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OP - October 03, 2015, 08:11 PM

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What she uncovered was a sad story of Spanish flu, forced migration and appalling violence unleashed when India was divided to create modern Pakistan. Rather than let herself be seized by Muslim soldiers, Sant Singh’s first wife Pritam (Rani’s family had never known her name) threw herself down a well, like many village women. Eventually wells were full to the top with bodies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11905086/Who-Do-You-Think-You-Are-Anita-Rani-review-a-harrowing-journey.html?utm_source=NewzSocial&utm_medium=NewzWeb&utm_campaign=Newzweb

The programme states that partition led to the largest population transfer that has ever happened.

Those strutting soldiers at the borders make some mad sense now. There is a huge amount of healing and reconciliation required. A truth commission?

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

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Reply #1 - October 04, 2015, 01:33 AM

It was such a horror on both sides that I cannot wrap my mind around any sort of reconciliation.

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Reply #2 - October 04, 2015, 02:03 PM

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUWaAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=stan+cohen&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC8Q6AEwA2oVChMIu8a4pvuoyAIVxW4UCh2nVwJB#v=onepage&q=stan%20cohen&f=false

Stan Cohen States of Denial.

I had not realised that the formation of Pakistan is equivalent to the holocaust and bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It is weird that so much attention is focussed on Israel and Palestine when actually in comparison nothing much has happened there!

Are many world issues because people have not acknowledged their past, and too easily blame an other, and focus on small things, ignoring the elephants in the room?

A classic one I noticed was accusing apostates of being Uncle Toms, of taking on colonial attitudes. I suppose that includes not writing in English, but also abolishing other colonialist attitudes, like Islam conquering in India?

But that is impossible. Maybe we need to just get on with each other? And that sometimes requires truth and reconciliation processes.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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Reply #3 - October 04, 2015, 08:31 PM

Quote from: moi on October 04, 2015, 02:03 PM
Are many world issues because people have not acknowledged their past, and too easily blame an other, and focus on small things, ignoring the elephants in the room?

Interesting question.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #4 - October 06, 2015, 04:30 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOwWMeVrR1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJYj18iWPEM

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