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UN-WELCOMING WALLS

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Do we build walls to welcome people? Strange isn’t it? We make bridges, not walls to connect people. It would be a ridiculous idea to build a wall so as to build a better relationship. The fall of the Berlin wall was the beginning of a new era not only for the ideologically malnourished Eastern Germans but for the entire world. I remember reading about the fall of the Berlin wall from the history books. What person will ever erect a wall, not in the periphery of his property but right in the middle of his home to beautify it? Who will segregate his own household as 'seeables' and 'unseeables'? Have those live beyond the walls become zombies, a threat to national and international security? Questioning is seditious these days, I know! But how to pause over in silence when open and not so open prisons are being erected every day throughout the length and breadth of this country all in the name of development? If we are truly superpower, as some claim to be, why should