WATCH | Salt Wounds Of India-Pak Border: Gujarat Since Partition

The India Pakistan border in Gujarat is invisible but heavily guarded and the villages here live under constant drone alerts, blackouts and surveillance.

Senaji Goyal, a resident, said that the people of the city have nothing to worry about. If the drone falls, it will fall on us and If the business and employment stops, it will be ours. He also added that our employment is being snatched away. Our trees, our animals, birds, plants and everything that we have taken care of for so many years is being snatched away. Everything is being destroyed.

Dalbeer Singh, a second-generation resident, remembers his father’s stories vividly. “My father always said we didn’t choose this place, that this place chose us,” he says. “He used to tell me how they had to run from their village in Pakistan with no idea where they would end up. They spent months in refugee camps in Delhi, sleeping under plastic sheets and praying for a home. Eventually, they were moved to Firozpur in Punjab. And some families were sent from there to here when this place had nothing but marshy land and broken promises.”

Reporter: Pritha Vashishth
Camera: Dinesh Parab
Editor: Madiha Shakeel

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00:00What do you think is that they will play?

00:02They will not be able to play.

00:04If the drone will die, then we will die.

00:07If the fire is closed, then we will die.

00:30Our daily lives are going to die.

00:32Our trees, our trees, our trees, our trees, our trees.

00:35We have been able to do so many years.

00:37We are going to die.

00:39There are 29 water bodies.

00:41There are trees and trees.

00:43They are all coming.

00:45They are going to die.

00:47We are going to talk about the youth.

00:49What do we understand?

00:51Our daily lives are going to die.

00:53We are also on the border.

00:55We have seen the difficulties of what will happen.

00:59We are going to die.

01:01They have been saying,

01:02No.

01:03They are not afraid.

01:06Their neighbors are still afraid.

01:08They are not afraid of us.

01:09We have been asked for the future of the situation.

01:11The pastoral vii also made us come to a poor place.

01:14We will be both about the modern people.

01:16We have arrived from the village of the village.

01:17We have come to the village of the village of the village.

01:19We have got Bished of the village and a village.

01:21We have no hope for the peninsula of the village.

01:23We have got the village of the village of the village,

01:25We have asked them,

01:26If you get a land in the village, you can ask us what we can do.

01:30We have to know the work of the land.

01:33Because the land of the land is not related to the land.

01:36We have to know the land.

01:38We have said that there is no water in the village.

01:41There will be trouble for us.

01:44We have to have trouble for us.

01:46Then the government government has given us the land.

01:50When the war started, when it happened,

01:54we went to the government.

01:57We were there.

01:58Then, we passed a few times in Punjab.

02:02Then, we went to the village.

02:04Then, we had a brother.

02:07We had a fellow of the world.

02:09He had been here.

02:13There was a lot of people who went there.

02:17But there was a lot of bad.

02:19There was no water, there was a jungle.

02:21There was no shelter.

02:23So that's why we left some, some left some, some left some after some came.

02:30Our generation was there.

02:33It was just a few times.

02:35We came back here and we stayed here.

02:37We didn't eat anything.

02:39We didn't eat anything.

02:41We didn't eat anything.

02:43We didn't eat anything.

02:45We stayed here and stayed here.

02:47Where did we go to the other side?

02:53Amen.

WATCH | Salt Wounds Of India-Pak Border: Gujarat Since Partition

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