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The Nightmare of War and The Love We Cannot See

"The nightmare of war and the love we cannot see" is an anti-war fiction. It is about pride, hatred, ambition, love and destruction of the world.

May 1, 2019  |   18 min read

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Prologue:

3rd April 1971 –

Pakistan, allied with Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other Muslim countries, declared war against India in order to free Kashmir from Indian occupation. A number of battles were fought in Kutch, Jaisalmer, Sialkot, Lahore, Srinagar, Chandigarh and other cities.

16th December 1971 –

Combined forces of OIC fought the final battle at the gates of Delhi. Delhi surrendered.

19th December 1971 –

There are two reasons why this day was important —

A humiliating treaty was imposed on India, the Treaty of Allahabad. According to which half of Kashmir was to be given to Pakistan, only areas of Jammu and Ladakh were given to India, that too under the condition of demilitarization.

A boy was born in Sirsa, Haryana, to a farmer, who will shape the future of not just South Asia but of the whole world.

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While Delhi was surrendering to the might of the Islamic forces, a boy was born in Haryana to a Saraswat Brahmin, Rajinder Saraswat. During the war, he served on various fronts in Lahore, Amritsar and Chandigarh, before getting critically injured and retiring from the front.

Before the war, Rajinder was a member of Bharatiya Swayamsevak Sangh and was an ardent follower of Hinduism. He believed in the idea of “Akhand Bharat”, which consisted of the whole of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, and Afghanistan till the river Helmond.

The defeat of India in 1971 war had a great impact on him. When his son was born on 19th December 1971, he was convinced that what he couldn’t do, his son would accomplish. He named his son – Vijay Saraswat, on the name of Operation Vijay under which he fought on various fronts.

For the next 20 years, he taught his son Vedas, Puranas, Arthashastra, Dharmic shastras, Manusmriti, etc. He taught his son about the glorious history of India
under Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka, Kanishka, Samudragupta, Maharana Pratap and many more. He wanted his son to clear NDA and induct in Indian Army, but unfortunately Vijay wasn’t physically fit for the Indian Army. He gave a number of attempts but kept on failing.

For Rajinder, the next best option was that his son would complete his graduation and then get into the army clearing CDS exam. But again, his weak personality didn’t let him to clear the physical and medical test. What Rajinder didn’t realize was that although Vijay might not be physically fit, mentally he is as cunning as Chanakya or MK Gandhi. As a matter of fact, Rajinder forgot a very basic teaching that battles aren’t fought physically but ideologically.

After a number of attempts in NDA and CDS, Rajinder gave up. But Vijay still knew what his father dreamt of. He decided to appear for UPSC exam and become a civil servant, and from there he aspired to accomplish his father’s goals.

In 1994, Vijay graduated from JNU in public administration. In the same year, his father died of cancer. Even on his deathbed, Rajinder told his son not to forget 1971 and the idea of Akhand Bharat.

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After his father’s death, Vijay decided to move to Delhi for the preparation of UPSC exam. He attempted his 1st exam in 1995 but unfortunately couldn’t clear. He reappeared in 1996 but the result was the same. To help his family of five economically, Vijay decided to teach at coaching institutes in 1996.

There for the first time, he met Inaya Khan, a Muslim girl born to a noble family who wanted their daughter to continue their family trend. There is no need to tell the readers that Vijay fell in love with her, the very first time he saw her. By April
1997, even Inaya knew what Vijay felt for her, and somehow, she was also in love with him. In 1997 UPSC exam, both of them went to the interview stage, but both were not selected.

It pushed Vijay into depression for two reasons – first, Inaya’s family engaged her to a Pakistani General’s son, Javed. Secondly, repeated failure in NDA, CDS and now in UPSC exam pushed him to poverty. These two failures at two fronts – love and career – would shape his upcoming future.

Meanwhile, after a chaotic 1987 J&K legislative elections, Pakistan eyed on capturing the whole of Jammu & Kashmir. And for that, they pushed Soviet-Afghan war veterans “Mujahideen” in India J&K.

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After failing at clearing UPSC exam, Vijay decided to return to his village and help his brothers in farming. There he also joined local BSS HQ of Sirsa.

