T.S. Eliot’s words: ‘You are the music while the music lasts.’
By Sudheendra Kulkarni
Dec 21, 2008
I asked Bawra about the ISI-sponsored terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in July this year, which killed 41 people. “It was barbaric and very painful,” he said. “The situation was very tense and we were extremely sad at the loss of some of our dear colleagues. But not a single staffer in the embassy wanted to go back to India. Within days, our embassy and the culture centre started functioning again. And, after a month, we celebrated India’s Independence Day by singing Indian and Afghan patriotic songs. We celebrated Gandhi Jayanti in Habibiya High School, one of the best schools in Kabul, in which hundreds of Afghan children participated. Among other songs, they sang Gandhiji’s favourite ‘Allah tero naam, eshwar tero naam...’ ”
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