The recent acrimonious circumstances of war-mongeringwere looming large on our heads, and ashuman beings, we were terrified. The unsettling circumstances of a nuclearmagnitude were appearing like a monster of fright everywhere. We wererecollecting as to who was the author of the ‘Book of Our Doom, and of which wehave to be shackled with till our doom in all-togetherness comes and we will belaid to rest or eternal unrest.
We were always restrained with fetters and our pinion was Saw-toothed which had sawn us from themoment of a scream of birth. Since then screams did not end . Tears did notcease and our graves did not cease from becoming overflowed.
When our wings were bound, and the wings were cut off, and agradual dose of assimilation of the diagnosis began to slip down our throat. Westarted compromising our independent right to live, otherwise guaranteed byevery charter of liberty and independence of the world.
This was not over, and a day came when we had to see soulsalso getting colonized. This halpless community draped the shoulders of theCaptains of the ship of wealth with ‘Pashmeena’ and ‘Shawl-dushalas’. Theskilled creators of these artifacts shivered themselves in the murmur of icywinds, and didn’t drape themselves but endeavoured always to combat theirpaupership.
Shown to the full inhabitants of the world atlas that thecommunity is a versatile_ genius, and its intellectual pinnacle has might tomatch any other summit of intelligence in the world.
It is because the community threw to sight the intellectuals, artists, craftsmen, scientists, economists and legal luminaries etc. With all that it never divorced its inborn and inbuilt chaste attribute of being compassionate, merciful, tender_hearted, generous and hospitable.
Those who saw India as a land of their right in the enhanced peril and fear, they continued to sell their artifacts in Kolkata, Lucknow; they spread the fragrance of the dry fruit and its remarkable deliciousness in the cities, they were abruptly thrashed, looted, violently booted, beaten and lashed out.
The poor vendors posed to themselves a question”why?”.
This was the world of trade which was vandalised by thegoons of hate and bigotry…who had a track record of criminality upto murders.Now the world of intellegentia was molested and doctors, the students of highereducation in science etc were assaulted in their hostels.
This beautifully coincided with the tradition of hospitalityin Kashmir.
All the hoteliers spread helpline numbers on the screen ofmedia, WhatsApp, YouTube etc. When they offered free accommodation and fullboarded lodge facilities to the stranded people and stranded tourists. They didwelcome them with their arms open, and rose free from all consideration ofcolour, creed and caste.
This requires to be recognised, a ray of hope from Kashmirin the gathering gloom…as the Mahatma Gandhi had recognised the ray of hopefrom Kashmir when the full subcontinent was ablaze and bleeding in 1947.
This intention to pen down all this decorating attribute ofour golden valley is in no sense to show as if a Himalayan favour was done tothe stranded dependents. It essentially aims to identify the trashing ofKashmiri vendors etc.
With the outrageous infamous things, who are neck deep inhate , animosity, inhuman acts and bigotry.
The Supreme Court of India had to come to the rescue of these innocent Kashmiris. Is it not a monumental contrast?
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