Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, died. The country was plunged into mourning. Everyone went around with black armbands. Kabir watched them in silence with tears rolling down his cheeks. So much cloth for so many armbands. It could have covered the hungry and the naked, he said to the mourners. You are a communist. they said. You are a fifth columnist. You are a traitor to Pakistan. And for the first time, Kabir laughed that day. But my friends, I am wearing no armband, black, green or red. - Saadat Hasan Manto (as translated by Khalid Hasan)
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 08:15:09 +0000
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