On a mid-October afternoon, I walked on a quiet, dusty street behind the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. Hundreds of men and women lined up behind the few grilled windows opening out of the forbidding walls - mostly the elderly applying for visas to see an ageing parent or a sibling separated by history and politics when British India was divided into India and Pakistan in 1947. After the counters closed for the day, several spread out bed sheets on the footpath behind the embassy, turned their bags into pillows and prepared to sleep in the open - squatters for a night.
10月中旬的一个下午,我走在巴基斯坦驻新德里高级专员署后面的一条街上,这条街很安静,灰尘弥漫。肃穆的墙壁上开着几扇装有栅栏的窗户,数百名男女在窗口前排着队——多数是老人,他们在申请签证,想去巴基斯坦探望年老的父母或者兄弟姐妹。他们的亲人在1947年英属印度被分裂为印度和巴基斯坦时,因历史和政治原因而被分隔两地。一天结束,窗口关闭,一些排队的人在使馆后面的人行道上铺开床单,以包为枕,准备在露天睡觉。
Early morning, they would queue at the grilled windows, shuffle their piles of documents - invitation letters, copies of identity cards and address proofs of their relatives in Pakistan - and pray the visa officers didn't turn down their request to visit a dying relative or attend a niece's wedding. “My brother is sick. I haven't seen him for five years. Maybe I will get to meet him once again, said a woman from Gujarat.
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