A Story for Vajpayee and Musharraf – THE REALITY AND FICTION OF NATIONS
written by Chaitanya Keerti
A Story:
For more than fifty years, India and Pakistan have been fighting because they did not listen to the wisdom of the mad people. Life is a mystery: some times mad people prove wiser than the so-called sane people. Now as the Vajpayee-Musharraf’s meeting date nears, I have chosen to tell them a story (told earlier by Osho in his discourse on Sat Chit Anand) that proves the point and also should help both of them draw a reasonable agenda of discussion:
Thus goes the story:
When India was divided into two nations, India and Pakistan, a rumor was heard that there was a madhouse just on the boundary. Neither India nor Pakistan was interested to take the madhouse. But something had to be done. It had to go somewhere. Finally, the chief superintendent of the madhouse called all the mad people and asked them, “Do you want to go to India?”
They said, “No, we are perfectly happy here.”
