Memoirs of a Hindu girl in Pakistan
I
grew up in fear – every face around me depicted
nothing but fear. I am sure that the first expression on my parent’s face on my
birth as a female child born to Hindu parents living in Kandhkot would have
been that of fear also. Why did I bring so much fear into the lives of my parents?
I grew up always wondering what is it about me that continues to terrify. But I
always drew a blank. How naïve I was.
Before
I knew it, the time to attend school had arrived. School was comfortable;
however, there were times when I felt like an outsider, finding it difficult to
gel in with rest of the majority. Perhaps the snide remarks and incidents of
discrimination led me to believe that I am not one of ‘them’. Of those
incidents, I still vividly remember no one eating with me and refusing to sip
from the cup I drank from.
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