A few daysback i watched a documentary about the sikh riots in India just after Indira Gandhi was killed.Iam familiar with the issue because interestingly,i was born that very year and also just 3 days before she was murdered.I used to hear the stories from my parents,that how my father used to come and meet my mother and me in curfew,and how my mother experienced more than just baby blues because of the situation.But when I saw that documentary it all just was alive and re living in my thoughts, the terrible experiences of the people,of their relatives and how suddenly a day made thousands of people into brutal killers?A common man killing so shamelessly on the streets......any how i was stunned,a bit difficult to take in that it all happened in my city where i was born and raised.Next time I go to Delhi it would be hard not to look at strangers and think about those killers still living and living with all that they did.
Sikhs or for that matter of fact any religious community except Hindus,who are in majority can feel safe living in India.India is a secular country,so many cultures,languages......one might feel the sense of pride thinking all this,but reality is that its now a Country waiting to be in pieces.......
Be it Kashmir which is a disputed land and there is army which is ruling the people.There is hardly any involvement of the Indian government in the upliftment of the people of Kashmir.No one thinks about the economic growth and infrastructure of Kashmir.All the debate is for a piece of land,not its people and their lives.Its a country which sleeps peacefully over the killings of innocent lives.
Maharashtra has its own dominant voice of the Marathi speakers.Anyone or Anything which is not Maharashtra born is not good enough to live there.The city which is a dreamland for people who come for work became a nightmare and Indians were literally thrown out of this part of secular India.Why don't these terrorists get arrested?India is now seeing a new enemy,these people don't even see fellow hindus as their co habitants but its now a mere region and its language which is a reason for this revulsion.India is now seeking division not in the name of religion but region.
India lets say has the minimum tolerance to Muslims,where it comes to hatred.Indian muslims are greater in number than muslims in Pakistan but because they have a similar religion Indian muslims are often targets of being pro Pakistan.The number one enemy of India,since its Independence.Muslims have been shown time and again how much they are unwanted and hated in different parts of India.Riots in India are not uncommon and can be inflicted with the smallest of incidents.People can loose all their sense in the name of religion.
The fact that Islam is the second biggest religion after hinduism in india doesn't help,If muslims were a small minority I think it would be less threatening and less of an ego issue to the majority India.
Parts of India where dalits and poor are dying of hunger,there religion does not even mater to them anymore.There is no help no source of income and even selling their own children to survive.Its a shame that people die of hunger in this rising economy. Its a shame for all those people who are in power but are useless.
Each part of india be it Assam or Tamilnadu, Kashmir or Maharashtra....and in future there will be many more and its very unfortunate that India is doing this to itself.....
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Monday, 1 February 2010
A CRY FOR KASHMIR
My very first trip to Kashmir was quite an experience, because it was not a leisure trip or a holiday but I hesitantly travelled all the way to Kashmir to meet my in laws for the first time and get MARRIED! Kashmir, the name which was in newspapers and news channels for all the wrong reasons, never in my wildest dreams I (a darpok) thought I would go there.My only imagination, about the place was,just lots of army men and lots of them, curfews, bomb blasts and there might be a bullet heading only towards me from somewhere!!No I am not joking!
Throughout my journey, Marriage was the last thing on my mind,all I could think was I might get killed there or my family.The most horrific thoughts one can ever imagine!
When we got there in Srinagar,the capital of Kashmir,it was busy not as busy as Delhi but fairly busy and the city was Normal(Thank god).So Kashmir wasn't Afghanistan or Iraq,It very much seemed a place in India,there was a connection.But i was so reluctant to come out of my thoughts from the picture I had made up,My mind refused to look at the beauty and perfection of the Dal lake,it was so serene and the whole place had a saintly silence.From the Hotel balcony i could look at the Dal for hours,could have looked at each colourful shikara and houseboat,one would pay anything to see the sunsets and the mountains which surrounded the whole place like they are guarding the loveliness and being the only undeviating lovers of this heaven.
But,sadly I did none of that,who knows there might be a bullet heading towards me,if i step out of my room,what a fool I was!I wish I had taken full advantage of my first encounter with this heavenly abode.
The only stories we are familiar with are unfolded by the media,no one I knew had or wanted to experience first hand account of the place,Kashmir.After five years of marriage and coming accross the actual facts of the people I met and spoke to,saddens me deeply........
No one knows what Kashmiris have and are going through,Its a far cry,which the rest of the India refuses to hear.We are proud Indians,who are proud that Kashmir is a part of India and Pakistan can never come close to even have a glance.Kashmir has always been talked and spoken about as a non living entity,without any soul.Just a mere winning trophy for India. Kashmir has always seemed a part of us yet so foreign and forgotten.Yes, forgotten is the right word....No one thinks about the lakhs of living beings and their pain and their identity.
How does it feel being humiliated and beaten in your own motherland, How does it feel to go out of the house with a constant fear,how does it feel being questioned and killed with no reason......
Kashmir never belonged to India nor it belonged to Pakistan,Its a truth may be bitter for us Indians,because we were deliberately made unaware of this fact.Kashmiris were promised a fair vote,a fair chance of choosing,a choice every human being deserves and has a right.
Kashmir is a witness of hell and beyond.The world's biggest democracy has sent the Army not to protect but to terrorise,not to spread happiness but hate n detest.Democracy is a mere word and
an unpracticed institution.
Kashmir is waiting.............is anyone listening?
Throughout my journey, Marriage was the last thing on my mind,all I could think was I might get killed there or my family.The most horrific thoughts one can ever imagine!
When we got there in Srinagar,the capital of Kashmir,it was busy not as busy as Delhi but fairly busy and the city was Normal(Thank god).So Kashmir wasn't Afghanistan or Iraq,It very much seemed a place in India,there was a connection.But i was so reluctant to come out of my thoughts from the picture I had made up,My mind refused to look at the beauty and perfection of the Dal lake,it was so serene and the whole place had a saintly silence.From the Hotel balcony i could look at the Dal for hours,could have looked at each colourful shikara and houseboat,one would pay anything to see the sunsets and the mountains which surrounded the whole place like they are guarding the loveliness and being the only undeviating lovers of this heaven.
But,sadly I did none of that,who knows there might be a bullet heading towards me,if i step out of my room,what a fool I was!I wish I had taken full advantage of my first encounter with this heavenly abode.
The only stories we are familiar with are unfolded by the media,no one I knew had or wanted to experience first hand account of the place,Kashmir.After five years of marriage and coming accross the actual facts of the people I met and spoke to,saddens me deeply........
No one knows what Kashmiris have and are going through,Its a far cry,which the rest of the India refuses to hear.We are proud Indians,who are proud that Kashmir is a part of India and Pakistan can never come close to even have a glance.Kashmir has always been talked and spoken about as a non living entity,without any soul.Just a mere winning trophy for India. Kashmir has always seemed a part of us yet so foreign and forgotten.Yes, forgotten is the right word....No one thinks about the lakhs of living beings and their pain and their identity.
How does it feel being humiliated and beaten in your own motherland, How does it feel to go out of the house with a constant fear,how does it feel being questioned and killed with no reason......
Kashmir never belonged to India nor it belonged to Pakistan,Its a truth may be bitter for us Indians,because we were deliberately made unaware of this fact.Kashmiris were promised a fair vote,a fair chance of choosing,a choice every human being deserves and has a right.
Kashmir is a witness of hell and beyond.The world's biggest democracy has sent the Army not to protect but to terrorise,not to spread happiness but hate n detest.Democracy is a mere word and
an unpracticed institution.
Kashmir is waiting.............is anyone listening?
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