Date: 10/4/2003
IN 1950 THEY ENACTED THE CONSTITUTION OF TRUNCATED INDIA. MANY INDIANS HAD THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD BE A CLAUSE IN IT DEMONSTRATING PARTITIONED INDIA'S ASPIRATION TO A UNITED INDIA ONCE AGAIN, ON THE LINES OF THE WEST GERMAN CONSTITUTION, ENACTED TWO YEARS EARLIER.
IN THE SAME YEAR THEY ERECTED THE STATUE OF MR. MK GANDHI IN THE MIDDLE OF RAJENDRA LAKE IN THE CITY OF PATIALA.
LOOKING AT IT, A HINDU REFUGEE FROM LAHORE SAID IN DISGUST AND ANGER, "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS S.O.B. DOING HERE? DIDN'T HE AGREE TO THE PARTITION OF INDIA AND THE SURRENDER OF MY LAHORE TO THE MOHAMMED OF ARABIA?"
SAYING HIS CURSES ON BAPU GANDHI, THE HINDU WALKED ON. BUT A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY HE WAS ARRESTED BY A POLICEMAN WHO HAD SEEN HIM HURL HIS SPIT ON THE ANOINTED GANDHI STATUE.
"YOU INSULTED THE FATHER OF NATION," SHOUTED THE POLICEMAN.
THE HINDU IN HANDCUFFS REPLIED, "BUT DIDN'T YOUR FATHER OF NATION SPIT ON LAHORE, KARACHI AND THE WHOLE OF EAST BENGAL, TOO?"
..AT THIS POINT THE POLICEMAN SUDDENLY DECIDED TO LET HIM GO. THAT POLICEMEAN WAS MY FATHER, HIMSELF A REFUGEE FROM LYALLPUR.
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