THE POWER OF YOUTH

Why are we so voilent today?

Its 15 august and and India is celebrating its 62nd independence day but as usual everything has come to a standstill. My cell-phone wouldn’t stop with friends, well wishers, and relatives calling to ask what the situation is like .No one knows what will happen, everybody is as ignorant and as confused as the Governor of J&K is. No body knows the way out but one thing is clear, this is not going to stop so easily. As usual the rumor mills have started showing its existence. It’s like taking sadistic pleasure over dead bodies. Everyone who is someone is taking about every thing and anything. Just heard yet another meeting was concluded without any fruition. Kashmir is in a state of shock and no body knows how to come out of it.
I been wondering why has the issue gone out of hand and become more violent, there is more resilience, the resolve is much stronger then it was in 1989. I have an argument. Kashmir has been known for its hospitality and brotherhood, lived peacefully with hardly 1% crime rate. When the uprising began in 1989-90 people were still wondering how to react, this was the time when people wouldnt get time to have their meals because of the amount of work and tourist influx in the state. If you compare various age groups since the tumult began you might get an answer. Kids who were in the age group of 1-7 then would be 18-25 now and they have only seen death, destruction, violence, physical abuse continuous oppression, scandals and their politicians making hay in the name of people’s welfare. With information super highway under their finger tips and the whole world opening before their eyes, there is both hate and anger about what they see around themselves. An orphan child who lost his only bread earner when he couldn’t even walk properly, saw his mother working as a machine to educate him, run the family , and when he grew up he was asked to pay to get a job buy none other then the system we live in. Our so called leaders used them for public rallies, posters and everything. At the end of the day he was traumatized, depressed, and disillusioned, He agreed to the fact that he was a failure. In a way an indigenous INTIFADA was born.

Its needs a Jesus to resurrect the dead or calm them down, The youth have taken the lead, You can only address them by talking to them, make them feel you care for them, make them feel they are wanted , they are as important for the country as is a youth of Mumbai , Delhi, Bangalore or any other place. Should a stone be welcomed by a bullet, the time is not very far when guns will rule again. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint

RAGE & RUMOUR

38 deaths in 48 hours, welcome to Indian Democracy!

It’s around 9.30 in the evening; the atmosphere looks very tense, it looks like the whole srinagar is on streets , pro-freedom slogans are reverberating in every nook and corner. Men, women and children taking to the roads at night is a grim reminder of early nineties. All the TV channels, Phone’s, Newspaper’s are talking about deaths. The news of injured people succumbing to their injuries is pouring from all corners of the city. Although some Leaders did appeal for peace, but it wouldnt be of much help because on ground the situation is different. If you ask me , a person with even an iron heart will be scared. IT is very Tense?

Earlier the day ,it was a state of anarchy and lawlessness, you couldn’t find eatables, medicines or essentials supplies and people were sufferings. I got a call from the City’s premier hospital SKIMS and it was unfortunate to hear that the critically injured outnumbered the staff. Though I heard Doctors did their job quite well but even they were not spared .It was mayhem out there.
The Rumors Mills were working overtime; I am numbering some well taken rumors of the city and may be true also

• CRPF men go berserk kill many injure scores, people in retaliation
  torch PDP Ex- MLA's house.
• Shabir Shah a Hurriyat leader Kidnapped by
  nobody knows who.
• Jammu will be separated from the rest of J&K, it’s
  been decided.
• Girls will have to were (Burqa) veil strictly now.
• A city councilor’s house was damaged after he refused to spare his car to ferry an injured person to the hospital.
• Two youth driving a Motor bike were stripped naked, their motorcycle burnt and sent back home by paramilitary forces.
• A person was ruthlessly beaten, because after the mob checked his car they found PDP letter heads.
• NDTV correspondent Beaten by people for not covering the Kashmir story properly.
• People have taken over the army Cantonment area.

You like it or not but no civil society will agree that what happened from past 2 days should have occurred in the first instance. Kashmir needs to be heard and it’s the Indian’s , from all walks of life who have to rise and come to the rescue of the ordinary Kashmiri’s. This is the time to own them, this time words may not help, but action will.