He started blaming the world for his failures. He was convinced that in order to avenge his past failure and to accomplish his father’s goal, this world needed to be cleansed of humans so that peace could be brought to the people who would survive this cleansing.

In 1998, Vijay launched a local newspaper “Akhand Bharat”. There he wrote powerful speeches on how India got partitioned in 1947, how a particular a community is to be blamed for 1971 defeat, the idea of united India and how to achieve unification of the Indian subcontinent, etc.

In 1999, Pakistan’s army intruded in the Kargil region of Kashmir in order to achieve goals it has aspired since 1987. Their objectives were simple – separate Muslim majority region of J&K from rest of India and, thereby, capture 50% area of Indian J&K. However, learning from past mistakes, the Indian army defeated the Pakistani army on all the major fronts. And within two months, Indian
won the war.

While the war was fought for territorial gains and had nothing to do with religion, Vijay decided to write blistering articles in his journals on how Islamic countries wanted to accomplish their objective of “Ghazwa-e-Hind” and how Hindus would be persecuted if once again Islamic rule is established in northern India.

To his surprise, his articles had a great impact on his readers and his organization (BSS). BSS chief decided to push Vijay to contest the election of Haryana and become Chief Minister of the state. In the beginning, Vijay was reluctant to contest the election but soon he obliged. In 2000, he formed Akhand Bhartiya Jansangh Party (ABJP).

Meanwhile, there is also an interesting story behind a long braid “Shikha/chotti” of Vijay. Many accounts tell us that he kept it in order to show fellow Hindu brethren that they shouldn’t be ashamed of showing their Hindu identity in front of the world. But in reality, he wanted to look different from rest of the great leaders as he believed that all the great leaders of past had something unique in their physical appearances like mustache, dressing style, beard, etc.

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Haryana, as a state, since 1947 was under the rule of Indian National Congress. Vijay knew it will be impossible for him to defeat INC in Haryana unless he has a strong agenda. For this he decided to raise a long dead topic, Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. As he was a student of History during his preparation of UPSC, he knew that the main reason behind OIC victory in 1971 was the mobilization of Muslim sentiments against non-Muslims. He was convinced that only the mobilization of Hindu sentiments on the topic of Ram Mandir could end INC government, not only in Haryana but also across India. Therefore, he decided to
hatch a conspiracy.

In 2002, he persuaded his fellow party members (Maharashtra chief Pranav Chavan, Gujarat Chief Janam Patel, and Rajasthan’s chief Akash Gehlot) to publish a number of articles on Ram Janambhoomi in Ayodhya – how Muslim invaders destroyed Hindu temple in Ayodhya and why Ram temple should be built at same land on which Babri Masjid was built. Within a year, he got millions of letters from Hindu brethren who accepted his views and wanted to help him in whatever way he wanted.

On 1st December 2003, Vijay asked Pranav and Janam to lead a “rath yatra” to Ayodhya in order to pressurize central government to accept the demands of Ram Mandir. The yatra started on 5th December and on 6th December 2004 Babri Masjid was demolished by the mobs mobilized by Pranav and Janam. Following this, riots erupted in many parts of India. A number of cases were filed against Pranav and Janam under NSA Act for disturbing communal harmony and ABJP was banned by the central government (led by INC).

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In 2007, SC of India declared the ban against ABJP to be unconstitutional and acquitted Janam & Pranav for lack of evidence. Vijay, now with full enthusiasm decided to fight in the election of Haryana, Maharashtra & Gujarat in 2008. In 2008, plans of Vijay to mobilize Hindu sentiments succeeded – ABJP governments were formed in Haryana, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.

In order to win Lok Sabha elections of 2009, Vijay continued to hatch conspiracies at the highest level in the name of Ram Janambhoomi. But all this was not enough to defeat INC. And in 2009, ABJP lost the general election to INC. This also made it clear to Vijay that he would never win an election of Lok Sabha with just the name of Lord Rama. Therefore, it
was the time for some introspection.

