We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.
Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the closed windows. We were hungry and our throats parched. From inside the train we heard voices travelling up and down the platform, saying, __indu paani,_ and, from the other side, __uslim paani._ Apart from land and population, even the water had now been divided
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Every time the train stopped at a station, we would all hold our breath, making sure not a single sound drifted out of the closed windows. We were hungry and our throats parched. From inside the train we heard voices travelling up and down the platform, saying, __indu paani,_ and, from the other side, __uslim paani._ Apart from land and population, even the water had now been divided
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