India and Pakistan – two countries born to freedom hours apart from each other, turn 70 this year. It’s not a hush-hush topic that under current circumstances, the relationship between the two neighbors is more than strained.
And yet, will it be too wishful a thinking to look forward to peace and brotherhood between the two counties? Asks Voice Of Ram, a Facebook group that has decided to celebrate the Indian Independence Day together with Pakistan. How? By gathering artists from both sides of the border to sing each other’s national anthems: Jana Gana Mana (India) & Pāk Sarzamīn (Pakistan). In short, a Peace Anthem.
Do you think this Peace Anthem has power to bring the two countries together? Let us know in the comments.
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