Ehsaas-e-Kashmir – “A Gestalt”

The economy generatingmiddle class seems to be unhappy too. “The valley observed completeshutdown, and pumping in of funds exceeding the estimated cost of 35 crores and more. The same money could have been utilized for making the state economically independent and new ventures would have surfaced,” comments a corporate worker, Faizaan Mir. The money was spent for the pointless entertainment of the elite, for just 120 minutes, where on the other hand, some families are forced into socially degraded occupations due to them (as they keep the resources blocked within them), women manhandled and old deserted; the money could have been used for the betterment of the people who really need it,” says Mohsin Khan, a government employee who seems to have an un-enjoyable holiday at home.

“Had the Chief Minister just given us the right to live peacefully and stop being a Delhi-puppet and vandalizing our culture and brotherhood along with his other politicians,sibs and the Opposition, Kashmir would indeed be a heaven, soughtafter. What has happened to us is just because of political incongruity,” says 56 year old Amar Pal Singh, working for the banking sector.

While some of the other sections of society look at it from a different spectrum. “There are going to be a lot of positive paradoxes, the Kashmir issue is going to come in the eyes of non-political people too, the WashingtonPost andthe New York Times have been flooded with articles in the backdrop of the Kashmir dispute, so in a way, it has been ayet again global exposure to the Kashmir issue, with a German brush up this time, and the best thing is that international journalists are going to include a separatist agenda too”, says Dr.Irfan, with a pensive mood, while being held up by barricades on the way to the hospital, to minimize the traffic for security purpose to ensure goodwill to the concert.

While the elite were puffing their worries with the loony tunes of Mehta, on the other hand, how could it not be that he would not leave an Israeli after effect.Once again, to Kashmir’s bleeding heart, it lost four ofits youth in Shopian, south Kashmir to the indiscriminate firing of the Central Reserve Police force. Within no time of this action, they were named as militants, but as the identities revealed, according tothe locals, they were mere civilians, one of whom was 18 year old Tawseef Ahmed Bhat, .Meanwhile, in BudshahChowk in Srinagar, a civilian car was open fired at, leaving the driver and accompanying two women in a pool of blood. As soon as this play with the weapon was over, and the target accomplished, friction ignited, at the cost of human lives; although there is no problem with that, for one should remember that it isKashmir, where human life has no value. If it has, itis only a rightto be treated as humans, given to the Americans and Israelis with heinous war crimes and injustices in their kitty, while according to them, the rest should be completely wiped out of the face of the earth until they serve the Zionist agenda, ; they are useless urchins on the earth, bound to be taken rid of. Hundreds of people thronged the streets in protest, and one is quite assured that it must have reached the deaf in Shalimar Bagh, and the tunes of Zubin could not create the aura; it was a shame to music, where the resentment and oppression in the people was too evident, the reverberations were damped too, in the atmosphere of the sorrowful Kashmir.

Meanwhile, the surge of the undercurrent is thatthe hurt is too deep for the common Kashmiris to get healed, and why not, when it is fuelled with fresh blood every now and then. The futile step taken in the speech of Mr. Omar Abdullah, where he announced his general failure to take the Kashmiris out of ‘conspired living hell’,is itselfa style statement, making it clearer that all these people are up there, not to do good but to goof up the last shirttails left after the plunder of so many years.Every now and then, whenever such people come, they just inflict misery and augment the pain and repression and get the Kashmiris simmered in the blood of their sons. What more welcome would be given to you, when you intentionally come to hurt, create fissure, vent mistrust. Let’s see how far they still go, for the bugle has been blown; whilethe concert was leaving, the Azaan resonated, as if giving them the final ultimatum, that the wrath of Allah is still in store, and the time of respite is nearing to an end. Allahu Akbar!

Exclusively, Team Aalaw
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