Thursday, 20 August 2015

The Best Story That a Pakistani Can Tell About India?

I am from Pakistan, just returned from India after completing my studies there. I have a lot of stories to tell about my stay there. But the most interesting one goes like this. I had a friend there, we were classmates, lab mates, lunch mates, and prank mates. She being a typical staunch Indian supporter and me being a Pakistani. We had our own word battles every day about who was the best India or Pakistan. She even discussed this at home and often ended up getting scolded by her mom for befriending a Pakistani. But despite the scolding and the harsh fights her mom always packed lunch for me and even catered to our weekly Pharmaish of Kheer, Halwa, Rasgulle. The friends I made there were and are just my friends. Even today we talk, we laugh, we fight not as an Indian or a Pakistani but as two friends who are separated yet united.