This post at Avi's blog - Thought Garden reminds me of a story my father tells about a real happening just after partition was announced.  A team of doctors and medical students (and he was one of the youngest members of this team, still a medical student) was sent from Bombay to Lahore (in Pakistan). Interestingly, the hospital was in Pakistan and the brief was to treat injured Indian refugees. This team had no Hindu or Muslim doctors or students in it by design, due to the delicate situation - only Jewish, Parsi and Christian doctors and students were sent. 

The point here is not to describe the horrific ravages they were exposed to.  The reality was in the blurring of 'national identity' - they treated all injured as human beings, with no distinction between Hindus and Muslims.

Avi's modified this painting by Escher - and calls it - Cost of Conflict! : And they took up their erasers!. Avi tells me he visualized the illustration to illustrate that the two states have no other option than to help each other attain mutual realization...provided they gave up their fascination with erasers and erase each other out of existence!