Hindu Pani, Muslim Pani

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Re: Hindu Pani, Muslim Pani

@Ali_Syed

I once met some one from Hyderabad, India and he said that there’s segregation of people in India. Like shudars cannot live in the areas of Brahmins, similarly muslims cannot live in separate localities. Therefore most of the castes are confined in their own areas. Is this phenomena prevalent in some areas or most of India?

The Hindu : Of Hindu Pani, Muslim Pani

Stepping in next was Sahitya Akademi award winning Punjabi author Ajeet Cour. She read out her short story “Happy New Year” translated into English by Khushwant Singh.
“We all are so used to black comedy. So I thought let there be black humour of tolerance today”, said the writer of “Khana Bados”. She continued, "This occasion reminds me of a childhood incident. While we were in a train to India after Partition, I as a child was quite perplexed to see at the railway stations separate drinking water facilities for Hindu and Muslim communities. Seeing Hindu Pani' and Muslim Pani’, I asked my mother, is there any `Muslim Hawa’ also"? And, there arose a collective sigh from the audience.

Ali things may have got better with the paasage of time as we see that there is no such distinction followed in western countries, where Muslims and Hindu work together and as the kaur mentioned Indian governments introduced systems like payo to eradicate this, but again we can make all good laws and arrangements to promote harmony, but biases rooted down in pshchology of human beings can not be easily done away with