To: Bilow who wrote (239 ) 12/17/2002 7:56:33 AM From: thames_sider Respond to I think my idea of him may have been spoiled by this throwaway sentence, on the mood in Lahore after Pakistani independence.my remembered Lahore, the city of forty years ago, was easy-going and accommodating towards its significant, mostly Catholic, religious minority; and I think even a Jew would have been acceptable, indeed welcomed as a curiosity. Shia and Sunni Muslims tended to despise one another, but no more than Protestants and Catholics did, in the good old days of our Orange parades. Shias, realizing they were in the minority, merely tended to avoid exhibitionism. Hindus and Sikhs had to be more positively discreet about themselves -- the few who had not joined the exodus to India at Partition. But that was the fallout of Partition. davidwarrenonline.com
