Time for retrospection.
"A female constable of paramilitary force checking the medical papers of a pregnant women in agony".... Shame?
My cousin has just returned home after three days. He had gone to attend his friends’ sister’s wedding in the outskirts of the City and before the yenil was over the valley was put under curfew. Today, somehow he managed to reach home but now it turns out that it has been an ordeal. What really surprised me was not what he had to face himself but some foreigners who had been caught unawares. While driving back home he was stopped by a local police officer who out of concern for the foreigners asked him to ferry them , two elderly ladies from England and one from US, to Dalgate. When he reached Khanyar, he was stopped by the paramilitary personnel that greeted them all with some choicest abuses and invectives. They were horrified and rightly so, because they couldn’t understand what on earth had they done. They tried to react by asking the police to be a little civil and not use the foul language they were not used to. My cousin intervened and advised them to stay calm or else they all would land in worse trouble. After a lot of pleading he was asked to move with a warning “ In goron ko samjao ki woh zyadah pattar pattar na karen, or else we have every reason to book them as enemy agents”.
The ordeal did not stop there. While coming back homewards after dropping them, he was detained for about 2 hours. It did not matter that he had taken those foreign ladies at the behest of a police officer. I feel it did convey many things because in between an interesting story came up. My cousin picked up conversation with a friendly Jawan standing next to him, thinking that it might help him to be released a little earlier. In his discussion the paramilitary constable expressed what must have been bugging him for many days. “You people abuse us, provocatively dance in front of us , throw stones, raise slogans for azadi and at times attack our bunkers. We have been directed to restrain ourselves against all these provocations but this time you say something that hits our hearts, “Ragda Ragda *******” . For us Bharat is our mother. Would anyone bear that his mother is abused or disgraced, would you, he asked in a hurtful tone. You raise Pakistan Zindabad slogans. We know it’s at their behest that you behave the way you do, and yet you expect us to welcome you with open arms. We do not mind when you say Azadi, or slogans attributed to Independence, because even India fought for independence and many people lost their lives for it, but something that involves our faith, our honour and our pride we will not compromise with that. It took me a while to understand the psyche of the paramilitary personnel out their, it did interest me. Eventually, my cousin was let off. If I value my opinion shouldn’t I let others have theirs? Shouldn’t this be a food for thought for all the us.
We don’t want Pakistan- surely not all of us then why should we even discuss it but at the same time it does not justify the killing of 40 innocent civilians in the past 10 days . You cannot use a bullet for whatever reasons. Dont we say India is a democracy then why do we forget that in Kashmir .
Let me know what you feel because I couldn’t get an answer. I hope you do.
(Tanvir Sadiq can be mailed at tanvirm123@yahoo.com )
7 comments:
May be its out of excitment that people shout slogans like that , but yes if we restrain ourselves from doing so, will we be judged as peaceful agitators, for if we all were displined.
It was intresting
Ragda Ragda Pakistan ...
Ragda Ragda Geelani.
Its an irony that even being a kashmir we have to prove that we are kashmirs . Shame on Soldiers
Bullet is no answer to any form of resisitance unless a voilent one where guns are from th eother side also , kashmiris were peacufully agitating . then why bullets
why dont india leave us alone, we die or we get destroyed , we will see our own fate . India is killing us everyday . Shame on Bhatrat
My god how do you justify a pregnant women showing to a female cop that she has to be hospitalised.
For god sake india , where is the honour and dignity and democracy you brag about
To so called pujaris of Ahimsa
WHEN FATHER WAS KILLED AND SON WAS SHOT WHO HAD GONE TO FETCH MILK
WHEN WOMEN WERE SHOT DEAD.
WHEN BABIES WERE DENIED FOOD.
WHEN PEACEFULL PROTESTORS WERE SHOT IN THE HEADS.
WHEN PEOPLE DIED ON ROAD SIDES FOR WANT OF TREATMENT.
WHEN DOCTORS WERE STOPPED TO GO TO HOSPITALS TO TREAT THE INJURED.
WHEN DEAD BODIES WERE DENIED FUNERAL.
WHEN MOSQUES WERE LOCKED.
WHEN PRESS WAS GAGGED.
WHEN SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE WERE HELD HOSTAGES IN THEIR HOUSES
AND DENIED BASICS OF LIFE.
Then news comes that hundreds of trucks arrived with essentials into the valley of (kashmir) death
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