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Post by Rishi Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:14 pm

It is the moments after the extraordinary; after the iconic, that seem to bear the greatest challenges to hope and perseverance. The roots of the anti-apartheid movement were inextricably knotted with the anti-colonial impetus of the Indian subcontinent that drove the British out in 1947. Partition, the creation of two sovereign independent nations, was a historic achievement, a grand moment in lifetimes of lost struggles and subjugated populations. It was wrought on the brave backs of those that fought and fevered in its turmoil, sacrificed lives and homes and children. Independence and partition was the promise of a better and equal future, of self-governance and of a final end to foreign domination.

It is in the aftermath of great struggles that bonds unravel; that doubts seep in; old resentments return and new ones are born. For Pakistan; now so much farther away from 1947; this moment of doubt, of disbelief and of dissension is the present. The principles that were clear then in the glory of creation seem murky now; the unity that was real then is a memory now. Some parts of history have been kept close to hearts other parts erased fast. Dead leaders have been recast to fit present politics, and questions and confusions litter made-up memories. The moments in which the good triumph and the weak win are the ones we wish would last forever; the ones where the meaning of victory is elusive and the purpose of trying uncertain are the ones that we are left with. After the passing of the historic; lies the desolate wasteland of the ordinary.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1061103/after-partition-after-apartheid


>>>  What is she trying to imply?

Muslims in India were subjugated by Hindus till 1947? And was Jinnah whose sole aim was to break up India the Nelson Mandela of that time?

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