tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48432676975207288782023-11-23T17:24:32.465+05:30 THE FINDER. A blog by Abdul Wajid ...in pursuit of Truth, justice and peace!!Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-47773755322147259732016-07-30T19:13:00.003+05:302016-07-30T19:13:19.106+05:30An Open Letter To Jhanvi Behal From A Kashmiri<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">First of all, I would like to applaud you for your open, courageous challenge of hoisting the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk, Srinagar. You are out of the ordinary and so are your dreams. Being so outspoken in India is not very common. I really appreciate your gallant approach towards the social matters.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">Well, I am not going to question your nationalistic romanticism towards the Indian national flag. Neither am I going to campaign about any anti-national event that offends you. I am not going to speak in favour of or against any mainstream politician or a separatist either. In this letter, I will only try to give you some brotherly advice on behalf of my Kashmiri brethren.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">You talked about hoisting the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk where according to you the Tri-colour was disrespected by some ‘anti-national’ elements. It was not something surprising because you are not the first person who has challenged that. Many have attempted to do that before. But what actually is surprising is, how an extremist thought has found a place in your innocent mind at such a tender age. It speaks enough of the invasion of nationalism among young Indians which is a problem. Let me explain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">When you are overly emotional, your desperate move can result in a wrong turn. Your situational incognizance adds to it and makes it worse. Revolution happens only when the right opportunity meets the right preparation. When you are not aware of everything happening around you and respond improperly; you are ought to make a blunder. Being patriotic is a great quality. But the love of nation should not blind you from differentiating between right and wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">You are on a mission of achieving something that is unachievable without force. Isn’t that a military invasion? For the sake of argument, let us assume that you will successfully hoist the Indian national flag in Lal Chowk on coming 15th August. What is Next? What is that going to prove?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">If you visit Kashmir, how many wall-graffiti are you going to wash off from the streets of Srinagar saying: “Go India Go Back!” Even if that is one of your agendas in Swach Bharat Mission, how many ‘Go India Go back’ slogans are you going to wash off from the minds of Kashmiris?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">My dear sister, I would suggest you not to waste your sincere efforts on something forceful. Rather try to earn it. We, Kashmiris, are very modest people and known for our hospitality. You are welcome to come over, sip some kehwa, enjoy a shikara ride and feel the warmth of our love. If you really want to attest the presence of India in Kashmir, try to attest that in the hearts of our people and not in the heart of our city. What is the point of hoisting a flag on a watch tower where there will be no one to fold it respectfully every evening and hoist it back the next morning after you go back home? There is no point in hoisting the national flag on a building with a concrete heart void of emotions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">What if I ask you why the streets in Kashmir wear a deserted look every 15th August when the whole India is celebrating on the streets? If you are really open to challenges then let me challenge you openly to hoist the flag in our hearts. Can you? If you are sincere to your patriotic claims, then rather take a pledge to hoist it high in the heart of every Kashmiri, and that can’t be done forcefully. Your challenge reminds me of the words that echo in the streets of Kashmir every now and then, “You might win our land, but you can never win our hearts.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">My dear sister, you are young and seem to be sincere to work for the betterment of the society. I learned that you are greatly inspired by Mother Teresa. Well if you are, then you should see Kashmir issue as a human rights/social issue first and not a military issue. The day you stop looking at Kashmir through the nationalistic prism, you will find your answers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;">You have a long way to go, grow up and make a difference. Take a suggestion from this brother who has lived 27 years under the shadow of guns in Kashmir: Being patriotic is one thing and being nationalistic is something entirely else. There are furthermore categories like overly nationalistic, outrageously nationalistic, religiously nationalistic and jingoistic. And above all is humanity. Now you have to see where you stand and where you want to go.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.44px;"><b>P.S. This article was first published by <a href="http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/07/open-letter-to-jhanvi-behal-from-kashmir/" target="_blank">Youth Ki Awaaz</a> </b></span></span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-78539098473899391152016-07-09T20:22:00.004+05:302016-07-10T01:40:24.350+05:30Burhan … and what Next?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Indian Controlled Kashmir, Burhan Wani, has been killed in south Kashmir and
the whole Kashmir is protesting on streets. Burhan’s death is the only buzzword
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of Hizb, the local Kashmiri militant organization fighting against the Indian occupation.
Kashmir, on the other hand, is on streets, protesting and mourning the death of
a local hero, their own </span><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Che Guevara</i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The young boy with a charming chocolate face, Burhan, has been in
news following his growing popularity on social media. His modus operandi that was
different from the other young recruits in the Hizb has made him an iconic
figure among the locals. He was leading the Hizb as an Independent body while using
social media for his campaign. His recent statement of welcoming Kashmiri
pundits and Amarnath yatris in the valley added more to his following. That
spoke enough of his liberal cause. He clearly spoke about his only objective of
fighting against the Indian occupation. In no time he became the most wanted militant
in the valley earning him a bounty of one million rupees on his head.</span></div>
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from all over the valley are pouring into his town to pay tributes to him. Eulogies
are being sung by the local woman, showering candies and flowers over his
funeral. There have been unprecedented protests following his killing where
around eight protesters have been killed so far and hundreds injured. More causality
is expected; I pray otherwise. Restrictions
and curfew has been placed in most of the towns while mobile internet has been
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There have been militant killings before but none was responded
the way it being done now in case of Burhan. This speaks of the people’s sentiments
for the freedom movement that started decades ago. Burhan’s death has given
that movement a new face. </span></div>
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has erupted once again in the valley but the question remains: Where is Kashmir
leading? How many death tolls more? This is worrisome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I pray it is not a start of another bloody cycle of action and
reaction where people are gunned down to mere numbers for a ravenous death toll.
Whoever is being killed or kills the other might have his own reasons to do so.
One is serving his nation and other is serving his cause. But what next?<br />
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Violence is definitely not a solution. Sometimes it can be one of the medium to
reach a solution but definitely not a way to be preferred; history teaches us. My
heart pained equally at the death of 8 CRPF personals that were killed by
militants recently is an ambush in Pampore, Kashmir. Poor fellows didn’t even
know why they were being targeted. They are mere pawns of a bigger bloody game unaware
of the actual actors and their dirty script. How many more deaths? How many
more cycles of killings and retaliations? There has to be a way out. <br />
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With the killing of Burhan opens a new chapter in the history of Kashmir
struggle for freedom. There will be
definitely consequences attached – mostly bad. I pray it ushers Kashmir to its resolution
in a peaceful way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Burhan’s death should not be celebrated by pro-Indians as a
triumph. Neither should it inspire pro-Kashmiris to follow the same path. His
cause should rather be pondered upon. It might be the end of his life but it’s
a beginning of his cause that needs to resolve with peace; sooner the better. If
not, then the only worry is: what next?<br />
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poet friend writes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Come to the skies, long forgotten. Come, we wait</span></i><i><span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">for that promised day. Not for those, who hold
winters</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">close, like me; but for flowers yet to be. Come,
we wait.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Those saffron fields, that once were: grow not
saffron</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">any more. We now grow stones in them. Those we
keep</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to fight, and some we keep to remember.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Knitting purl jersey, now half complete. If she
could knit</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the fate, or cancel the ink that wrote, or
dissolve it perchance.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">What fancy at times does heart make, when love
is at the stake.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">They found him after the moons forgotten,
sleeping</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in the fields. One shoe lost somewhere, the
other</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with laces undone. That white shirt had lost its
color,</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">faded into red. Tucked safe inside the pocket of
jeans,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">a letter to the sweetheart; dirty at creases.
