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INTERVIEW







                                                                          moment which is very disturbing be-
                                                                          cause we see India as a secular and
                                                                          democratic country. We have been
                                                                          seeing and also want to continue to
                                                                          see democracy in India and this is the
                                                                          country’s identity. India has many
                                                                          colors, many breeds, groups of all.
                                                                          There are people of diverse religions.
                                                                          The colors of Holi are the colors of
                                                                          India. There has also been a change
                                                                          in India and extreme right is being
                                                                          imposed in Pakistan and Imran is rein-
                                                                          forcing this label. If the same situation
                                                                          prevails, then a more difficult time may
                                                                          come for both the countries, which will
                                                                          directly affect the economies of both
                                                                          the countries.


                                                                          ‘There has been a
                                                                          change in India and
                                                                          extreme right is
                                                                          being imposed in
                                                                          Pakistan and Imran is
                                                                          reinforcing this label.

         stant marriage’ affair, rather it took six   Was the time between Nikah and   If the same situation
         months to happen. At that time, I felt   divorce very painful?   prevails, then a more
         that this person even didn’t know me   It was not like this for me. It cannot be
         and we were not even acquainted with   called painful. My first marriage was   difficult time is waiting
         each other. I didn’t see him even in any   so terrible that in this case it was very
         social event. I didn’t have any social cir-  good. He seemed a very good person   for both the countries’
         cle whereas his social circle was wider.   as a husband. But it was all fake. It was
         Then I said that I didn’t know him. Then   a drama. I had something else in front
         it was said that it is not so. You are de-  of me and something else behind my   This change is being seen all over
         nying the person whom all the women   back. But I never had a fight in what   the world. In England too, the
         want. They took two/three months and   was with me. But it was a hoax. It was   Conservative Party has won with a
         in August I gave my consent. Thereaf-  trickery and tricks were in his nature. I   thumping majority. Aren’t you too
         ter, some of his antics; wherein he had   used to think that my husband is very   surprised about it?
         a strange thing to say in the night and   happy with me, but when I started find-  I am not surprised because we were
         turn around in the day. Nikah’s date   ing out, I found something else.How   aware that a design of this type was
         was fixed and suddenly he said some-  can a person who lies in personal life   coming. It is a US policy.  Trump
         thing crazy, so I did not even have such   be okay with the country? People re-  embraces Modi and also promotes
         an interest, then I backed away. There-  peatedly say that it is all about personal   Imran. But we should focus on our
         after he took two/three months and   life. But their nature is such that they   country. We should first fix the rela-
         then in October he suddenly said that   can sacrifice anyone for the sake of the   tions between the two countries. If the
         it was necessary to go in for Nikah. I felt   chair (power).     US wants us to fight, then we need to
         that he had a dependency on a certain                            be sensible. The Britishers had already
         date that he should marry on that date.   Where do you see India-Pakistan   made us fight each other and there is an
         Nikah was also performed on the same   relations going in the future? Which   attempt repeat the past in future.
         date and divorce also happened on the   way should this relationship go?
         same date.                       India also has extreme right tilt at the         LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM


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