Sunday, May 6, 2012

The Internal Matter


They say we are Hindus and should go to India and should not desecrate their land; for India we are Pakistanis and are internal matter of Pakistan. Our ancestors chose to stay back in Pakistan even after the partition, for they didn’t want to get themselves dismembered from their soil.


In the soil …root of people breaths, in the soil… images of past mirrors, in the soil …love of a mother adheres… but when soil becomes sand… it is wafted away by the cruel winds of time and then their remains only callous stones beneath the soles of legs. All recognition of you is obliterated by the gust of time.


So, now time has changed, we are strangers to our own soil. We have our homes but we don’t have possessions to them now. The tents of refugee camps are our recourse to fight against the gruesome realities of nature.



Amid the questions of whose internal matter we are, the internal matter of our dignity and existence is scared.  We had a past, and that is why we have this present but we are horribly clueless about any future. Thus the internal matter of existing at all is in danger. To exist eternally through the progeny is longing of all mortals, but ours is a question to survive the moment… to talk about future of future generations seems a joke at present.


It is said that God is present everywhere but our God seems to have got incarcerated within the walls of a temple in Pakistan. That is why perhaps even he is unable to come to our rescue. But is God also a Hindustani and a Pakistani? Has he also left us because now we are in India? And is it that Gods residing in the temples of India also feel that we are internal matter of the Gods residing in the temples of Pakistan?


P.S: The post and pictures of the post have their root at this link: http://news.in.msn.com/exclusives/it/it_photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=250003279&page=7#image=2
  

10 comments:

  1. such pertinent questions! their plight,their anguish is beyond words and yet you have managed to express it in the post

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  2. Thanx Sujatha for your unwavering support in shape of comments.

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  3. It really raises many questions... Great post.

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  4. i only wait for India and Pak to unite again though i know can nvr happen,gr8 post neeraj!

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    1. Yes, perhaps we all wish so but know that it might never happen.

      Thanks for visiting and commenting Alka ji.

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  5. Indeed a very less discussed topic,,Hardly we evr think of Hindus in Pakistan,,That country has always been an abode of Muslims in our thoughts and imagination. the Last para about discrimination betwn faith and gods was really captive

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  6. Yes we hardly think but the fact is that a sizable chunk of Hindu population used to live in Pakistan at the time of Partition but their numbers have reduced drastically over a period of time.

    Anyways, Thanks for visiting and commenting Reshmi.

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  7. great post Neeraj...
    they don't cast votes nor increase TRPs...who will listen to them....that's how our selfish society is build....

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    1. Thanx a lot SUB. Seeing you after a loooooong time. Everybody missed you on the blogosphere.

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