As the Festive season beckons across Sth Asia. - recently Google created this wonderful Video Clip. - very emotional for those of us who have been fortunate enough to have met their Great Grandparents / Grandparents / Parents who experienced and reminisce of Partition and The loss of many of their Friendships & childhood experiences I can still hear my late Grandfather telling me stories like this - a Lost generation of the 1947 Partition. When I First visited Pakistan - thanks to my job, My grandfather had said to me to touch the ground and remember the souls of our ancestors. - to date I am the only member of my family to have been lucky enough to have visited Pakistan. I hope One day to re-visit and meet my many Rotary International friends such as Shehzad Ahmed and visit the city of Lahore properly & take part in a End Polio Now Immunisation event and then cross the border at Wagha Border : India - Pakistan and meet my friend Madhukar Malhotra and take part in a END Polio NOW Immunisation with him - its on my The Bucket List ... Perhaps we can celebrate by taking part in a very special Rotary: Worlds Greatest Meal to Help End Polio Its amazing how Rotary International enables friendship / fellowship - i count myself lucky to have so many friends & acquaintances..... Back to the Video Clip .... An advertisement by Google depicting two childhood friends who are tearfully reunited following their separation during the partition of India and Pakistan - The three minute video, titled Reunion, has racked up more than Twelve million hits since it was posted online It tells the story of two boys who were separated 66 years ago following the South Asian subcontinents independence from British colonial rule and its subsequent partition. The advertisement explains how the two friends are brought together again by their grandchildren using Google searches. After the India-based man tells his granddaughter about how he and his friend used to steal a sweet called jhajariya from a shop close to an old gate in Lahore, the girl uses the clues to search on Google and eventually tracks down his long-lost friend. youtu.be/gHGDN9-oFJE
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:23:41 +0000
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