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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
– It’s the looters, gangsters, and squatters who are eying someone’s house, land, or gold and not a Hindu or Muslim. For these lowly people, it is just another day of loot. It does not matter whether a Hindu killed a Muslim or a Muslim killed a Hindu. For them, it’s another field day. Unfortunately, these people were being used as bait to divide us.
– Each invasion influenced the country’s culture as part of the natural evolution process, but the basic fabric never changed. It instead strengthened the Vedic philosophy, the main foundation of Hinduism.
– When politicians let their followers be butchered in the hands of their opponents for the sake of chair, humanity is traded like a commodity.
– Two partitioned, fractured, defeated and demoralised nations inherited scores of unresolved legacies of the past and a newborn constituency of refugees on both sides.
– The Radcliffe Line chiselled not only their villages and homes but also their soles and forever etched ‘refugee’ on their foreheads.
– Ammi Ji wept inconsolably when she held two gold bracelets that she had buried in her kitchen wall before leaving Mianwali eight years ago.
Sudhir Malik
I Am Not a Refugee is Sudhir Malik’s first novel—a fictionalised memoir of his father. Before this, he has written a few books on personal finance and investment avenues for Taxmann, a leading tax publisher. For almost three years, he has contributed a weekly column for The Hindustan Times titled ‘Save & Prosper’. As a share market analyst, he has also appeared in live shows of Zee (Business News)—a TV Channel, for almost a year and a half.
Recently he re-published a Devanagri transliteration of ‘Jang Naama’ – a collection of Urdu poetry written by his father, Late Sh. D. N. Malik (Raj Sarhadi).
Sudhir Malik is a qualified chartered accountant. For a living, he worked as an auditor, tax expert, and financial consultant catering to corporate restructuring, India entry strategies, transaction advisory services and infrastructure projects. He has worked in the green and blue infrastructure domains for almost a decade providing financial solutions in solid waste management, sewage and drainage systems, water body restoration, agriculture and health sector, Smart Cities, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Disaster Management, etc.
