Since our childhood we have heard many stories about India and Pakistan, some heartwarming while some that can send chill down our spine.
Our grandparents have often narrated us tales about them living through the India-Pakistan partition. Each of these stories teaches us some incredible lesson.
Here’s one such incredible tale shared by a woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page and it’s a beautiful love story as well.
This is a story of a grandmother, who now has five children and 15 grandchildren. She recalls her time in Pakistan and remembers the moment she met the love of her life.
“I first met him when I was at my sister-in-law’s house somewhere around 1930 in Lahore,” she says in the post.
She got married during partition and started her life from scratch in India. In the post she narrates how when communal hatred was at its peak, a Muslim friend helped them escape.
“As time went by and Independence was around the corner he asked me to marry him saying that ‘war was inevitable and he couldn’t bear the thought of being separated from me.”
Since then the couple started their life together and they also revisited Pakistan.
Though now her husband is no longer alive, she says how he has left a lifetime of memories that can keep her going.
Read the post below to know how they met and stayed together through thick and thin.
“I first met him when I was at my sister-in-law’s house somewhere around 1930 in Lahore. In those times, we couldn’t...
Posted by Humans of Bombay on Sunday, February 14, 2016
