin kab milegi mujhe sarhad ke uspaar 

                                 mere bichde hue bhaiyon se milne ki azadi.

                                 azadi to tab hogi , jab me sarhad par, uspaar ke 

                                 doston ke sath football khelunga , mere bhai ke piche 

                                 cycle pe baith ke border ke paar ghumne jaya karunga......." words of a 18 year old boy 

staying in a village near the border.

India wouldn’t have witnessed four devastating wars , namely the first Kashmir war in 1947 , 1965 , 1971 and most recently the kargil war of 1999 which cost thousands of brave soldiers to both the nations.

INS Shivalik ,INS mysore , INS Vikrant would have been sailing parallel with PNS Shah jahan  and  PNS tipu sultan for the security of india. Jaguar , SU-30  would have been flying with JF-17 Thunder of Pakistan and YAK-130 and Nanchang of Bangladesh in the Indian sky.

Kapil dev and wasim akram , sachin tendulakar and sohaib akhtar would have played for the same team , team India. Indian would have been the most strongest cricket team and teams like Australia , west indies would have never dreamt of winning even a single world cup;

There wouldn’t have been such a big issue when Sania mirja married sohaib mallick of Pakistan. Infact there would have been numerous marriages across the border.

Muslims would not have been considered as a minority group in India. India perhaps would not have ever witnessed Hindu Muslim riots which had always splayed the shades of blood on the face of India.

India would have been the largest democratic secular republic which values human relations , love and peace above any  religion in the true sense and not just in fake speeches of politicians and the essays we write in schools. Try to make India a place where love is valued , not the mere religion of a person because life is far more valuable than any religion and remember one thing when anyone is killing for the shake of his religion , he is killing his own own god and his own religion in the true sense.

“ Dum hai to akash me lakeer khinchke dikha,

Be phikar udte hue parindon ke par kat ke dikha,

Kya  dum dikhaya tune do bhayion ko juda kar ke,

Dum hai to banti hui jamin ko aur ek baar milake dikha”

 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY.

                                     BE A TRUE INDIAN TO CELEBRATE THAT