Disclaimer / Humble Request to Moderators:
My dearies, Aadab!
This thread is intended strictly for positive, respectful, and friendly conversations. Kindly do not allow hate speech, abuse, provocation, or hostile debate here. Critics and dissenting views have countless other threads to express themselves. Please help keep this space clean, calm, and human.
Dear PPers,
Aadab! Namastey! Sat Sri Akal! Kem chho!
This thread is a quiet room in a noisy world. A place for warmth, memory, and possibility. Not debate. Not blame. Just the parts of our shared story that still breathe kindness.
India and Pakistan were not born strangers. We grew from the same soil, drank from the same rivers, laughed in the same courtyards. The Indus does not ask for passports. Punjab’s fields do not change colour at Wagah. A ghazal written in Lahore still finds its echo in Lucknow. A raga composed in Gwalior still stirs something deep in Karachi.
Our languages overlap like old friends finishing each other’s sentences. Urdu and Hindi share a spine. Punjabi, Sindhi, Bengali once flowed freely across today’s borders. Our kitchens are cousins. Our festivals mirror each other. Eid, Diwali, Basant, weddings that last three days and involve too much food and too many emotions. These are not coincidences. They are inheritance.
Cricket alone could fill volumes. Not rivalry as hatred, but rivalry as theatre. Shared heartbreaks, shared heroes, shared childhood memories glued to radio commentary and TV screens. When one side plays beautifully, the other secretly knows it too.
There is also the harder shared history. Pain, displacement, loss. But even that pain is common. The grief of Partition belonged to both. Remembering that truth humanizes everyone. It reminds us that suffering did not wear a single flag.
Imagine what collaboration could look like if fear stepped aside. Trade that benefits farmers and small businesses. Cultural exchanges where artists, poets, filmmakers meet without suspicion. Students learning together. Scientists collaborating. Journalists telling stories of people, not just conflicts. Tourism that lets people see how familiar the “other side” feels.
Communication is not surrender. Friendship is not weakness. Peace is not naïveté. It is strength, confidence, and maturity.
If you’re posting here, post with empathy. Post with memory. Post with hope.
Two nations. One civilization. Many futures.
India–Pakistan : #OnlyLove
