Kausarnag, in Kashmir, is a place revered by the Hindus who now stand expelled from the Valley since 1990. Kausar is the distortion of the original Sanskrit name Krama-sarovar. And nag is what a natural spring is called in Kashmiri. This spring is the source of River Vishoka (Veshav in Kashmiri). Vishoka, incidentally, means the remover of grief. Among the, predominantly Shaivite, Hindus of Kashmir, Kausarnag is revered as a sacred place of Vishnu and also referred to as Vishnupaad. Not even fifty pilgrims, essentially comprising exiled Kashmiri Pandits from various parts of India, summoned enough courage this year, to revive their centuries old but Jihad-disrupted pilgrimage to Kausarnag.Their strenuous trek that would have taken them to an altitude above the tree-line, has been stopped even before it began. All because, Geelani mobilised the Muslims of the Valley to thwart the Yatra. Geelani sees in it a design by the RSS to dilute the Muslim identity of Kashmir. He also feared that these fifty pilgrims may destroy the fragile ecology of the region. We are Hindus, supposedly living in a free India.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:42:32 +0000
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