Now, never</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to be read; for the want of a listener, word on
his lip unsaid.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The kohl lining to those clouds; tonight, washed
away by rains.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Carefully placing the mothballs; Mothers knot
those bags of memories.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Fold carefully: they are too young, for the old
age bevel-top trunk.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Come to the skies, long forgotten. Come, we wait</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for that promised day. Not for those, who hold
winters</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">close, like me; but for flowers yet to be. Come,
we wait</span></span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-27583659855132033702015-09-21T03:53:00.005+05:302015-09-21T04:05:15.107+05:30Two Bloody Shrouds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was early morning when the wailing from neighbouring women woke me up before my alarm clock could wail. I rubbed my sleepy eyes to check my neighbourhood for the untimely unrest. People, mostly old, were jostling outside my neighbour's house. "Taaje boebe hai Moeyi bechaer ( Poor taj-e-boaba has expired) , " heralded my mother to my curious ears. Taj-e-boeba, an amicable old woman in my neighbourhood, was 90.</div>
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Setting aside the many layers of warm blankets and the heavy quilt under which I was buried, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I got up from my cozy bed and </span>performed wazu, Islamic ablution, to prepare myself for the namaz-e-jinaaza (special congregational prayers for the deceased). I trotted down to the fateful house to find more people swarming the mourning house. Women were wailing in kashmiri tones as if orchestrated by a connecting rhythm. There was some storytelling in their mournings. "Azaad gai bechaer( she got relieved at last) ," opined one cracking voice from the wailing house. "Kaensi theaven ne minath ( she left with no trouble to anyone ) , " joined another wailing voice, this time from an old man hiding his grey head inside his warm pheran against the cold and the grief. Similar statements and opinions kept airing for some more time, mixing the cold air with strange voices of wailing, murmuring and howling. Meanwhile more people kept pouring in as the news spread across the neighbourhood.</div>
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I kept standing near the main gate, watching the mourners and their sympathisers. Three hours passed as such but there was no sign of nimaaz-e-jinaaza. It seemed the deceased had to wait for more people to come and see her face one last time before the earthy soil could absorb her body. It was time to go for another round of ablution and come back afresh. </div>
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Sometime later, all the relatives, neighbours, well wishes, office colleagues, formal friends and others; Everyone assembled in the small house that now looked swelling. It never looked that the modest house would accommodate such a humongous crowd. Every possible space, every corner, every staircase was occupied. Interestingly a cavalcade of waza, Kashmiri cook, also arrived at the spot, funnily enough, much prior to the arrival of the local imaam heading the nimaaz-e-jinaza. After all someone has to feed the family of the deceased and the others for sometime.</div>
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After all the arrangement were done, the faithful men walked into an open ground to join the nimaz-e-jinaaza. Women on the other hand kept beating their chest while trying their best to get the lasting glimpses of the dear boaba. Meanwhile the army of the waza started arranging their team and respective tools of cauldrons and ladles. While the men prayed for the deceased, the women folk got more busy in gabbing and badmouthing as such subsiding the wailing cries remarkably. </div>
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As the Jinaza finished, the huge rows of people disbanded into parting ways. Some people joined back the mourners while few others, the curious cases, joined the waza team to check the salt and pepper of each delicacy being cooked while sipping down the complimentary noon chai (Kashmiri salt tea).</div>
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The whole day, noon chai kept brewing in the lifesized somavar. People kept coming and going, marking their formal attendance. The rush of the visitors and the bam of their vehicles made the street look busy that otherwise wears a deserted look. Later, as I signed off my day and laid down on my cozy bed, taj-e-boaba came to my dream and whispered, "suin kyah oosukh rounmut?( what was there in the meals?)."</div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-88419191793182370072014-01-06T23:30:00.000+05:302014-01-07T00:19:53.642+05:30The Sopore Massacre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jan 6 is
over and with that the first week of a new year is about to culminate. This is
the time when most of us are planning to draft our new-year resolution while
others might have already started to practise. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Whenever a
fresh year is born, people all over the world plan for a better upcoming future
while recollecting the beauty of the yesteryear. Unfortunately, there is a poor
section of this society who always miss the bus of jubilations. For them a new
year is nothing but a reminder of their ill fate. Every new calendar on their
walls reminds them of their terrifying doom, rubbing salt on their wounds. This
poor section of the society is where I live. The name is Kashmir, the most beautiful
prison on planet, where a new year has an ugly string attached. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Most of the
deadliest massacres have taken place in the first two months of some bloody
years, consuming the lives and dignity of hundreds of innocent Kashmiri people.
Starting from the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SoporeMassacre&src=hash" target="_blank">#SoporeMassacre</a>(6<sup>th</sup> Jan) to <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GowKadalMassacre&src=hash" target="_blank">#GowKadalMassacre</a>(20<sup>th</sup>
Jan) and to the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KunanPoshPura&src=hash" target="_blank">#kunanposhpura</a> mass rape(Feb 23), Kashmir has always been raped
and bruised.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Today let us
remember the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SoporeMassacre&src=hash" target="_blank">#SoporeMassacre</a>. 55 innocent Kashmiri civilians were killed and as
many as 450 buildings were burnt by the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF), in
revenge, after militants ambushed a BSF patrol, in the town of Sopore in
Kashmir on 6 January 1993. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is widely
alleged that after the killing of the BSF guy, the Indian troops, out of
frustration and anger, fired indiscriminately at local residents and set ablaze
their homes and shops. According to the testimony of the eye witnesses and
major media(local and international minus the apex Indian Media that cooked its
own part of the news), a public coach was also attacked by the troopers that
killed the driver and at least 15 passengers. Even more gruesomely, some residents
are believed to have been were burnt alive by the Indian troops. The
Independent (UK) reports the tribulation as follows:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">"The Border Security Forces
sprayed a public coach with machine-gun fire, killing the driver and more than
15 passengers, said witnesses. Three other cars were also fired on, and then
the paramilitary forces set the vehicles ablaze. Next, they began herding the
native Kashmiris into shops and houses, said witnesses. Then the security
forces shot them, splashed paraffin over the bodies and set the buildings
alight."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Sopore massacre
forced into the open an issue that the Indian government tried to sweep under
the carpet. But due to the widespread publicity of the incident, they couldn't
just sweep it under the rug. Initially they claimed that the high civilian casualties
were only the collateral damage on account of an intense gun battle between the
BSF soldiers and militants. However, the government was later prompted to
initiate a judicial inquiry into the matter that suspended several BSF
officers.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Funnily
enough, two cases stand registered in the matter with Police Station Sopore
which were referred for investigation to CBI Delhi, but as of 2013 the fate of
the cases is unknown to public. The files might have simply been closed and fed
to the office dust. And today sadly those martyrs go unsung. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Following
the massacre there was an immense protest from the local people. Thousands of
Kashmiris defying a government-imposed curfew, protested against the actions of
the BSF soldiers on the streets . The then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao,
ordered state governor Girish Saxena to
visit Sopore and announced a compensation of £2,275 for the relatives of the
deceased. However, this political cream called as compensation could not heal
the wounds that were too deep. And now, on every new year, the wounds just get
more afresh and deep. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">RIP #<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SoporeMassacre&src=hash" target="_blank">Sopore</a>Martyrs.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">References:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore_massacre"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore_massacre</span></span></span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2014/Jan/6/revisiting-sopore-massacre-65.asp">http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2014/Jan/6/revisiting-sopore-massacre-65.asp</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://bloodiedrivers.blogspot.in/2011/01/sopore-massacre-1993the-memories-of.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">http://bloodiedrivers.blogspot.in/2011/01/sopore-massacre-1993the-memories-of.html</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.kashmirlife.net/sopore-massacre/">http://www.kashmirlife.net/sopore-massacre/</a> </span></span></span></li>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-7865385725057542662013-11-05T17:14:00.000+05:302013-11-05T17:24:19.545+05:30Of Malgudi Days And Kashmir<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was late February in wintry Kashmir. The mercury was
dipping down to subzero and the cold was harsh enough to arrest me in my warm
cozy place. Everything around was catching the snapping cold. Life was freezed
like frozen waters. The dark shady sky overhead was warning of bombarding more
snowflakes, making people lazier because of the winter-blues. I was also a part
of this lazy routinely chore. I started my day late and ended it early only to
add more laziness to my sluggishness. </div>
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This routine of me was making me dumb, consuming my aptitude
day by day. However it was only after I received my appointment letter from L&T
InfoTech where I had applied earlier, my life changed drastically. Funnily
enough, I wished for a little warmer place and I got the warmest, Chennai, the
place where I am posted. Ah! And now here I am in Chennai a.k.a. Madras.</div>
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At first Chennai turned me ill at ease. I had never been to
a south Indian place before. I knew nothing about Chennai except <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Dosa’ and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rajnikanth.</i> From last six months, I was
like hibernating in my place but now this was the wakeup call for me. Although
it was a promising opportunity but the trouble to bother was that I had to
travel from an extremely cold place to an insanely hot and humid place. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Kashmir to Kaniyakumari”</i>, responded
everyone in bewilderment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As I stepped first into Chennai, a chain of trees(read as
coconut tress) welcomed me. Interestingly the architecture around reminded me of RK
Narayan’s lifework <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Malgudi Days</i>
narrating stories that are weaved around intricate streets, modest houses and
men in their ‘loungi’. It was feeling like the characters from Malgudi Days
have turned live to entertain me. </div>
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Well for many people, Chennai won’t seem to be a very
interesting place as far as the expectations from a “metro” city are concerned.
