Power who has separated the two communities of #Kashmir By Sanjay Bhat It was a summery day and i was on a visit to one of my relatives at jagti Camp Jammu. At the evening time i saw some old Kashmiri people talking with each other in one of the Govt community park. At once it came to my mind that I personally didn’t want them to have a chit chat at this refugee community park. Instead I wanted them to have the same discussion regarding their daily life at their own fruit orchids /crop fields in their home land kashmir with their muslim and pandit brothers. I started thinking about what it was that made the two best friends separate from each other. Although they were from the two different communities but they were the best of friends who had shared their joys and sorrows from decades. It reminded me off one of the personal experiences I had regarding the cohesive bond of the two communities. During 2010, I was invited by one of my kashmiri muslim friend Muzaffar at his residence in Rajbagh Srinagar where he was putting up at a rented house. As soon as his landlord came to know that a Kashmiri hindu boy has arrived at his home, he came to me. He asked me “ are you a pandit” I said, yes I am a pandit. Landlord Haji sahab (name given to person who visits Haj once in a lifetime) was very happy to see that even this generation is sharing the same friendship that they were following. Soon he assigned me a work of finding out his old Kashmiri pandit friend Mr wali somewhere living in jammu. I told him that it is not an easy job to find out some unspecific person that too from a community which is already scattered over the whole country. I never wanted to give him false assurances as I could see that his eyes were full of emotion. He shared with me the experience of their togetherness. How he used to take Mr wali’s baby boy and baby girl on his shoulder for a walk almost every day in the evening. His eyes were full of tears while narrating to me. I wondered why Mr wali did not ever try to communicate with haji shab over the years even in the era of 21th century where the communication facility has reached to every corner of the world. May be Mr wali was afraid of coming back to Kashmir to see haji sahib or may be Mr wali had forgotten his old friend Haji sahib. But Haji sahib surely had not forgotten him. His love for his friend was not shattered even by the long period of over 20 years. What kind of emotional bonding is this I started thinking. But at the same time i am worried about the next new generation from both pandit and muslim ends who wont be sharing the same feelings with each other I have another example from my home itself. My father occasionally makes phone calls to one of his best friend named Mushtaq sahib at kashmir. The calls are made from both ends on priority on Eid, Diwali and shivratri to congratulate each other and to share their joys and sorrows. The question still remains in my mind what is that power who has separated the two communities. Is it politics, militancy? What is it exactly? One thing I know very surely that militancy is no body’s friend, and I cant forget massacre like bejebhara & Chatti Singh Pora not the incidents like Kunan Posh pora & Wandhama It is against humanity. Pandits have been forced to live in tenements from the last 20 exiled years, while Muslims living in trauma and stress, Pandits have been moved to townships but not to their homes. It is different thing living in an exiled situation without basic amenities like electricity, water medical facilities etc. It is a tent or concrete building. Home is where you are born not the exiled location. Every one of us is missing that. We have lost so many innocent Kashmiri pandits over the span of last 23 years. On the other hand we have also lost people from Muslim community be it be year 2010, 2013 or other incidental years. We as a human being must not forget that a human is being killed, be he/she a pandit, muslim or sikh. All are humans and sons/daughters of their beloved mothers. All mothers feel the same pain seeing their children in pool of blood. WHAT has caused this bloodshed? Instead of killing this WHAT why are we unnecessarily continuing this bloodshed?
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:38:10 +0000
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