The Indian side of the border. A spanking new complex in the pipeline. It is a daily affair, of public display of brotherly rivalry. The old wound of a state that was curved at will at a stroke of a pen. As the sun sets, both nations remind themselves they are of one DNA but two divided by politics and religion. It has become a ritual to irritate and provoke either side with their high flying kicking drills, the heaving of chests at each other and theatrical display of mocked emotions. Even though similar ceremonies are carried at two other border towns, the one at the trunk road between two sister cities, Amritsar and Lahore take the cake. They share a strong bond. Maharajah Ranjit Singh who united the states in Land of Five Rivers (Punjab) and held the honour of being the only force in the history of mankind to tame the hill tribes of Afghanistan, made Lahore his capital and honoured his guardian religion by building a golden outlook to the Hari Mandhir to see it as ...
It is all Mimesis