Indi-Paki Bhai-Bhai

Today I uploaded the final batch of the designing work that I had done in college to DA(http://visualcerebration.blogspot.com) . And some of them were fav'd by people. While going through the comments I came across this man who is a Paki and had fav'd one of my works. Now, what is the problem with a Pakistani fav'ing an Indian's work, that's what you are thinking right? Ask the fundamentalists. They will tell you.

Anyhow, the big deal is not that. The point is that the particular piece was patriotic in nature. The event for which I had designed the stuff had the theme 'Iceberg India'. So, I'm feeling great, because one of my works which was mildly patriotic in nature has been liked by someone belonging to our neighbouring country with whom we have not been on good terms, and that person openly expressed it. The person must be appreciated for being objective enough to appreciate the Art.

These are signs(I know I'm extrapolating, and, a lot) that changes in technology and new communication media in the future may improve the relationship between the two countries. So we may have a day when we can say Indi-Paki Bhai-Bhai :)

One of my friends recently told me, "Man, you really do live in a world of fiction." I hope that is not the case at least as far as this is concerned.

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Ironically, today itself, in a similar fashion, I had a conversation with another Pakistani. A teenaged girl who is a brilliant photographer and aspiring to be a novelist. She's from Karachi, a city far from the Talibanised areas of Pakistan. I asked her about the situation there. "everyone's alive!", she wrote, followed  by a Big Grin emoticon. I wonder whether that grin represented a sigh of relief or sarcasm!