Their soldiers may be standing along the northern and western borders looking eye-to-eye with fingers well trenched on the triggers of most sophisticated rifles and canons. But the Indian scientists ensure the safety of Pakistan from natural disasters like tsunamis and cyclones!

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I recently wrote a blog post titled ‘An Indian who moved to Pakistan‘. The response I got – positive and negative – is much appreciated. It inspired me to write this piece about my dream of a world without borders and wars.

Before I begin, however, I want to make clear that I do not have any desire to undermine the sovereign and political borders between India and Pakistan or between any other countries. My dream is to erase the psychological borders that are etched in our minds in the shape of prejudices and hatred towards the other.

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For the last few years news reports about violence, extremism, mistreatment of minorities, and poor governance have been become more frequent. And there is a sense of gloom and doom about the nation’s future among Pakistani peace activists and civil society members.

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Everything was planned and we were supposed to meet finally after six years of Orkut, MSN and Facebook connection. I was sitting in the Berlin metro line looking at the map of the city and the piece of paper where I chalked out the route to his home. He calls and tells me that he is waiting at the metro station. I get down at the said station and look around for him, I cannot find him, I try to call him up, I hear someone calls my name and turn around … I see him… it was like little fraction of Euphoria.

On the escalator leading out of the station he says to me, “so from a facebook picture to a real person.”  I don’t know whether I was mesmerized or lost I could just say “yeah”.

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Gandhi opposed the creation of Pakistan. Such opposition was based on his conviction that Hindus and Muslims and other communities could live together and make their particular contributions to building a multi-religious, multi-cultural nation with equal rights for all citizens. However, when partition did take place he took positions that have no parallels, historically or contemporaneously.

There is no doubt that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi brought religion into politics in a big way, but religious revivals were underway among all religious communities of India since the late 19th century. He wanted religion to play a positive role in bringing India’s myriad of religious, sectarian, ethnic and caste-based communities into an inclusive grand composite nation.

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