Minus some of the good beaches and few glittering malls, a commoner cannot find
anything more entertaining. But that’s okay. Modestly is what I really admire
about Chennai. The Chennai people, as I inferred, are very modest in their behaviour
and attires accept some “inflexible” guys who strictly confine themselves to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>the five letters of ‘TAMIL’. </div>
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The widespread use of the local language is something that I
found very peculiar about Tamilnadu. The Tamil people literally don’t give a
rend cent to the “national” language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hindi
influence hence the Bollywood is very negligible as compared to Tamil and hence
the Kollywood. Not a very good example of “Abhin Bharat” (integral India), I
must say. However, a food for thought for Kashmir where the local language is
slowly getting a part of history. Although language is a big barrier here as
the Hindi speaking crowd is apparently nil but I hope to follow it soon. </div>
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Food is another big problem after communication for the
north Indian people, specially Kashmiris (excuse my assumption of kashmiris being
Indians here), who find it difficult to gulp down the south Indian food. I
couldn’t find any restaurant for Kashmiri Wazwan although non-vegetarian stuff is
quite flourished specially Biryani that rules the roost.</div>
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Another interesting factor added to my experience as I could
draft a similarity between the tamils and Kashmiris. It is the liberation fight
going in the northern part of Sri Lanka by Tamils against the Lankan atrocities,
wining the sympathy from the Indian Tamils and some Kashmiris. After interacting
with some of my Tamil colleagues, I could hear some praise for the slain chief
commander of LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran. The same opinion is not true for my
north Indian colleagues who feel otherwise like many countries including India
that listed Prabharkaran as a chief terrorist. “One man's terrorist is another
man's freedom fighter,” that’s what I inferred. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well the same parallelism between Tamils and
Kashmiris speaks for a good reason for the recent visit of JKLF boss, Yasin
Malik to Chennai. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Keeping the politics apart, many Kashmiris have find their
home in Chennai. Although the environment and the other parameters in Chennai are
altogether different as those in Kashmir but for many Kashmiris it is a breeding
ground to run their business specially the handicrafts. Interestingly there are
market places in Chennai like Mahabalipuram and Spenser’s Plaza, where there
are more than hundred Kashmiri shops in one place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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During my last six months in chennai, I have met many Kashmiri
fellows who have almost been settled permanently in Chennai. Muhammad Ayub from
old city is one such person who is settled in chennai with his family. Running
emporium shops in various parts of Tamil Nadu, Ayub has spend almost three
decades in chennai. His typical old kashmiri face and a long white beard speaks
of his experience. Abdul Rehman is another Kashmiri whom I met in a mosque. Rehman
says he came to chennai some two decads back, married a local tamil woman and hence
got settled there. “Following on his food habits also changed from Noon-chai and
Kander Czout to Idli and dosa,” he said with a smile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A good reason for this settlement can be that south India is
much safer for Kashmiris if we talk of the politics against Kashmiris like in
rest of the states in India. But sometimes it makes me wonder for how many more
years Kashmiri people will be forced to leave their homes in pursuit of a
“better” living. And now when I am living in my new home of scorching sun and
humid air, I wish for change again. Needless to say this time to a colder place,
Kashmir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>[P.S. This piece was first published in <a href="http://www.kashmirlife.net/kashmir-to-kanyakumari/" target="_blank">kashmirlife</a> ]</b></span></div>
Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-83480843458541237842013-08-24T02:04:00.001+05:302013-08-24T02:38:03.971+05:30Emergency Call<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #676767; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flushhhh!!!!!!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”, down goes the flush of the toilet<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> as I got relieved of my waste. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hooooohh!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”, I exhaled a sigh of relief and took a deep
breath before the mirror in the rest room of my office. Watching myself relaxed into the
mirror, I smiled at my reflection and came out merrily, whistling and humming
random songs with myself, “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">laa la la laaa</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quite casually
I stepped out of the rest room and started moving towards my desk that a loud bam of emergency announcements
thudded my ears with thumping sounds of “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fire Fire!!!…Pomp Pomp!!!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”. The same
iterated for few more times turning me nervous. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wallah! What is going on?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” I questioned to
my astounded self. Few more minutes passed and some earsplitting noise from
sirens resonated to add to my annoyance and more to my surprise. </span></div>
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emergency call and I turned too scary looking around chaotically to see how the
people react. Period! Couldn’t see anyone around, now my fear started getting
aggravated and my heartbeats started to pump up out of the rhythmic 72 per
minute. The worry on my face was visible from the rush of sweat running down my
face in response to the hormones that instinct fear. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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life, I rushed to the lift that was shutdown in emergency. This added more to
my uneasiness. In no time, I ran towards the stairs and moved
down hurriedly panting like anything. I was out of breath, running for my
life that seemed running away from me fearing some mysterious danger. I was
feeling as if I am the Will Smith from <i>I am legend</i> looking for a trace
of life in an alienated and outlandish world.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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the stairs, I was struggling at every step to see the open air and a safer
zone. Finally after stumbling and tumbling, I landed on the ground
floor throbbing and panting for air. All drenched in sweat, I took a
pause and leaned forward, with my hands touching my knees and my
head hanging down to ground, to catch hold of my losing
breath. Ho!! I lifted myself up and as I looked around, I was
dumbfounded. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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could not believe what the reality presented to me and my eyes protested back
in surprise. I rubbed my eyes in an attempt to see the reality more.
Again, I was spellbound. My mouth was wide open, short of words, with the
wide-eyed me, watching people relaxed, chatting, gabbing and laughing. “<b>Oh</b>
My God</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">!!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">” I uttered to my break my surprise. It was an enumerate crowd
of people, all relaxed and all busy with their respective circles, rejoicing
their complimentary time thanks to a mock drill that was going on. “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A damn mock drill</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”, I ridiculously
murmured to myself before I rested my broken self on the parapet.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-45682042982354108212013-08-11T12:54:00.002+05:302013-08-11T12:54:39.707+05:30Post 1900 hours<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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worn-out shoes and the two ladies kept assaulting my ears with their pinkish
chitchats. More annoyingly, the fat guy sticking to me was busy picking his big
nose and playing with the dirty boogers round and round…YuK!!</span></div>
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down and stopping at every level, I was tired and even more frustrated, the
same way as the people inside the previous lift which I missed. Ah! Now I could
actually realize the level of annoyance you feel while you are in a rush, your lift
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next time find me catching the stares<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> and stretching my lazy bones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-49466385430614241822013-06-14T00:44:00.003+05:302013-06-14T00:44:47.431+05:30The Shooting Star<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
was late February .The mercury was dipping down to subzero in Kashmir. The
wintry cold was harsh enough to arrest me in my warm cozy place. Everything
around was catching the snapping cold. Life was frozen like freezing waters. The
dark shady sky overhead was warning of more snowflakes to fall, making people
lazier because of the winter-blues. I was also a part of this lazy routinely
chore. I started my day late and ended it early only to add to my sluggishness.
I ate and slept and then again ate and slept again. This was my routine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
routine of me was making me dumb, consuming my aptitude day by day. One night
as I happened to come out in the open sky to cherish the twilight, I saw a shooting
star falling across the skyline as if asking me to make a wish. I did the same wholeheartedly.
I prayed to live in a little warmer place. Within a period of one week, my wish
was answered. Ironically, I asked for a little warmer place and I got one of the
warmest places, Chennai. Ah! And now I am here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chennai
turned me ill at ease. Now I was feeling the butterflies in my stomach. I was
clueless. I had never been to a south Indian place before. I knew nothing about
Chennai but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Dosa’ and Rajnikanth.</i>
From last six months, I was like hibernating in my place but now this was the
wakeup call for me. The trouble to bother was that I had to travel from an
extremely cold place to an insanely hot and humid place. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Kashmir to Kaniyakumari”</i>, responded everyone in bewilderment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As I
landed into Chennai, I was feeling like I have entered a foreign world where
the only way of communicating with others was body language. Interestingly the
architecture around reminded me of RK Narayan’s Malgudi Days. Intricate
streets, modest houses and men in their ‘loungi’. It was feeling like the
characters from Malgudi Days have turned live and performing to entertain me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For me now
Chennai is a very interesting place to visit. Minus some of the good beaches
and malls, a commoner cannot find anything interesting that makes Chennai a
metro city. But that’s okay. Modestly is what I really admire about Chennai. The
Chennai people are very kind and modest in their behavior and attires accept
some riffraff guys who strictly confine their world to these<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>
five letters ‘TAMIL’. Although language is a big barrier here as the Hindi
speaking crowd is apparently nil but I hope to learn it soon. </span></div>
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when I am living in my new home of scorching sun and humid air, I wish to see
that shooting star again and wish for a little colder place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/abdulwajid786" target="_blank">ABDUL WAJID </a></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Today morning I cracked
my day with a surprise. I woke up astonishingly only to find a white snowy blanket
welcoming my drowsy eyes. “Bolt from the sky,” I reasoned for the unexpected snowfall. Although
I am a keen watcher of snowfall but rejoicing the heavenly fall was not an
option this time. It was the black day of remorse and mourning. Every
single snowflake touching the ground was like a rebuke bombarding the conscience
of people lost in their slumber only to awake them of an ugly past, a gruesome happening. It reminded me of
the same fateful snowy day some 22 years back that doomed a village called “<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">KunanPoshpora</a>”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Feb 23 1991
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">Kunan Poshpora</a>: At least 23 women gang reportedly gang-raped by Indian soldiers in this Godforsaken
land that remains aloof from the rest of the valley with army barricades and lofty
snow. Women, young and old, widowed and half-widowed, married and otherwise, were
molested by the armed aliens. Their chastity
was assaulted by the boozy beasts and their souls trampled under the jackboots. Their
life was devastated forever. What followed is only a history now, stained and
ugly, “untraced”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Sadly the
world is silent to this gruesome tragedy as the investigations have always been
sponsored by the saviors of the defaulters. And any further stories put up by the media were not able
to sell the truth. Rest of the lot just exploited the newsy ingredient to cook and
sell the news that is digestible by their bosses. The unfortunate mass rape that shattered the
whole village only underscored the name “<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">Kunan Poshpora</a>” as newsy. Enumerate
news bodies and filmmakers captivated the newsy part again and again for years
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Today I was
really dumbfounded and even more disappointed to find no space for “<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">KunanPoshpora</a>” in the news giants of Kashmir, needless to talk of India. I scanned
the length and breadth of the press only to add more disappointment.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">When I inquired a well-versed pressman for the same, he responded:
<i>“Why to rape them again and again? Why to reveal the same ill-fated past? N</i><span lang="EN-US"><i>ews is only newsy when it is new.
