At the departure gate, you find yourself being smothered by a sea of brown bodies clamouring to board the aircraft. The feeling that arises ranges from low-key annoyance to utter disgust where one considers yelling instructions at the desi crowd. The centre is not required to know the margins, but the margins is obliged to know the centre. Because the margin is expected to adapt to the centre, but the centre needn’t adapt to the margins. We must find the compassion to excuse ourselves, and our people, for not knowing things beyond what they’ve been exposed to.

Source: Pakistan Today March 15, 2019 08:15 UTC