Sometimes I feel it really strange when "Law of Coincidence" comes into play. Sometimes it is unbelievable. Sometimes I learn a new word, I have never read or heard the word before in my life, but as soon as I learn it, I start finding the word everywhere, on television, in newspapers in novels. May be this can be explained as that I was not paying attention to it before. But still ....
Sometimes we are just thinking of a song, or start humming a tune, and suddenly the same song starts playing in the background, may be on the television, may be in the restaurant, may be in the car passing near by. You may call it the "Musical Sixth Sense".
Recently, it happened that I was on an excursion to north of Italy, Merano and South Tyrol (on Sunday 23 October, 2005). It was strange to notice that though it was a part of Italy, everything was in German language. We were told that it had been a part of Austria but was given to Italy due to some agreement. We asked a man whether he would call himself Italian or German or Austrian. His reply was that citizenship might change, but I am a South Tyrolian, this is something I hold in my heart and that cannot be changed. True indeed...
Now comes the stranger part. Next day in "Dawn" newspaper of Pakistan there was an essay "Slow foxtrot with India" by M.P. Bhandara regarding Kashmir dispute. And he ended the article with these lines:
Sometimes we are just thinking of a song, or start humming a tune, and suddenly the same song starts playing in the background, may be on the television, may be in the restaurant, may be in the car passing near by. You may call it the "Musical Sixth Sense".
Recently, it happened that I was on an excursion to north of Italy, Merano and South Tyrol (on Sunday 23 October, 2005). It was strange to notice that though it was a part of Italy, everything was in German language. We were told that it had been a part of Austria but was given to Italy due to some agreement. We asked a man whether he would call himself Italian or German or Austrian. His reply was that citizenship might change, but I am a South Tyrolian, this is something I hold in my heart and that cannot be changed. True indeed...
Now comes the stranger part. Next day in "Dawn" newspaper of Pakistan there was an essay "Slow foxtrot with India" by M.P. Bhandara regarding Kashmir dispute. And he ended the article with these lines:
An autonomous Valley, with a minimum of Indian control, will be de jure part of India; but, de facto a part of Pakistan. Such is the case in South Tyrol, wherein a Kashmir-like problem existed between Austria and Italy. Real autonomy has smothered the vanities of sovereignty.