That’s probably why they call it ‘news’.”</i> I was spellbound in response. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">But I fear for the reason that if we go on burying
our past like this then will be burying all those possibilities of getting justice
and living hopes, if any. In this way, we are digging graves to bury down our bitter
memories and bridging gaps for the defaulters to make them runaway at ease. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">No doubt
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">Kunan Poshpora</a> is a tragedy that is far unforgettable and unforgiving. It's an ugly stain on the face of Indian democracy and its "Jawans". The pain and the loss can never be documented, no
matter what you do because “rape” is no little crime. It’s more of a psychological
assault than physical. It shatters the victim once and for all. It’s the assault
on the whole family and not just the victim. What follows cannot be narrated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Back in
Kunan & Poshpora, later after devastating all the noble souls, the soldiers left the
village on its own to mourn and cry. Their bloody footprints on the snowy paths evaded soon but the ghastly period never did. The fateful night ended and the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"><i><span lang="EN-US">sun signed up for the coming day</span></i> but </span>it left behind
shattered souls, wailing mothers and angry helpless people. Worse of all, it left
the young sons and brothers, who witnessed their mothers and sisters being raped,
only to cross the border and return with a revenge gear to kill the perpetrators. </i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">And today when
the whole world, including Kashmir, is catching the sleep in
warm cozies, the haunted village of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kunanposhpora&src=hash" target="_blank">Kunan Poshpora</a> is still there, all awake
and doomed with a past that’s indelible and ugly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> Now as I windup, I can only dream for the
justice. </span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-28710730245705441502013-02-15T14:29:00.001+05:302014-02-12T00:30:38.792+05:30Curfewed!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.twitter.com/abdulwajid786" target="_blank"><b>ABDUL WAJID </b></a></div>
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Kashmir shutdown, Day six!! Although the curfew has been
somewhat relaxed but the mental trauma is still there. The heart beats
are still at halt following the assassination of Kashmiri sentiments to
satisfy the collective conscience of a nation that is
conscience-impaired.<br />
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Well the globe might be moving at its
pace but Kashmir is still stationary. The noose of curfew might have
been loosened around the neck of a Kashmiri but Kashmir is still
enslaved in the shackles of psychological prisons of helplessness and
deceit.<br />
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I am frustrated now. I am digesting whatever I am
being feed with. I sleep, I eat, again I sleep and I eat and shit out
the eaten. That’s my routine now and for millions alike who are caged in
their homes from last six days now.<br />
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When I move to my virtual
life of social networking only to kill my time, I find the black banners
still hanging the walls as if reminding me that Kashmir is still
doomed. The curfew now seems gagging my virtual life too not to
question about my real life that was arrested the time I breathed my
first in Kashmir. The happy people whose online habits were vivacious few days back, sharing their love stories and joys; they are
all invisible now. Their footprints are nowhere online. Their mobile devices
are cramped from crawling the web and thus turned lifeless.</blockquote>
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Meanwhile
the Mosques are full of “periodical” Nimazis who are otherwise busy
attending their ungodly chores, myself included. Old bones, mid aged
grey men and teeny revolutionary youth beat the common paths to the
local mosques. The warm and cozy Masjid Hamams are all packed with people, young and
old, beating the February cold and more importantly killing their
Curfewed time. Revolutionary speeches and prediction of forthcoming
days, all these trivial politics fill the air making it even warmer.
Mosques in Kashmir are never so enthralling as on a hartal or curfew day, No wonder. <br />
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Lastly, I am left with
writing all this only to push another story into an ocean of similar
trivial attempts. I still write despite knowing the fact that nothing
will change. Huh! Probably because I am getting paranoid for being one
of the lambs in a herd of cattle that are tethered with a common leash
called <b>'curfew'</b>.<br />
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-12728293987149074222013-02-13T15:56:00.002+05:302015-02-11T03:13:49.671+05:30A Curfew Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/abdulwajid786"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ABDUL WAJID</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>(This article appeared first on<a href="http://www.kashmirlife.net/a-curfew-visit-20781/" target="_blank"> Kashmir Life</a>)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Sunday evening of Feb 10th . I was caged at home like my brethren in Kashmir following the undeclared execution of Afzal Guru, the 2001 parliament attack “accused”. A strict curfew was clamped down to arrest people inside their homes and confine their resentment to the four walls. I was busy with a writing assignment trying to compile a story for Kashmir Life( the weekly magazine I worked for). Without any premeditation, my bad Kidney started troubling me with a severe pain. I was being treated for Kidney stones from last few weeks but the infection belled its whistles again and the pain started to aggravate at once. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I ran out of medicine and was helpless to find any medical shop operating in a curfew. I struggled the whole night to comfort myself and literally couldn’t stop my poor self from crying in pain that seemed unbearable. I somehow managed to get some sleep lately after dosing some pain killers and any diazepams I could find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The morning that followed was even worse as the infection swelled manifolds. Now I desperately needed to visit the hospital but I was taken aback by the curfew. Losing all the other options I moved on and took my mother along as an alibi (as my curfew pass on humanitarian grounds). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was the third day of strict indefinite curfew in Kashmir following the undeclared execution of Afzal Guru and it was not easy to move out. Plus more it was Feb 11th, the death anniversary of Maqbool Bhat, the apex figure of Kashmiri rebellion against the Indian dogma. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />As I stepped out, the emptied streets welcomed the lone motor I was driving minus few ambulances and many armed wagons bamming their ear-splitting sirens. There were checkpoints after every 100 or 200 meters, all whirled in concertina wires and barricades, looking as if a war has been raged. As I moved on along with my mother, we were stopped at every check point and interrogated to the fullest. And almost at every checkpoint my mom beseeched before the armed Gods for allowing us to reach the hospital. At each of the innumerable points I felt pity over my helplessness and over the slavery we are trapped in. I still feel so, sadly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soldiers charged with guns and loaded with batons were patrolling the deserted streets thereby creating a haunting scenario of a city that looked very vivacious only few days back. I recollected the joyous moment two days before when I was rejoicing my time in Lal Chowk, the heart of srinagar city, along with my peers. Now the same Lal Chowk seemed haunting to me. Stray dogs were probably the only creatures rejoicing the freedom of curfew along their police peers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">All over it was all tense like a blackout. A deafening silence had engulfed the whole valley daunting its happiness and peace. No one was visible around and no footsteps audible as if all the souls had been snatched at once. The silence was calm but seemed more dangerous as if signalling the lull before a storm. It turned me ill at ease. I feared the upcoming reprisals of the blunder done by the Indian government at Tihar. I feared the deadly episodes of 2008, 2009 and 2010. I feared the killings. The mission they called #OperationThreeStar to slaughter a scapegoat for pleasing the #CollectiveConscience of a vision-impaired nation might have quenched their bloody thirst but it seemed to be the onset of a new cycle of violence in peaceful Kashmir. I pray my fear proves otherwise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />On the streets I couldn’t feel a smiling face around except some young boys playing cricket on the empty streets at some handful places. As I reached the hospital, I was completely dumbfounded to find people lying here and there like pieces of scrap scattered over a littering place. They were helpless to move anywhere in curfew and thus forced to sleep in the wintry cold corridors of the hospital. My heart wrenched and mourned as I saw a line of poor daily wagers sitting on the shop fronts looking for any opportunity to earn a bread piece to take back home and feed their starved family with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later when I reached home safely, another ridiculous mockery form the great Indian nation added to my surprise. The letter posted from Tihar jail intended to reach the family of Afzal Guru to intimate them of the loss reached there almost 30 hours late. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Heralding a turbulence hitting from the bars,</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />A letter is posted prior to a storm.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The letter is destined to the country without a post office.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />It laments the news breaking all the norms.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Now I can write #Kashmir on the wall over and again</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Lest I find a reader with a conscience.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Lastly I bowed before my lord and prayed with a heavy heart, wondering about my stand in a nation that claims to be democratic. I question back the proud Bharat, if I am allowed to, for their stand in Kashmir. Who gave them the right to confine a poor man to the four walls of his home? I question them for the right to deprive a poor man of his daily wages? I question them for the right to deprive an ailing boy of medicine and again I question them for their right to snatch three innocent lives(Following Afzal Guru) that were living happily three days ago? And lastly I again question, if I am allowed to, for their right to create the entire ruckus in a pacifistic Kashmir?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can foresee this dictating curfew and rebellion resistance will carry on every death anniversary of Afzal Guru and will get more intense with time. And I fear there will be a day when all this anger, disappointment and the reprisals will snowball into a Frankenstein that will swallow its evil engineer. Lets pray for peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />RIP #<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfzalGuru?src=hash">AfzalGuru</a></span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-24909484793318035202013-02-10T00:00:00.001+05:302015-02-09T20:28:37.561+05:30An Undeclared Murder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.twitter.com/abdulwajid786" target="_blank">ABDUL WAJID</a> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feb 9<sup>th </sup>2013, another
day added to the bloody red letter figures of Kashmir. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> hanged! The mournful news welcomed the wintry cold morning in the
most unwelcoming way. Ears couldn’t believe what was aired to them and
protested back in surprise.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As the news broke, around 8:30 am, an “undeclared
curfew” was clamped down over the entire valley only to ensure people’s obvious
reaction is confined only to “online” reactions and not the street wars
of retaliation and tribulations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, for most of my Indian and “Indianised”
peers, I may sound radical to question the hanging of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru.</a> But I do not blame
them for their obvious nationalistic reaction. I appreciate their patriotic romanticism. They are simply credulous lambs who are simply digesting the feeds their TV channels and media is feeding them with. They are too busy
to dig into reality. They fear a bearded man with
a skull cap for obvious reasons. And now when Kashmir is protesting for the
hanging they feel otherwise. They feel dejected for our non-Indian habits. However, following is an attempt to correct them and elucidate my point which I hope finds some buyers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well kashmiris don’t shout without a
reason. We too have reasons to protest and to speak for the truth. And in case of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> I find
many reasons to correct my dear Indian and “Indianised” peers and justify the
anger and the sadness that is engulfing the valley following todays bluder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Firstly we cannot compare the case of Afzal Guru
with that of Ajmal kasab or Osama Bin Laden or any engineered XYZ terrorist. We
simply cannot take an “accused” same as a “terrorist” and take him to gallows. We cannot consider a “suspect” as a “culprit” for the same reason. To be noted <br /><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> was reportedly a suspect and NOT a culprit.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Secondly <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> was deprived of a fair trial, as reported.