In 2010, Vijay met Shashikant who was an old colleague of his. Shashikant had also appeared for UPSC exam along with Vijay in the early 1990s. Soon, Shashi persuaded Vijay to contact his old buddies who cleared UPSC and other bureaucrats in order to get information related to corruption of INC in last 3 decades.

Vijay accepted Shashi’s suggestions and contacted many of his ex-colleagues and other bureaucrats.

Govind Rai, 1982 batch IAS officer, then CAG of India.

Sunil Chaudhary, 1992 batch IRS officer, then CBDT Director.

OP Sharma, 1986 batch IAS officer, ex-chief secretary under UPA-I.

After many meetings with them, Vijay and Shahi convinced them and made a deal with them to reward them if Vijay comes to power in 2014. It was the time for another conspiracy.

Vijay leaked a number of files on the allocation of 2G spectrum and coal field allocation. Although there was no scam he persuaded Govind Rai to publish a CAG report on the scam in such allocations. Govind Rai did his part, he published a report with an arbitrary scam value of Rs 4 lakh crore in 2G and Coal allocations.

Such a publication of false figures by a constitutional body was enough for Vijay to publish articles in his newspaper and other media houses newspapers, where INC could be defamed. And soon, he got the support of the whole of India against INC. In 2014, ABJP won a complete majority over their counterparts.

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With a big win, a big part of Vijay’s father’s dream was now accomplished. Now the fate of India and the world lay at the doorsteps of Vijay’s PMO. Prime Minister Vijay’s objectives were known only to Shashi who like him wanted a united India and with much less population; although he wasn’t as mad as Vijay.

Therefore, in order
to achieve his goals, PM Vijay decided to appoint ministers who would never question his decision and would always remain loyal to him. Dr. Janam Patel was made Home Minister, Pranav Chavan was made Defence Minister, Sushma Singh was given External Affairs ministry, and Daya Sinha was made Finance minister.

Vijay knew that if he wanted a victory over Pakistan on Kashmir issue, he needed to achieve a number of things – a division of OIC; support of USA, Russia, and EU; pressurize China to not interfere in the conflict. For this, he took a no. of steps –

Repeated visits to the USA & Russia and the conclusion of defense deals with them.

Admitting Chinese companies in his Make in India campaign, reduction of trade deficit with them.

Sowing seeds of Shia-Sunni in OIC and thereby creating a rift b/w Iran and Saudi. Terror attacks on Iranian defense force through covert operations by RAW and blaming Pakistani extremist groups for the same.

Attacking the Pakistani army in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region by provoking Pashtun to fight for their land.

Enlargement of the navy in order to restrict foreign navies engagement in the Indian ocean.

Building huge defense infrastructure at the border and in the inland for upcoming war and so on.

Vijay decided to fight a great war, a war which will end all wars, in 2019 just before the 2019 general elections. For the general public support, he instructed his ABJP IT cell to keep arousing general Hindu sentiments against Muslim and build an environment where people will give him total support for total war.

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After 3 years of coming into power, PM Vijay decided to test his military power. But for this, he needed to have an excuse for military action. In September 2016, a terrorist attack was allowed to happen on a military base
camp in Uri, J&K under the guise of intelligence failure. In this attack, 18 soldiers were martyred and 12 were injured. It provoked Indian public sentiments who wanted to avenge the deaths of army personnel. International responses were also against Pakistan. PM Vijay got his excuse for using the military. In November 2016, Indian army paratroopers crossed LOC and destroyed 2 base camps of terrorists and killed 19 soldiers of Pakistan army. Pakistan didn’t retaliate under the international pressure.

Pakistan’s non-retaliation encouraged Vijay to go for an all-out war with Pakistan to get back the territory India lost in 1971, thereby avenging 1971 and his past love. In February 2019, another suicide attack was allowed to happen, in which 45 soldiers were killed.

PM Vijay now ordered Indian Airforce to strike hard at Pakistan army units in the name of attacking terrorist’s HQ in Balakot. On 26th February, IAF conducted air raids in Pakistan which provoked Pakistan’s population for war. On 27th February, Pakistani Govt. with the backing of Chinese Govt. gave India an ultimatum to apologize for the air strikes; otherwise, Pakistan would be in a state of war with India. PM Vijay completely ignored such ultimatum.

