Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The common Indian and Pakistani

I do not remember the scientific law in electronics which we changed and for son used to say that “A child always opposes his father”. In real life also we have seen that and in many cases it proves to be correct. But the only difference between the electronics law and real life law might be even if the child opposes his/her father, the emotion stays there.

The relationship between India and Pakistan is very similar to that of father and son. Before 1947, we were a single country. After the partition the relations never seemed to be good. As a child Pakistan always opposed India and vice versa. But the fact is we, Indians care for them and I am sure even Pakistanis do care for us.

If you watch Indian TV channels, reality shows or club hockey or club cricket or even listening Bollywood songs, you will see many Pakistanis in that. You will find there are many Indians who are big fan of Atif Aslam, a Pakistani singer. You ask many growing fast bowlers who is their favorite fast bowler or their idol, 70-80% will say Wasim Akram not Kapil Dev. These are few examples which shows how much we Indians like Pakistan.

I am not very sure about Pakistan but have learned for newspapers that the Khans and Big B are house hold names in Pakistan, even Sachin Tendulkar is admired a lot.

I understand from these things is common Indians and common Pakistanis are still the same. They like each other. They do not want any kind of fight between India and Pakistan. The common man of these 2 countries still understand that even if we are 2 different country the way to look into life is same. I wish the thinking remain the same.

The 10-20 misguided young men became terrorist and killed 300 innocents, but lets not let them kill the thinking of the common man. Let’s pray that we enjoy each others success as much as possible.