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Social networking sites have made our world a smaller place to live. Neighbours have become closer. We get to connect to people more than we could do earlier.For us Indians, the closest neighbour is projected as our biggest enemy. Politics and Religion have divided the two countries in a bitter way. Despite many similarities, we keep safe distance from each other.But the recent Reddit chat between Indians and Pakistanis is the best thing you will come across today. It shows how we have the same root to which we both can connect to. From partition to Pakistani, from Arnab Goswami to Allama Iqbal, from 26/11 to Indo-Pak friendship, they spoke theirout.Here is an excerpt from the conversation:India: The only subliminal phobia Indians have is that the Indian Muslims will out breed the Hindus, and that India will become another Pakistan.India: Yes. Pakistani women are considered hotter. It is a case of grass being greener on the other side.India: Both my maternal grandparents are from small villages in the Pakistani side of Punjab. My Dadaji used to tell me stories about crossing the Sindh (Indus) and its enormous width. He suffered enormously during partition because he was an engineering student in Lahore and had to give up his studies to flee with his family. No one died, but they lost everything and had to start from scratch. Dadi is religious and never talks about her past, but I know that her story is a bit darker since some of her relatives were abducted during the journey. Thankfully, they got an Apartment in Delhi and made a career in public educationPakistan: My maternal grandparents happened to be on the Indian side of Punjab. They were close to the boundary and found out on the 3rd day (i.e. when Radcliffe Award was announced) that they're on the wrong side. They were also told that some Sikhs are coming to kill them, so they fled for Pakistan with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they had no time to gather their belongings. When they came to Pakistan my paternal grandparents helped them settle and that's how the two families met. Ithey were lucky in a sense that they escaped violence.In those days, they didn't trust banks so they used to fill up pots with money and bury them. They had two pots full of coins made of mostly silver which they couldn't retrieve when fleeing. So somewhere in India, there's likely two pots full of silver still buried.India: You guys are trying to expand the middle-class and settling things down, despite having a lot of political turmoil, drones overhead, and a lot of terrorist attacks on schools and shit.The youth culture and things likeCoke Studio. Also, your TV serials and coal-smoked Kebabs are the one thing I'll acknowledge you've beaten us Indians in.India: 26/11 showed us that the intentions on your side were not just for vote bank appeasement or(like in Kashmir). This was intense and insane. With any other government in place, a cold start would have been activated. It has caused us a lot of pain just like the continued support for separatists in J&K from your side. Still, I feel it matters more to you than to us of what you make of the future of our friendship. Stop supporting anti-India ideologies and yours will be a more prosperous nation.India: There is a disconnect and gentrification which has created problems, but more and more NE Indians come to major metropolitan cities in rest of India for jobs and assimilate. There is also increasing awareness about stopping discrimination, and the issue has gained visibility. So things are getting better.India: He wrote Saare Jahan Se Achha. He is well known for this. But, our textbooks don't mention that he was Pakistan's Tagore.India: Australian Indian here. Yeah, South Asians here all get along, unless cricket is involved then there's a lot of trash talking. We all wish Happy Diwali and Eid Mubarak to each other. Our communities are pretty small here so we all stick together.Pakistan: Any fellow Dota players here? Hows the Dota, or esport scene in general, over there in India?I am not a Dota player (yet), but I am a huge gamer. Planning to begin playing that game in March next year, since I will have a lot of free time afterwards.Cannot speak for the whole gaming scene in India, but my fellows andwho do play are obsessed with action andgames (20XX, Call of Duty's various iterations, CS:GO and other FPS and such). I am literally one of the few strategy gamers in my city.