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On 1st March 2019, Pakistan officially declared war against by raiding Indian airfields across North India. Operation Sher-e-Dil was started by Pakistan’s defense forces against India. Just 30 days before general elections, PM Vijay declared emergency in India and Operation Vijay was started with the aim not limited to take back lost territories of J&K but also to capture Islamabad and thereby achieve unification of India “Akhand Bharat”.

Soon, Pakistan got backing of Islamic world except for Iran and China. China decided to help Pakistan materially by sending it weapons and diplomatically by bringing sanctions against India in UNSC. China’s diplomatic moves were countered by
India through the support of USA, UK, Russia, and France. Therefore, now the only thing India needed to fight against was China’s material support.

Within 2 months, the Indian army won on every front. The good news was coming from Sind, Hyderabad, Lahore, and Muzaffarabad. Indian Army reached the outskirts of Islamabad, which forced the Pakistani government to shift the capital to Peshawar. It appeared that India would soon win the war by capturing the whole of Pakistan.

But as PM Vijay Saraswat’s evil plan were not just limited to Akhand Bharat but also to the cleansing of the human race from the world. He had a need to find a way to indulge NATO in the conflict between the two nations. He knew if he somehow compelled China to start a war with India, this would automatically force the hands of the USA to enter into the war. Therefore, he asked his generals to bomb the Karakorum Highway in order to stop all the material help Pakistan was getting from China. Although this suggestion was objected by all the generals because it would provoke China to start a war with India, soon they obliged and the highway was bombed.

China in retaliation without giving an ultimatum to Indian Govt. decided to bomb army base camps in Ladakh, Doklam and decided to push in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. This also pushed Nepal and Bhutan to ally with India to fight Chinese forces. Chinese Navy harbored at Djibouti was ordered to cut off oil supply lines to India. Hence, PM’s insistence on bombing Chinese infrastructure in Pakistan pushed the country to fight a two-front war.

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Until the official entry of China, India was almost about to win the war but all of a sudden the movement of Indian army stopped on the western
front and eastern frontier has gone blitz. Chinese forces bombed eastern air force command and within months captured Siliguri corridor thereby cutting off the whole of Northeast from the mainland.

Bangladesh since the start of the war had remained neutral. But now it also realized that it will have to take one of the sides. Bangladeshi Govt. under Khaleda Hasina decided to take side with Pakistan-China allies. This decision provoked PM Vijay to start a war against Bangladesh in order to continue supplying North-Eastern states.

Saudi Arabia soon obliged to the demands of Pakistani Govt. to officially enter the war. This provoked Iran to take side with India and fight Saudi and Pakistan in order to maintain the power balance. Joint armies of Pakistan and Saudi pushed two fronts of Iran and eastern front against India. Indian navy, too, couldn’t stand against the might of the Chinese navy and began to crumble.

All this made it very clear to PM Vijay that he needed to provoke the western hemisphere to take India’s side. He used his old tool to make the USA take side with India. He ordered INS Arihant, a nuclear submarine, to sink a US ship in Indian Ocean when INS Kolkata would visit the US naval base at Diego Garcia. His plan was to blame China for this attack and this would give enough reason for the US to start a war with China. The USA and its allies were too looking for an excuse to fight Chinese aggressive Govt. in South-China Sea and the Indian Ocean. Trade wars with China had already built an anti-Chinese environment in the USA.

So, a conspiracy was hatched by RAW and CIA to sink an old destroyer of the USA in Chicago. 7th December 2019, USS Abraham Lincoln was sunk and China was blamed
for this. Although China kept on denying its role in this attack, on 8th December 2019, the US ordered its 7th fleet headquartered in Japan to retaliate against Chinese aggression. 4 Chinese destroyers and 1 aircraft carrier Liaoning were sunk by the US Navy in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

The entry of the USA in the war was a boon for PM Vijay who was facing defeats on both western and eastern fronts. He soon took a number of steps –

He banned all opposition parties who were making anti-war speeches. Their leaders were imprisoned.

All anti-govt.-anti-war publications by media houses were made strictly illegal.

