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![]() To Pakistan, With Love India Today - 20 March 2006
The campaign indeed is getting a warm response from children. The message-scribbling event, organized by Silliphant in Ahmedabad last week, saw over 1,000 school children walk in groups from temples, churches, mosques, synagogues, and other places of worship to pour out their hearts on the huge letter at the Sabarmati Ashram. The messages varied in their sentiments and colour. One of them read "Build Bridges, not Walls", while another read "Peace between India and Pakistan has more beginnings than endings". A third was slightly terse: "Stop Terrorism, We are Friends." There were others that echoed universal sentiments like, "Let's join hearts in friendship. Together we can make a better world'. The best of the lot, however, were the lines written by Sakshi, a girl from Mumbai's Lilavati Poddar School: "Though I am yet to know your name, I hope my letter will find a friend in you..." The children felt happy to engage in such a campaign. As Sachi Mehta, a school child from Ahmedabad, put it: "It was very exciting. Such a powerful message of love can never get a negative response." The love letters to Pakistan are expected to swell to lakhs when Silliphant and his group cross the border. Says Mark Jacobs, a group member, "The power of just one child can change everything." Well said. |
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