He had no lawyer to put out his version or help him sift through the tangle of
lies and fabrications and propaganda put out by the police. This raises the questions
about how Afzal, who never had proper legal representation, can be sentenced to
death without having had an opportunity to be heard, without a fair trial.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Thirdly there is no consistency in the police statements
claiming Guru to be a terrorist. Pertinently there have been many cases of fabrications in which many accused were acquitted by
the court, lately after proven innocent and after wasting their precious years. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Also there are statements that say Afzal accepted the charges against him in media under stress out of the extreme police torture and inhuman interrogation. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">Afzal Guru </a>was hanged more for political
reasons than for justice. The present Indian government was more desperate to
brag about its stand on anti-terrorism and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> was just a scapegoat. He
was more like a sacrificial goat to start a new journey of captivating the coming
vote bank. <i>He was hanged
by India only to satisfy a ‘collective dead conscience’ of a nation.</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Lastly, by hanging <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AfzalGuru&src=hash" target="_blank">#AfzalGuru</a> secretly so that he could not approach the courts, and ignoring the pending case that could have affected his sentence, and finally not intimating his family about his execution, the Home Minister acted illegally</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Meanwhile when the whole Indian Nation
is busy with their sponsored celebrations, Kashmir is mourning the murder of
another great son. Heart beats are at halt, wailing for the abortion of justice. Streets are full with men in uniform patrolling the emptiness.
The ding dong battles are on elsewhere. Mosques are heralding the </i><i>Gayibana
Jinaza (Prayers in Absentee) and
much similar </i><i>Azadi reverbrations. Mobile internet is barred all across the
valley fearing the black banners that go rampant over the social networking
sites protesting the bungle. TV Cable is also debarred and later filtered to
telecast only the lulling tracks to lull the mourners. In no time the so
called leaders and their armchair critics appear from nowhere to cook their rhetoric
speeches, Hartal calls and other political lingos. And finally the Media rejoices
the biggest share of the pie by captivating the news for the next few days.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>P.S </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><i>Well I am not delivering a hate
speech here but my attempt is only to wake the people in slumber who are
unaware of the blunder done today by the largest democracy of the world. With the hanging of Guru, India has strangulated
its lasting hopes to win the hearts of a common Kashmiri. Today it was not just
a murder of the Kashmiri sentiments; it was more a suicide by Indian democracy. My dear Indian and “Indianised” friends, make
a good note of this.</i></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><i>At last the Indian Government itself
testified to a saying of a veteran writer and journalist, Ambrose Bierce who
said: “Appeal in law means to put the dice into the box for another
throw.” </i></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>References</b></i> : </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;"><a href="https://twitter.com/abdulwajid786" target="_blank"><b>ABDUL WAJID</b></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">It was Sunday and an idea of captivating the break to visit south
<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmir&src=hash" target="_blank">Kashmir</a> in the local passenger train poured into my mind. So I rolled up my
sleeves, took my peers along and moved on. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">It was a fine morning although cold but sunny enough to make it
pleasant. Although I have traveled by train outside <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmir&src=hash" target="_blank">Kashmir</a> many times but it
was my maiden train trip in Kashmir. Perhaps the only reason for my excitement was
to travel in an environment that is colored in snowy white unlike outside Kashmir
and draw the comparisons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">While I was standing along with my peers at the Srinagar Railway station,
my mind was imagining the past experiences and doodling the two scenarios that
looked quite complementary. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">The Srinagar Railway platform looked quite appealing and clean as
compared to the shabby ones outside the valley that are usually filled with half-naked
“sadhu babas”, beggars and the waste. The announcement about the train’s
arrival was made and in a while I could squinty see a short truncated train approaching
closer. It was a surprise to see a small four-coach train that adjusts people
manifolds its seating capacity. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Well, the train started moving after a while with its whistle
blowing louder as if saying good-bye to the few people standing by and wakening
up others. The train that I assumed to be unoccupied was flooded with people as
passengers started getting multiplied. Although
the train was filled to its fullest, the breathtaking landscape and snowy village
fields outside were good enough to entertain me. Otherwise I had to plug-in my
earphones in order to kill my time and facilitate a good slumber in presence of
strange annoying sounds of chuckling, barking, bragging, backbiting, gabbing
and fighting. </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">As I looked through the window, a giant striking outline of the sun
in the east amidst the snowy white fields was giving the gloomy wintry flora a
solid color complexion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enchanting
villages with young lads playing hide and seek behind the outsized heap of
pasturage was presenting the scenario of some old black and white Hindi movie
being played on my train window as the screen. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The pleasant panorama outside the train window reminded me of the ugly
scenes when I used to travel in Indian Railways. I vividly remember how I was
always taken aback after looking through the window to rejoice some scenery
outside. It was either some filthy fouling crap or poor people looking for a
space to excrete away their last night meals. Zounds! </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuqsalI_YY_zJEAWoTbxoE9EPQ2vvOigIxK0Q6lPsF8tarHR9BFvuwURlx9A_i97yOf0rdVFAI_Xg9iZvyARKkp2ZpSpASgMwhY4Sa-OfkZGxUsN0DeNz2SYnvIX-2iN9rCwMDzc1Wm9O/s1600/TRAIN1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuqsalI_YY_zJEAWoTbxoE9EPQ2vvOigIxK0Q6lPsF8tarHR9BFvuwURlx9A_i97yOf0rdVFAI_Xg9iZvyARKkp2ZpSpASgMwhY4Sa-OfkZGxUsN0DeNz2SYnvIX-2iN9rCwMDzc1Wm9O/s1600/TRAIN1.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Moving on, as our train reached Pampore, the aroma from the saffron
felids filled the air with a heavenly fragrance. Again, I recomposed my
previous fouling experiences outside Kashmir. My Goodness, what a terrible smell
used to fill the air at some junctions. It smelled worse than the worst thing I
had ever smelled. Even more disgusting part was the scene presented by the
graffiti on the walls outside and the hoardings advertising the “aphrodisiac
curatives” with weird names like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dr.Bengali,
Japani Teel...</i> Yuk!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The last comparison was something that underlined my whole trip as
out of ordinary. It was like transcending from one age to another...BANG!! Both
the environments were totally opposite; the passengers, their opinions, their
dressings and their behavior, it was all poles apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one side the crowd in the Kashmir train
consisted mainly of the riffraff Kashmiri faces; Women veiled in purdah
and young village teenyboppers imitating their favorite Bollywood icons with
their spiky hair flooded in hair-gel…Ha-ha. On the other hand the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRailway&src=typd" target="_blank">Indian Railway</a>
crowd was more diverse starting from the “bihari” guys, “Sophisticated” elites,
the ladies who lunch, dudes carrying hi-fi gadget, potbellied uncle-jees,
Sari wore women and young lads carrying the newbie love novels, the “Chetan
Bhagat stuff”. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The Kashmir train was airing familiar sounds of diverse Kashmiri lingos;
the south accent, the north and the city. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Indian Trains, however, puffed my ears
with Punjabi, Hindi, Haryanvi, Bihari and what not. Almost all tangled with some
abusive adjectives. There were also the sounds of people trying to anglicize
their English speaking accent to sound more pompous...Huh! I felt uneasy; both
the times.</span><br />
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fun. And later when I reached back home, I rested myself in my room, staring at
the ceiling while looking amazed and recollecting my experiences in order to
find answers to my bewilderments that are still puzzled!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Today it’s the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">Republic day</a> of
India, a great zealous day for the “Largest democracy in the world”. But for <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmir&src=typd" target="_blank">Kashmir</a>, it’s
not just another holiday; it is the day of intuitive tensions, annoying frisking
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Well I, like my other peers, have
grown up in the turmoil-ridden streets of <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Srinagar&src=typd" target="_blank">Srinagar</a> where most of childhood was shackled
in concertina wires and trampled under Jackboots. I have smelled the smoke of shells and my ears are familiar with the deafening roar of guns. My poor vocabulary is well versed with terms like <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23curfew&src=typd" target="_blank">curfew</a> and crackdown. Each chaotic day that I
have survived has now turned more into a routine and hence habitual. But this day, the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">26<sup>th</sup> of January</a> has always
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">As I vividly remember, as a child #<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%2326Jan&src=typd" target="_blank">26Jan</a> was more like a
D-day for me and my peers. I was a kid and any opportunity to rejoice was
always welcoming for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was never curious to celebrate the day as a proud Indian but I was more curious to watch
the special republic day parade on TV. Although I am not a keen viewer of that
pomp and show anymore but I clearly remember how the TV program presented the
long-winded cavalcade of Indian pride bragging about their huge imported ammo
and the rich cultural diversity(that I really appreciate). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Arjun Tank, Bheem and other Hindi stuff sounded huge to my little mind.Huh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">L</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">ike my </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmiri&src=typd" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;" target="_blank">Kashmiri </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">brethren, I too was
confined to my home only to watch that special TV program followed by a reel of
patriotic Bollywood movies that programmed my tender brain and fed it with an
engineered affection towards the Indian Nation and definitely hate towards neighboring Pakistan.</span></div>
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to the TV set, desperate enough to get a glimpse of my home, Kashmir. I am not
really sure if the actors dressed in pheran and dancing on the Kashmiri tunes were
Kashmiris in real. But the way they imitated the various Kashmiri activities seemed
amusing. It was always about the pashmina shawls, dancing damsels and houseboats. But Kashmir
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Period! Time has
changed and hence “their” policies. I am a grown up now and so have “their” ways
of confining me and other <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmiri&src=typd" target="_blank">Kashmiris</a> to their homes. Now they welcome our <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">26th Jan</a> morning by blocking our mobile phone and internet signals in the name of "National security". I
reason they fear the tweets that bombard their image and devastate their reputation.
