Anurag Jain's Blog
Saturday, July 12, 2003

A history of Conjoined Twin sisters: India and Pakistan

India and Pakistan are conjoined twins and the common vein joining them together is J & K. The twins were born in Aug 1947. The British doctor overseeing the birth operation deliberately left the common vein in place and didn't attempt to remove it. Now, after 56 years, its too complicated, too late and too risky for the twins to go for an operation.
Right from birth, instead of blaming the British doctors and trying to find a solution, the twins became bitter towards each other. Desire to have to do nothing with each other took roots early on in both minds. They turned their faces away from each others. But as it is with all conjoined twins, they could not afford to ignore each other either. That resulted in flagrant confrontations over the decades. Over the years, more than her own development, Pakistan became more and more obsessed with harming her twin sister India. (It is said that India has lots of issues to deal with including the one of Pakistan, but Pakistan only has one issue: India.) India, on the other hand, too did not do much to take care of the conjoining vein which was swelling due to disillusionment with India for her lack of attention to it. The vein over the years has gone worse and needs medical attention.

The good news is that the twins have started to talk to each other once again after a long history of embitterment. Now, only if somebody would 'separate' them by appeasing the common gland.

(The only difference from human conjoined twins is that in this case, the common gland needs more attention than the twins themselves.)
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