Milk and sugar

NEW DELHI, AUG. 15. ``If the Muslim is milk, Hindu is sugar,'' said poet Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, quoting the great Kashmiri Sufi poet Mehjoor while making an impassioned appeal to the two communities in Jammu and Kashmir to stay in harmony.

Rendering a Hindi translation of a Kashmiri couplet penned by the Shayar-e-Kashmir, Mr. Vajpayee said in his Independence Day address, ``the caste and land of you Kashmiris is the same. Do not unnecessarily create a distance between you. If Muslim is milk, Hindu is sugar. Mix the milk with this sugar''. This Sufi ideology, he said, was the point of convergence of Kashmir with the spiritual tradition of India. -

- PTI

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