Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that fol

1.	Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow. No, no! You can never be ours This is the third story the researcher related: I still vividly remember a man I met in Lahore in 1992. He mistook me to be a Pakistani studying abroad. For some reason he liked me. He urged me to return home after completing my studies to serve the qaum (nation). I told him I shall do so but, at some stage in the conversation, I added that my citizenship happens to be Indian. All of a sudden his tone changed, and much as he was restraining himself, he blurted out, “Oh Indian! I had thought you were Pakistani.” I tried my best to impress upon him that I always see myself as South Asian. “No, no! You can never be ours. Your people wiped out my entire village in 1947, we are sworn enemies and shall always remain so.” 1. Why did both Hindu and Muslim think the severe enemies of each other after partition? 2. What did the person advice to the muslim think the severe enemies of each other partition? 3. What did the Indian try to explain? Who was right and why?
Answer» 1.(a) During the partition there were large massacre. Both Hindus and Muslims killed each other. (b) There was not humanity among them- they considered themselves their fast enemeis. 2.(a) The person advised the researcher that he will return to his nation after completing his studies to serve his qaum. (b) He said like this because he has mistaken him to be a Pakistani studying abroad. 3.(a) The Indian tried to explain that he considered himself as a South Asian. (b) A south Asian may be a Pakistani or an Indian, it did not matter. (c) Both were right because they were angry with the bloodshed of 1947. Many people of their villages were infed out in this bloodshed.

Read the following excerpt carefully and answer the questions that follow. No, no! You can never be ours This is the third story the researcher related: I still vividly remember a man I met in Lahore in 1992. He mistook me to be a Pakistani studying abroad. For some reason he liked me. He urged me to return home after completing my studies to serve the qaum (nation). I told him I shall do so but, at some stage in the conversation, I added that my citizenship happens to be Indian. All of a sudden his tone changed, and much as he was restraining himself, he blurted out, “Oh Indian! I had thought you were Pakistani.” I tried my best to impress upon him that I always see myself as South Asian. “No, no! You can never be ours. Your people wiped out my entire village in 1947, we are sworn enemies and shall always remain so.” 1. Why did both Hindu and Muslim think the severe enemies of each other after partition? 2. What did the person advice to the muslim think the severe enemies of each other partition? 3. What did the Indian try to explain? Who was right and why?

Answer»

1.(a) During the partition there were large massacre. Both Hindus and Muslims killed each other.

(b) There was not humanity among them- they considered themselves their fast enemeis.

2.(a) The person advised the researcher that he will return to his nation after completing his studies to serve his qaum.

(b) He said like this because he has mistaken him to be a Pakistani studying abroad.

3.(a) The Indian tried to explain that he considered himself as a South Asian.

(b) A south Asian may be a Pakistani or an Indian, it did not matter.

(c) Both were right because they were angry with the bloodshed of 1947. Many people of their villages were infed out in this bloodshed.

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