They fear the black banners that flood the social networking sites eating up
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Although the new policies have been engineered wisely but some old
ones still persist. The Republic day parade and “Desh-Bhakti” movies still
flood the Indian TV world the whole day only to add to the boredom of a common
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and rejoice the holiday with my peers, I am asked for my Identity and frisked
to such a level that surpasses the highest level of annoyance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The frisking and other “security” measures
are beefed-up a week ago heralding the coming of an unwelcoming day in Kashmir.
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on and iterates every year on <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">26<sup>th</sup> of January</a>. At the end of the day
when the celebrations in India are over and people start moving back happily to
their homes, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Kashmir&src=typd" target="_blank">Kashmir</a> is let free to speak, mourn, shout, cry and tweet. And now
when I am sharing all this I feel as if a curfew relaxation has been declared in
Kashmir only to make my mobile phone breathe again and my brethren take a sigh
of relief until the next <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IndianRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">R’ day</a> arrives. Till then I am suggested to keep
bombarding my tweets!!<br /><br />By the way <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HappyRepublicDay&src=hash" target="_blank">#HappyRepublicDay</a> to my Indian folks.<br />PEACE!</span></div>
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Abdul Wajidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999430780033671046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843267697520728878.post-42522771618893076482013-01-21T11:32:00.003+05:302015-01-21T10:35:44.062+05:30Gaw Kadal Massacre : A deafening silence!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Sometime back I visited a friend in Gow Kadal, one of the archaic parts of old Srinagar. The place is more famous for another reason, the bloody episode called as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GawKadalMassacre&src=hash" target="_blank"><s><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">#</span></s><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">GawKadalMassacre</span></b></a> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">that took place on 21st Jan, 1990.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">As I walked through the intricate busy streets of Basant bagh, across Gow Kadal Bridge towards Habba Kadal, an old rusty board hung at one of the wooden poles in memory of GawKadal Martyrs attracted my attention. It read some urdu text that was hardly legible because of the rust and deformation. And once I inquired from my friend who lives nearby, I was acquainted that the board was a placeholder to the memories of GowKadal Massacre. The text was old as were the memories of the gruesome day.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">I munched down over a dozen important pieces previously written on the same subject. </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Believe me it is not an easy task to read something again and again that makes you feel not only sad but discomforts your soul to screech out the deafening wail. Reading the disheartening compilations about the massacre, I couldn’t stop myself to pen-down my sadness or should I say my anger, that was boiling to vent out since I started to read the first piece. It seemed as if an ugly gulp of bloody imaginations was stuck at my throat, hard to swallow and even more hard to digest. I couldn’t, so I vomited out my feelings on paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">I cannot narrate in anyway the real pain of my brethren about how they were
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sufferings of </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23GawKadalMassacre&src=hash" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">#GowKaddalMassacre</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> and what followed. I could only lament over
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Let me have the pleasure to introduce you to the
noblest of the noble, the doctors. Call them angels or saviors; they are the
most prestigious one. Their field of medicine is a profession that has got a brilliant
scope both in this world and hereafter. </span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hilariously it’s
only a doctor who can do social service and that too without spending a single
cent from his pocket, Ha-ha! Plus more, it`s only him who never gets retired
from his job. </span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></i></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Well I am sure this may seem hard to digest for many
of my readers but I am sorry the angels dressed in the white don’t deserve the
place they are really offered. They are<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>rather
earthly like others and hence bound to make mistakes.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">That’s why I put up a
simple question: Do they really deserve accolades or what? N</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ow
follows the reasons for their downsides: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"; font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 28.0pt;"></span></i></b>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Doctors are very rightly taught all the physiology and
chemistry stuff. These longheaded creatures are good learners of medicine. Alas!
There is a big miss! The subject of human-conduct is missing somewhere in the
syllabus of their moral science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
this is a fact that`s very visible from their arrogant attitude minus some
handful exceptions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Right from their gestures to their gate, everything is
packed with pride. Their lady associates are more inclined towards the daily
soaps presenting trendy pompous doctor lifestyles. Their personalities always
seem to be hanging on the cloud 9. They are always in a rush and their hasty
speech confuses you; bang! What to have in the morning and what else in the
evening? This remains an enigma! Well, better take my advice and never think of
questioning them because they will never tolerate snooping, as they call it. It
will only earn you their wrath. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Now talking about the patients’ role in doctor`s life.
Well a patient is supposed to be the main facet in the life-cycle of a doctor.
In fact it`s him only by means of which a doc earns his living. But the irony
is that for a doctor, the patient is not more than a subject<i> (A lesson from
Muna- Bahi MBBS)</i>. In private practicing, the patient is only a money-making
machine and in government part, the subject is a headache. Moreover in the
former case, the docs try their level best to keep their patients buzzing
around their clinics and in the latter they don`t like to see their faces for a
second time. A patient is made to wait for hours for his turn and once the
patient is pinged to go in, it takes him not even a minute to get his poor self
examined properly and as such the patient is send back in a blink just with a
pack of pills and dissatisfaction. It really pains to see us greasing their
palms with our pricey darling bucks just for burning our own body with their
acids and alcohols. Period! Now another minus! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Their handwritten prescription is so illegible for a
common man that only a doctor or a patron chemist can decipher their coding. Possibilities
are also there that it may get misinterpreted and the result will be a chaos. Doesn’t
this astonish to see the writing of the big intellectuals so repulsive? Is this
the reason for their egoism? I ask the brainy heads. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Having said that let’s take a look over the exaggerated
importance given to the docs in our society. The fact is fairly crystal clear
that the medicine has <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ruled the roost</i>
in Kashmir for decades and will be positively doing so in the coming times as
well. There is a monopoly of this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mbbs </i>thing
among all the academics in Kashmir. Our society is badly infected with this
obsession towards the doctor’s profession. I call it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Obsessive Compulsive Doctor-philia</i></b>.
After class 10<sup>th</sup> everyone wants to become a doctor. It’s the number
one preference. All the time, parents keep compelling their wards “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mera
beta doctor baneyga</i></b>” without caring about their choice. All the medical
students crave to get into a medical college. They are ill-advised that in
medical field they have only two options: either a doctor else nothing. Why? I
ask you sirs. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Why is the medicine profession considered as the splendid
of all? Well the answer is obvious. There is something heavenly about this field
that makes people insanely to go after it. It’s a doctor getting a fine match
at the right time and it`s him again earning the most preference and kindness
in all the daily chores. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lastly I wind-up this piece with a plea to my dear
doctors: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Respected docs, I am not here to poke you for any of
your fault. No sir not at all. Everything has got its positives and negatives. In
fact I beyond doubt realize the fact that I stand nowhere in criticizing your wisdom.
I just want to lay out the opinion of a common man who expects loads of support
from his doctor which I am sorry I failed to find in your personality. It`s an
appeal from a common man: <i>“Please hear me sir; I beseech for your care,
attention and your affection. You don’t realize the fact that you are a
God-send angel for me, a cure to my ailments and an aid to my poor fellows. I
am not asking you for any <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Munna Bhai`s “Jado
ki jappi</b>”. But I only expect a simple kind word and a healing touch. Believe
me Doctor your single polite remark is far effective than thousands of your
drugs.”</i> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lastly I request to be excused for any criticism I
made to the noblest professionalism of medicine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Eid-ul-Azha, one of the God-blessed days of sacrifices
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<span class="usercontent"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“This is the day of Joy.</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span class="usercontent">This is the day of Felicitations.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">This is the day of forgiveness.</span><br />
<span class="usercontent">This is the day of Eid”</span></span></i><span class="usercontent"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, heralded my facebook status soon after the rooster’s </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">crowing
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After munching some overpriced bakery and
confectionary items, I dressed up for the Eid prayers to attest my presence in
the colossal congressional. The scene was no different from the previous Eids
in Kashmir. But some events marked this Eid as something new, trendy and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There were countless people thronging the ground
turned Eid Gah. But no xyz leader was visible at the sermon seat and no
rabble-rousing speech heard. It seemed like Kashmir Dispute was no more
disputed as it always had been on every Eid for the xyz leaders. Also “imported
beggars” with newly devised strategies multiplied along the length and
breadth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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new apparels imitating their pet heroes or heroines whatsoever. Young girls carrying
shiny purses looked hilarious with their bodies flooded with bangles, earrings
and other flashy trinkets. The boys on the other hand presented their naive
bully nature with an Ak47 in hand while pockets filled with other ammunition.
