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What happens if Geeta meets Shiv Sena?

Watching the minute-by-minute coverage of the return home of Geeta, the deaf-mute girl who lived in Pakistan for a decade or more, provokes the thought: What if Geeta and Shiv Sena's goons come face-to-face?

Luckily for Uddhav Thackeray, Geeta cannot speak, so she cannot tell him about the enormous caring and love that Pakistan's Edhi Foundation plied her at home in Lahore and Karachi - and make no mistake, it was home - these past many, many years. They treated this stranger like their daughter, not for a few weeks or months but for an endlessly long decade, without a murmur or complaint.

The Edhis took Geeta in when the Pakistan Rangers brought her to the Foundation in Lahore around 2002. A young girl, aged anywhere between seven-ten years, had been found sitting all alone in the Samjhauta Express, the train that traverses the distance between Amritsar and Lahore - twin cities before 1947 and now divided by rolls of concertina wire - when it reached Lahore station. She was handed over to the police.

Everyone knows the bare outlines of the story. How Geeta couldn't tell them very much about herself, especially because she was deaf-mute, except for the fact that she was Indian. The Pakistan Rangers, Pakistan's equivalent of the BSF, handed her over to the Edhi Foundation in Lahore. She was then moved to Karachi, where the foundation is headquartered. Read more here.