He decided to shift the capital to Nagpur, far from both the fronts.

He made conscription necessary.

He made Shashi his Information & Broadcasting Minister (Propaganda Minister) and asked him to make people ready for total war.

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The world by in January 2020, had 3 blocs –

Pakistan, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, and its neighboring countries.

India and all SAARC countries except Pakistan, the USA and all its NATO members, Myanmar, Thailand, and other South-East Asian countries.

Neutral countries – African countries, South American countries, and Oceanic island countries.

The only country missing in above blocs was Russia, which although an ally of India, didn’t come in full support to India in the war. They had two reasons for this – one, they didn’t want to involve themselves in a clash with neighboring Muslim countries and China, second, the involvement of USA ruled out any possibility of Russia joining Indian camp. Therefore, they prepared themselves for war but didn’t want to take part in it voluntarily.

Involvement of NATO forces in the war opened a big front in the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea between middle-eastern countries & European countries. Each of these countries had their political aspirations of gaining
territories at the cost of their adversaries. One such aspiration led to the entry of Russia in the war, thereby escalating WW3 geographically.

Ukraine in 2014 lost Sevastopol/Crimea to Russia after the Crimean crisis and was long awaited for a chance to avenge themselves against the Russians. On 22 June 2020, Ukrainian navy attacked the Crimean naval base of Russia. The military strike on Russian naval base was huge and it led to the death of 10000 Russians and many Russian ships were sunk.

Russia on 23rd June 2020 declared war on Ukraine and its allies, thereby, joining Chinese camp.

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What began as a regional conflict between two countries in 2019 became a world war by 2020. World map changed significantly by September 2020.

Indian defense forces captured 60% of Pakistan – the whole of Sind, Punjab, parts of Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The war here had now turned ugly because of guerrilla tactics of the Pakistani army which was hitting Indian posts in occupied Pakistani territories.

Iran lost its western territories to the Saudi led coalition.

China was facing a serious reversal in North Korea but gained upper hand in South-East Asia.

The USA and its European allies were now fully engaged in naval battles in Pacific, territorial battles in Europe where Russian armies were marching across the plains of Eastern Europe.

The only thing which didn’t happen in the last 15 months of warfare was the use of nukes. There was an unsigned convention between countries against the use of nukes. Pakistan shifted its strategic nukes to the Hindu Kush Mountains and it compelled the Indian army to keep chasing these rather than helping Iran on its western front.

During these guerrilla attacks and other counter-intelligence operations, many Pakistanis were taken into custody and they were subjected to utmost brutality at the hands of Indian intelligence
services. One of such POW was Inaya Khan.

After her marriage to Javed, she took up Pakistani citizenship and lived with him in Rawalpindi. In post-marital years too, she remembered the time she spent with Vijay during her preparation years. But what she didn’t know was Vijay had changed drastically since 1998. After Vijay became PM, she believed that he would bring peace to the region but was devastated to know what Vijay had in his mind.

In the early months of the war, her husband Javed died. Then, she joined the Pakistani army and decided to avenge her husband’s death.

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By April 2021, devastating air raids on Hindu Kush Mountains by Indian Air Force made it clear to Pakistani regime that they will now have to use their tactical nuke missiles in order to stop the Indian aggression.

In May 2021, a number of such missiles were fired on Indian troops stationed in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, and Faisalabad. These attacks provoked response from Indian PM. PM Vijay decided not to concentrate its troops at one location and decided to nuke Hindu Kush Mountains. And he asked RAW to shift all the Pakistani POW with vital information on Pakistani nukes to Delhi.

And hence, after 25 years, he once again met Inaya Khan. He was devastated to see the condition of Inaya. Inaya was tortured for the past many months by intelligence officials. Vijay ordered to shift her to the finest government medical facility for a speedy recovery and asked the RAW chief to take action against the people who did this.

Meanwhile, India started using tactical nukes missiles on Hindu Kush Mountains, thereby, creating serious issues for the Pakistani regime. Pakistan’s PM Imran Shah decided to strike Delhi with a ballistic nuclear missile. It was the most crucial period of the war; he knew
the Chinese & the Russians would never allow him to launch a nuclear missile.

