Social media campaign spreads love between Pakistan and India

作者: Rahul Aijaz on 26 October , 2015.
类别: Asia, News, Society, South Asia
PHOTO COURTESY twitter.com/TweetOfRam

PHOTO COURTESY twitter.com/TweetOfRam

With the political relations between Pakistan and India being unstable lately, the common people from sibling countries have taken it upon themselves to improve the relations. An Indian social media user, Ram Subramanian started a campaign on Thursday by posting a picture of himself with the note, “I am an Indian, I am from Mumbai, I don’t hate Pakistan, I am not alone, there are many people like me!”

The campaign went viral all over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with a large number of people from both countries joining in.

Through the campaign, the social media user urged others to unite under the hashtag, #ProfileForPeace, and do the same. “Do join in if you believe in peace being the way forward. Write this message on a post it note, take a selfie and make it your profile picture #ProfileForPeace,” Subramanian wrote.

“No more artists being banned. This is my voice. This is our voice for our Mumbai, our India. Enough of hate politics,” he added.

With the Indian extremist party, Shiv Sena’s campaign to spread anti-Pakistani sentiments, Subramanian took it upon himself to counter it and show the real sentiments of Indians for its neighbor country, Pakistan.

As the campaign spread around social media, even celebrities like Indian music composer Vishal Dadlani joined in.

“It had been brewing in my head ever since I heard of a series of bans and attacks. Most of us common blokes don’t feel such hate nor want these fights. And when you close the doors to art you open up a door for dark and unwanted things to come in,” Subramanian told Indian newspaper, Times of India.

Pakistani social media users returned the love with their own pictures and notes stating where they are from, that they don’t hate each other and are only being divided by politics.

 

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