On 15th August 2021, Kabul fell under the hands of the Taliban. After two decades. We have seen the plight of ordinary Afghan men, women, and children to leave Afghanistan. It was hard for the rest of the world to understand what they were going through at that moment. The looming uncertainty of the ordinary Afghans was unprecedented. The entire incident took me 74 years ago - 15th August 1947, the day India gained its freedom with the cost of partition of the Indian sub-continent.
I was trying to understand what Indians felt on the morning of 15th August 1947, especially the displaced ones. They were free from British rule but lost everything. The world witnessed a mass migration on an epic scale. Did the morning of 15th August (1947) bring any hope to the displaced ones? Were they felt liberated? Many of them lived in abject poverty. The pains of partition are still present among many.
In Afghanistan's case, it is Americans. And in India's case, it was British. Western allies don't understand third-world countries. British hastily left India and now America did this with Afghans.
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