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importance of sacrifice but times have fatally changed and hence did the cult
of sacrifices. Now people outsource the job considering it tedious or
unfeasible. New professionals are cropping up who are just a phone call away
and do everything for you, right from slaughtering to distribution. No wonder in
this tech-savvy world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Times are changing and we can’t expect people stagnant
with one culture. <i>Eidi</i>, the monetary gift given to the children on Eid
has become more like a rigid formality. I don’t know how and when <i>Eidi</i>
turned monetary but it has been there even before I was born. I am sure the
concept had been started with a prosperous intention but now it has become more
like a give and take system… You scratch my back and I will scratch yours. This
is not any exchange of gifts and joys but a part of a plagued society that only
teaches us how the goddamn money flows.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As I finished my Eid prayers, I visited my aunt in the
old Srinagar city. Visiting downtown is always a delight for an art-loving guy
like me. The intricate nostalgic streets and old archaic muddy houses always
won my heart. But this time I was totally dumbfounded on watching something I
never watched before. A gang of some young boys were splaying a newfangled
kashmiri game that imitated stone pelting. The lads, who were merely 10,
divided the teams into two squads shooting stones at one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids have adapted things that were nowhere in
the list during my childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I vividly
remember the names like <i>Aab-e-Bandook</i>, <i>Taas-e-Bandook and Bagwaan
Taas </i>that ruled the roost. But now the young lads are admiring deadly ways
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young kids pelting stones on CRPF bunkers in real only for the sake of Eid fun.
HO! What if they retaliated with a gunshot or even more deadly PSA shot?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Moreover I found people have distanced themselves so
much that they prefer to greet one another on <i>facebook</i> even if the other
person is a next door neighbor. I feel pity for the tech-savvy Kashmiris,
myself included. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now if I talk of the extravagant bakery and other
palatable stuff, then I am sorry this article won’t fit in the limited space. Writing
this is only a trivial attempt of my meager perceptive. At the end, “You cannot
change the system”, goes the common statement. But I am happy because for me a
great day signed off with great returns and yes, puzzlement. And lastly as I returned
back with a good collection of bounty, a jam-packed tummy and some disappointment,
I laid on my bed, puzzled!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<b><a href="https://twitter.com/abdulwajid786" target="_blank">ABDUL WAJID</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> <span class="huge"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="huge"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i>Imran Khan, one of the apex figures in Pakistan cricket, once asked about Indian-Pak cricket match said, “Cricket
is a pressure game, and when it comes to India-Pakistan cricket match the
pressure is doubled”.</i></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Furthermore Wikipedia underscores the India-Pakistan<b> </b>cricket rivalry as
one of the most intense sport rivalries in the world. The giant encyclopaedia
says that an India-Pakistan cricket match attracts up to three hundred million
television viewers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Well, the criticality of the match
between India and Pakistan is undoubtedly always a high up, giving sleepless
nights to most of us. For me, any cricket match played between the two
arch-rivals, is more than just a game. Any India-Pak cricket match always makes me scratch my past and recollect a
haunting experience of watching the India-Pak world-cup match in 2011 among
some overly patriotic hardcore Indian fans outside valley. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I still remember the fateful
day when my destiny made me to watch the doomed match at one of my Indian friend`s
place which was my least preference; reason following on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It was a 10x12 shabby room immersed in
darkness with all lights shut-off. A small TV set held at one of its dirty corners
was the only source of scintillation lighting-up the faces present in the room. As I entered the
petite room, I was completely spell-bound with my mouth wide open, watching
around 20 guys sitting over one another all set to watch the “fanatically
essential match”. Fortunately I got myself adjusted somewhere around the
doorway where I could have some glimpse of the telly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As I rested myself in the
alien room, everyone gazed at me. I could vividly feel the anger towards me
since it was a one-to-many conflict of preference(Read as favoritism). I was sitting like a lame-duck and I felt like
everyone was filled with warlordism against me. But I stayed firm because I had
the complete sense of being an expat and that too a Kashmiri studying outside
Kashmir.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It was a match between the
worst foes of the history and I could clearly smell the hatred towards me. I
was not favoring the nation which they call their mother nor their players
whom they considered Gods. So everyone`s eye was on me. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Well I am not at all a pro-pakistani guy. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I don’t know the exact reason for the
extreme romanticism towards Pakistan when it comes to cricket, specially against India. And the reason cannot be religion. In that case I would have admired Bangladesh as well, which I don't.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If I dig into the reasons for not supporting the Inidan cricket team, I would say I was just born like that. I have seen bad things since my childhood that cannot be changed. Its in my psyche. Being more sentimental towards the Kashmir cause, I didn’t wish India to win for its grave human-right abuses in Kashmir. That's it. Period. One </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">pioneer writer
from the valley acknowledges the fact by saying
that it`s the hatred towards the brutal Indian policies on Kashmir that is moving the people of Kashmir
towards Pakistan(emotionally).</span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I knew it was not a safe bet to support
Pakistan yet my heart was beating for Afridi while my sanity favoring
otherwise.</span> But all this turned my friends into foes. Earning their wrath for
free I left the place a<span style="line-height: 115%;">s the match progressed in the favour of the Indians. I couldn`t tot up my broken courage to
face the defeat. So, prior to the end of
the match, I left the place and walked down the street all alone back to my
living room that was a couple of miles away. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Streets were deserted and I felt
that no one was accompanying me except my grief. I was about to reach my room
that a huge bam of crackers blasted and with that disheartened me understood
that India had finally won. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Following the grand triumph,
people went crazy all at once. All the night, Indian-fans boozed in liquor kept
beating the drums and thrashing the streets; should I say irrationally fever
pitched. Crackers filled the air to the fullest and the celebrations went on.
And my phone kept pinging with abuses from my mates. As this was not enough, the Indian news channels, as expected, got infested with the virus of exaggerating the win like anything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Huh!! that was a past; a bitter one. But relax, cricket is just a game and hence we should be the good takers of it as a sport. Nothing more and nothing personal...PEACE.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ABDUL WAJID PARRAY </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Today it was the International
Day for the Disappeared People, an event that made realize what I never
realized before...a four letter word called pain. Pain of a mother who lost her
only son to anonymous jackboots, pain of a father who died hoping to see his son again, pain of a devoted
wife who vanished her sight waiting for her other half, pain of a child who
knows not how a father looks and lastly the pain that I can never pen-down, no
matter how good I write. But a trivial attempt of my poor perspective dedicated
to all the unfortunate partakers in the event goes like this: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Kashmir</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">, the living
earthly paradise, needs no introduction as such. The Vale is very well
distinguished for its incredible landscape and for its awful tribulations;
unfortunately. Praising Kashmir here for its stupendous beauty is not the
argument but the subject matter is to present an ugliest part behind the beautiful
veil of paradise. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Before digging in, we need to understand the primary
aspirations of Kashmiris. To have a prosperous state, that is a peace center
for the entire world, is the primary aspiration of every commune and Kashmir is
no exception. The demand for good roads, jobs, banks, schools, health centers is
a familiar claim but above all is the right to self determination. But in the
dictionary of Kashmir there is no word like freedom needless to talk about the rest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Now “people” talk of reconciliations to facilitate a constructive
dialogue towards a lasting resolution. But I feel sorry rather pity for such less
learned people for their ignorance of facts. There is no good in brushing the
violations under the carpet by wiping a victim’s tears with political butter
known as ‘compensation’. Truth is that no fortune in this world can bring back
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To a noble soul it is not an easy task to pen-down the
sufferings of a nation. It needs a mountainous courage to summarize the bitter
facts. The Kashmir conflict has dented the whole valley both physically and
economically. We cannot acknowledge the quantum of the sufferings of the
Kashmiris in the real sense. It is an admitted fact that the whole valley is
under the fencing of stress, agony and pogrom. I can go on writing like this
for ages with my blood fused with pain and agony but my write-up cannot
describe or ascribe the real aches and pains of my brethren. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Before wrapping
up, I would like to share some precious words for all the occupied regions in
the world (here in context of Kashmir). These are actually the last words of <i>Rachel
Corrie</i>, one of the famous American Journalists, which she emailed to her
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">"No amount of reading, no conferences,
no documentary viewing and no word of mouth could present the reality and the
situation here in Palestine. You just cannot imagine it unless you see it
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Eid-ul-Fitr, the heyday of happiness and prosperity signed off all in
peace. All the believers who refrained
from “things” and all the <i>Deheldes</i> who consumed those “things”, <i>both</i>
rejoiced the Eid equally. Shunning the differences and disputes while
suspending the rest, people reaped the benediction of Eid. Fortunately I too
joined the same, this time at home in Kashmir...thank God.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The bazaars and parks were all packed with kids in their best clothes. Everything
minus some indecent pompous lads, presented a beautiful panorama. Little girls wearing
pinkish frocks attracted my eyes. The baby damsels carrying shiny purses looked
hilarious with their bodies flooded with bangles, earrings and other flashy trinkets.
