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The Indian television crew that travelled with a delegation of politicians managed to reach Karachi. There we met office-bearers of the Malayali Jamaith in Karachi. It is a philanthropic organisation that looks after Malayalis languishing there without valid papers. These men were working in Karachi during the Partition. Till 1950, they had no problems in travelling between Indian and Pakistan. The visa restrictions came after that. Sadly, many of those illiterate or semi-literate men did not realise that a 10-day visa did not permit them to stay on forever. So some who reached Kerala overstayed and were caught by the police as visa offenders. That sealed their fate as getting a visa after that was next to possible. We met those ailing men, many of them octogenarians. All of them had one wish: a glimpse of Kerala before they died,” recalls mediaperson John Brittas, managing director of Kairali who appears in a cameo in ‘Pardeshi.’ John is shown as covering the Agra Summit in 2001, one that he did in real life too.
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