An answer to those who want to shed darkness over a healing nation. a note to say NO to racial divisions ! In July 2018 I saw a poster on face book which said “Dear friends, we are deeply sorry!” I saw many of my friends posting or sharing their view on this poster. An elderly who didn’t agree to this statement on 83 riots, said “ it is easier for your generation to say so because you did not bare scars or memories of it”. He argues, that it is hard to let go of those painful memories. What I have learnt during my years of service in post war areas in north, is that, even though apologizing and forgiving does not erase the pains or thoughts, it will surely decrease the intensity of hurt and the mind would find it easy to reconcile with present. and it will definitely dissolve the silence. T his is not about the past but the present and the future of a nation which was shattered time to time with ethnic, religious hatred towards one another. ...
Stories from "the other end" — Living among them, working in the heart of the north where people struggled to heal and hoped to survive – This is my story.