The boys on the other hand presented their naive bully nature with an Ak47 in
hand while pockets filled with other ammunition. Ha-ha...needless to mention
the plaything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The D-day of Eid has always been the chief stimulator of adrenaline rush
in me and my peers. I vividly remember the level of excitement that I, my twin
sib and other two cousin brothers used to carry about the feverous day of Eid. We
used to keep a bookmark on the much common J&K Bank calendar, marking it
all over with our code words only to gauge the countdown to the upcoming Eid. I
still remember preparing long list of items to be bought on Eid. A doodling of the
crescent and a star served the purpose of the letter-head while the content was
filled with childish handwriting that was hardly legible. The list was tailored
on each passing day with some items removed while few more added as per our expected
“<i>Eidi” </i>budget. The contents, as I recollect, included mainly the fire
crackers with hilarious names like <i>Bagwaan Taas </i>and<i> Zebra Bangool</i>.
Our squad of four used a witty strategy of
buying the crackers from the wholesale market of<i> Maharaja Bazaar</i> in
almost half the market price. Indeed very witty at the age of 10, I must say. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Toy guns listed the top. I liked <i>Aab-e-Bandook</i>, the water
spattering gun while my brothers admired the <i>Taas-e-Bandook, </i>the cracking
toy pistols. The list also carried the eatables to rejoice and the places to be
visited on Eid. Eatables mainly included the junk food while places comprised of
well-known names like Mughal Gardens and Nehru Park. The trivial amusement park
at <i>Khankah</i> ruled the roost. We were insanely fond of its merry-go-rounds
that had seats with thrilling shapes in the form of jeeps, horses and airplanes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Everything was full of fun, amusement, joy, happiness and yes most
importantly satisfaction. Period! What Now? The fervor has lost all its glory.
I no more delight the same, except for some nice food. I reason probably because
now I have grown up. But that’s fine I don’t carry the love for toy guns,
crackers and joy rides anymore. I simply miss the passion with which I used to
welcome Eid. I miss the zeal of my childhood Eid, those innocent smiles and the
festive visits to friends and relatives….I miss them all. It feels like a vacuum has snatched all those past
heydays creating a big void. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Times have fatally changed and so did we. Now people visit one another
only to uphold the social implications rather than regarding one another in the
real sense. <i>Eidi</i>, the God-blessed monetary gift given to the children on
Eid has become more like a rigid formality. I don’t know how and when <i>Eidi</i>
turned monetary but it has been there even before I was born. It has become
more like a give and take system… You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.
If any “xyz” gives my son a hundred rupee note, then I have to return back not
less than that, no matter how poor my financial condition is. Kindly ponder
over this!! This is not any exchange of gifts and joys but a part of a plagued
society that only teaches us how the goddamn money flows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Moreover people have distanced themselves so much that they prefer to
greet one another on <i>facebook</i> even if the other person is a next door
neighbor. I feel pity for the tech-savvy Kashmiris, myself included. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Now if I talk of the extravagant bakery and other palatable stuff, then I
am sorry this article won’t fit in the limited space. Writing this is only a trivial
attempt of my meager perceptive. At the end, “You cannot change the system”, goes
the common statement. But I am happy because for me a great day signed off with
great returns and yes, puzzlement. And lastly as I returned back with a good
collection of bounty, a jam-packed tummy and some disappointment, I laid on my
bed, staring at the ceiling, puzzled!!! </span></span><br />
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engineering college. <i>“Happy Independence day”</i>, greeted one of my peers. <i>“What
Independence??”</i> I questioned back in wonderment. <i>“Well you are no more a
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Ho! Good old days, the heydays”,
I whisper to myself now, as I think of my college days. My college life was not any
hunky-dory type but quite satisfactory. I was one of the well-known faces of my
college, well-known for being a Kashmiri Muslim and somewhat for being good in academics
and other activities. Also my debating and hosting the college events had won
me a good number of admirers. I ruled the roast. Period!! What now? The game is
over. That part of me died a month ago. Now I am no more a student, not anymore.
I am no one in actual fact. My identity…as big as naught and as small as iota. Now I have a new name. They
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last one month now. Though I am not a clock-watcher or a couch potato, I rarely
go outside except for an interview. I restrict my social presence to the four
walls of my room with my only two aides- headaches and depression. God bless the
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asking my dad for a little money to have a simple haircut, not to talk of the money
needed to fill the job registration forms or should I say to fill the banks of the
employers. I have a conscience, and a sense of responsibility. How long can I
live the life of a remittance man? Many of my schoolmates who jumped into
business have made fortunes once they left the school. And what I have earned is
barely a degree worth I don’t know what. It makes me lament the loss.</span></span></span></div>
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like this. I have to explore for jobs and hence I do. I desperately do. But everywhere
I go, I find the big bosses asking for an experience or an expertise, the only
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is more valuable than a fresher but what if the latter proves more worthy once
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talent and cultivate it rather than murder it long before it blossoms. Let
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in the least bit what my poor sanity wishes is to roll back to the good old
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">March 30 Last year, I inscribed my sufferings on a similar column like this. Thanks to my hobby of writing I could get some space to express my otherwise numb pain. From last six years I am suffering </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">from a very common but ugly malady</span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> called as <i>Acne Vulgaris.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Commonly known as pimples, Acne is a dermal disorder that leads to the reddish appearance of papules on one’s face. The infection has a varying scale, starting from tiny spots to huge stinging pustules. <i> </i></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Being one of victims of this dermal problem I previously winded-up my daunting experience but sadly<i> Acne </i>is still daunting for me. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Many of my humble readers may be wondering at first as to why I am again underscoring Acne when there are other big issues to be considered in the first place. But what makes it worth revisiting is that the riddle of Acne is yet to be cracked by the brainy medicos<b> </b>who keep on prescribing their best sponsored drugs least bothering about the root cause. Secondly Acne is mainly associated with youth as it predominantly affects the latter only. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Youth, the teenyboppers, are sensitive to anything that has something to do with their looks. A young boy may somehow manage to cope up but for a female lad it’s no less some abuse to carry acne on her face. Besides in our society it is sadly true that an acne victim is more a victim to the plagued system than to the bacteria itself. The victim has to face the taunt-loving people because they are always out there only to poke you for your ill-fate. There is an inevitable situation leading to <i>inferiority-complex</i>, shattered confidence and low morale. Skepticism and other psychological issues harass every minute. Watching one’s face in a mirror or facing strangers particularly the opposite sex is the most maddening. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Honestly stating I doubt if medical science has benefited me in alleviating my sufferings in anyway but I am sure my syndrome can be much beneficial to the dermatology. I can be the prima facia subject for studying acne, probably the best. I have bought docs with diverse expertise to experiment with my face that has now transformed into an eroded area with evident crests and troughs, thanks to their acids and alcohols. It has been more than five years now, as my poor sanity remembers, since these cruel bacterium invaded my face. Six years passed since then but how patient one needs to be for witnessing some improvement, I still wonder. The issue is still unresolved, much the same way like the ticklish Kashmir issue. Ha-ha... I think I will die wondering why? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">In my six years of fight with acne hardly I came to meet a doc who could satisfy my poor sanity with one good reason behind acne. Some believe in the age factor while the others keep blaming the oils and unruly hormones. Also another class formulated a cyclic theory which I believe is somewhat agreeable, Thank god. The theory says that acne and psyche are iterating in a deadlock. The more severe the acne, the more depression it causes and vice-versa and thus the victim gets jailed in an infinite loop forever.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">No doubt drugs helped me somewhat but only for the time being I used to fill my stomach with the scary pills. As soon I left taking the antibiotics, the acne reappear as if rejuvenated. How long can one burn his internal anatomy with antibiotics only to see a little change outside? This question will always wonder me. English, Unani, Ayurvedic, German homeopathy, Desi peer fakirs, seers; everything I did tried but nothing proved to be the lasting solution, unfortunately. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Being well-versed with acne while holding my six year experience certificate of being an acne victim, I can very well suggest my therapy for acne. I believe it is only the time that is the best healer. And as I mentioned in my previous article, “<i>It`s a big waste to grease the palms of docs with your pricey darling bucks just to burn your own face with their acids and alcohols.”</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Well I am here not reviewing an article that was complied overseas but to present the crux of the matter that is to underline the importance of the heedful youth in building a nation. One such weighty effort in bringing the youth at par is the international youth forum. Popularly known as “IYF”, the international youth forum is a renowned community of youth with a sharp intellect that work for the noble cause of leading the nation to success. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The working theme of IYF is pivoted around the youth only. Reason being the immense potential carried by the youth. Youth are dynamic and full of energy. They have a vision and a constructive intellect that helps them steer along any tempest. Every youth, no matter where they belong, carry the same liveliness. Today nations stand out completely demarcated from one another with clear cut man-made boundaries but it’s the youth who bridge the gap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">IYF aims to hone the youth intellect, their personality, their expertise and their exposure to the dynamic world of opportunities. As a part of this constructive course IYF is holding an international conference in Noida India. Everyone one who calls himself a conqueror youth or dreams to be one is welcome to attend the unique conference by IYF. So IYF hails all the art-lovers, technocrats and intellects to come forward and hold the torch to enlighten their nation. Last of all winding-up with the parting message from IYF for the youth: <b>“Rise and shine.” </b></span></div>
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