On 6th August 2021, 15 ballistic nuclear missiles struck Delhi, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Gandhinagar, Bhopal, and other places. In this lone attack, 80 million people died. It was this time that PM Vijay’s eyes got open and he began to realize his mistake. His defense minister Pranav asked him to give orders to retaliate but he turned down his request. His home minister Janam Patel got irritated with the decision and asked Shashi to persuade Vijay to take leave for a few months and hand over the authority to someone else. Finally, Vijay agreed only with the condition that no nukes will be launched. Janam Patel was made Acting PM of India.

On 9th August 2021, Janam gave order to the strategic command to launch nukes against Saudi, Pakistan, and China. On that day, 25 Agni-V missiles struck various places including Beijing, Riyadh, Kabul, Qandahar, Shanghai, and others. It then started a chain reaction, which many intellectuals had feared.

China retaliated with its nukes against USA, India and European countries. And then, the launch of nukes by the USA against Russia, China and others. Soon.

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By the end of July 2021, 70 million people died because of the use of conventional weapons. But by the end of August 2021, 2 billion people died because of the use of nukes. Many cities which were once the center of attraction were laid waste to nuclear winter. Around 3 billion people were affected because of nuclear radiation.

But what was surprising was PM Vijay didn’t know about any of it. After taking leave for a few months, he took Inaya to Kerala for her treatment. Inaya, who still was unconscious didn’t know where she was. In September, Inaya woke up after 2 months
of medical treatment. She was enraged to see Vijay and tried to kill him with a surgical knife but her medical condition didn’t allow her to do so.

Seeing her in this state left Vijay in agony and he was now feeling guilty for whatever he did in the last 25 years. Two days later, he again went to see her and this time he apologized to her. Although Inaya didn’t forgive him but was satisfied that he was at least realizing his mistakes. She told him if he wanted her to forgive him, he had to correct his mistakes by bringing peace to the region. Vijay agreed.

Vijay left Kerala for Delhi to decide peace terms with neighbors.

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After reaching Delhi, Vijay was enraged to know that Janam had launched nukes and the follow-up events. He immediately took the charge and asked Janam to resign from all ministerial post and he also filed a case against him for the decisions he took in his absence. Along with Janam, Vijay also expelled Pranav, Aakash, and others who supported Janam in his decision.

He released all the opposition members who were imprisoned for the last 2 years and the Army chief was told to suspend all operations. He also called a press conference where he asked his enemies to come to the table to discuss peace. He asked President Khrushchev to persuade the leadership of Pakistan, China, and other countries to halt all hostilities.

Within a week, President Gump called on leaders of all nations to come to UN General Assembly to once again establish world peace. On 6th November 2021, a treaty was signed by all countries to disband military build-up, complete denuclearisation, and open border between all countries. It was a joint effort by all countries to counter nuclear winters and radiations and
others.

On 9th November, PM Vijay returned to India and resigned from the post of Prime Minister and declared his retirement from active politics. Next day, he went to Kerala to visit Inaya but only to find Inaya died on 7th November and left a note for him.

She quoted –

“Sometimes war may become the only resort available, but never try to justify it by saying that it’s the right thing to do because war is never the right thing to do, no matter how right you feel. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who’s going to die – you don’t know whose children are going to scream and burn – how many hearts will be broken – how many lives will be shattered – how much blood will spill until everybody does what they are always going to have to do from the very beginning. Just sit down, talk and try to understand each other beyond the petty little differences born from instinctual tribalism.”

“You took my world and left me nothing. But in the end, all that I have, I leave to you. That is my forgiveness.”

On 21st November, Vijay visited Ahmedabad from where he decided to start peace walk to Islamabad. Unfortunately, his former colleagues (Janam, Pranav, Shashi and others) decided to assassinate him for betraying the cause of Hindutva.

On 30th November 2021, an unknown shooter shot Vijay thrice just before he was about to start his peace walk from Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad.

“Akhand Bharat ain’t about geographical unification but a concept of the heart, of a united family.”

– Former PM Vijay Saraswat.

 

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