# The Biggest Mistake

Friends though its a comic blog but it doesn't mean that we can't discuss something serious  over here,in fact we can occasionally when a need arises to do so and today there is something which is not comical,i wish to share and discuss with all of you.
Well friends i have heard a lot of about partition that it was a biggest mistake committed ever till now,i have also heard that millions of peoples suffered a lot as they were forced to be uprooted from their base,they were forced to leave their relatives,friends
and their homeland because of a sheer nonsense and scary drama(unfortunately which was real) which took place only because of few power centers(rather peoples) who were not ready to budge a single millimeter from their positions of greed,who were not
ready to accept a second place in greedy power politics.

 

But here,my friends,i will not talk about the evil aspect of that dirty and opportunistic politics which was behind this ugly decision,i also don't want to dig about that who actually was the real culprit behind all this senseless and gory action,i also would not try to hold 
any particular party or person responsible for this heinous 'crime' but in fact or rather i will talk about the wounds which the whole human community got in August 1947,i will talk about the agony and pain through which the mankind suffered in this 8th month of 1947,i will seriously try to feel and make all of you feel at least a millionth fraction of that pain,agony,anger,helplessness,fear,trauma and torture which mankind was forced to suffer by some so called 'wise and educated' persons,i will try to prepare all of you so that you can hear that silent plight of mankind which is still in air right from that particular day of August 47'.
Friends,alike most of those peoples who were born after independence i read/heard about partition from my school books and other sources but took no notice more than that which one takes while hearing news about accident,scams,mishaps on TV while sitting in room and sipping coffee.

It started from then when we shifted to our new house and due to the heavy workload 
of shifting all our luggage,goods to new place i was forced to think that shifting from one house to another though in same city is not easy,i further thought it would have been more painful to shift to another city and in the same line my next thought obviously was how painful will it be if someone have to shift to another state and what about that
when someone have to shift another country!!Yessss,it was that moment when it strike my mind that what must have happened when a whole population en-mass was forced to shift from one country to another,what would have those millions of people must have felt 
when they were made to uproot from their roots,how much painful would it have been for those millions of persons who left behind their house,land,property,belongings,relatives,

friends and shifted to a unseen land for a unknown future.
This was the instance when for the first time i felt about the futility of this decision for mankind,for the first time i was able to feel the common pain(though of a millionth fraction) which one bears in shifting process.After it in due course of time  when i have 

to leave my city and state to settle in other state because of job then i came across with the feelings which one feels when he/she is away from his peoples and home.

This was the second instance where i thought how much lonely and alone it feels being away from relatives/friends and home.
Lastly,very recently when while surfing through the net i came across with the images of before and after partition showing peoples of both sides leaving pathetically with bag and baggage,i felt as if i was present right there with that human caravan who was moving with shattered dreams in search of unknown and dark future same as a deer runs after mirage.
While going through these pictures in detail much of the pain,anger and agony i was able to feel through which that and following generation must have gone through.
Here i wish to share that common pain and agony with you through these pictures which triggered two opposite feelings in me,i.e. agony and anger,agony for the sufferings,pain and torture of those poor peoples who were forced to erase their lives to zero 

and anger for selfishness and meanness of those politicians who in their greed of
power and post didn't bother to think that their decision will cause a havoc and collateral damage to the life of their common countrymen of not only of this generation but will also create a irreversible and cascading damaging effect on the future generations of both the country.

Here are those pictures,pl go through them and if you could feel any part of the same sympathy,pain and agony towards the sufferings of the humanity and anger for the cause of these sufferings of our people then pl do share your feelings,thoughts and reactions.

Peoples migrating in bullock carts and other transport modes,you can notice the mile stone on the left side of the road which shows that 'Kasur'(a town in Pakistan) is 2 Km/Mile(?) ahead.

A old woman is being carried away by two of her family members for this gruesome journey.

 

A man carrying his child along with belongings.

Everything has been destroyed and ruined for this old lady.

 

















"When this cruel journey will end"....seems this old man,on the verge of death,must be thinking.

Those who succumbed during the journey were left behind like this only to be fed upon by vultures.

And many of them were buried hastily and improperly but only to be dug out by scavengers.

 























Many of them became victim of interim riots sparked by utter frustration,agony and anger.

One more victim of the outcome of such shameful and dastardly decision. 

Only these poor and helpless peoples were the sufferers on the altar of the most dirty and selfish politics India ever faced.

 

Poor persons moving towards a unknown future.

and those who succeeded to reach safely resulted only to live for a indefinite period in refugee camps.

Most dreadful and horrifying pictures are these which were taken during the communal riots of Kolkata in 1946 triggered by communal parties of both sides to apply pressure in favor of partition.

A victim of riot lying in a doorway with a vulture beside it waiting to feast.Its very bitter and painful to witness this even in photographs.

A blood curdling sight...vultures feasting on the decaying corpses of the riot victims as there was not enough manpower and resources to clean the bodies in time.

Value of human life in eye of the devil and evil politics.

(Images courtesy:old indian photos.blogspot.com)


A British policeman smoking cigarette and supervising the loading of the corpses as it was a routine job for him.

So this was all for this thoughtful post my friends,hope you must have gone through the same agony and pain through which i have.
Someone has truly said that "reality is more strange and fictional than any other fiction or comic".