By Shyanak Ghoshal/ News Mania
On Wednesday 90 years old Reena Varma finally went back to the house in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city that she dreamed about for 75 years . Ms Varma , who had traveled to Pakistan from the western Indian city of Pune , was showered with rose petals as she walked towards the house on college road . People played drums and danced with her as they celebrated her arrival. Ms Varma’s family had left RawalPindi in 1947 , weeks before the partitions which led to the creation of two Independent nations , India and Pakistan .This partition resulted a lot of blood loss and life loss in Punjab , when many people fled away their homes to cross the border after religious riot broke out.Though all the pain and trauma , Ms Varma never stopped thinking about her childhood home which her father had built with his savings.
In 2021 MS Varma became the sention (a mental process ,such as seeing, hearing, or smelling ) and finally a female journalist found it . But Ms Varma couldn’t travel to Pakistan last year due to covid 19 age restriction and in march when she applied for a visa to visit Pakistan , it was rejected without assigning any reason. She decided to reapply, but before she could , her story caught the eye of a Pakistani minister , who instructed the country’s high commission in Delhi to immediately process her applications.
“I was overwhelmed when I received a call from the Pakistani high commission . They asked me to come and take my Visa . It happened within a few days .”
Source : Reuter
