COWARD AND APATHETIC: KASHMIRI PUNDIT

TAKE A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE WHO STRINGENTLY RETALIATE TO EVERY ISRAELI ATTACK, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MUCH FEEBLE THAN THEIR OPPONENTS. IRAQIS, CONTINUE TO BRUTALLY ATTACK THE AMERICAN LED COALITION FORCES, WHO HAVE CAPTURED THEIR MOTHER LAND. THEIR MIGHTY FORCES STILL CANNOT DARE TO BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE ANNEXED THE NATION. WE MUST APPRECIATE THE SHEER DETERMINATION OF THESE PEOPLE, WHO DARE TO LAY THEIR LIVES TO EVACUATE THEIR MOTHERLAND FROM THE JAWS OF FOREIGNERS.
THAT’S DEVOTION

KASHMIRI PUNDITS VERY OFTEN GET NOSTALGIC ABOUT THEIR MOTHERLAND, AND WITH AN EMOTIONAL OUTBURST MUMBLE “DAM TO THOSE BASTARDS”. A PATRIOTIC PUNDIT DOES NOT HAVE THE HEART TO GO BACK! RECOLLECTING THE MEMORIES DEPRESSES THEM PROFOUNDLY, BUT TRY TO OVER COME THEM, WITH A DEEP BREATH.
THE HATRED AND FURY AGAINST THOSE ISLAMIC RADICALS STILL EXISTS, BUT PREFER TO KEEP IT SUPPRESSED. LET THEM GO TO HELL IS WHAT THEY QUALM, WHILE TRYING TO OVER-COME THE BITTER MEMORIES AND GET ON WITH NORMAL LIFE. THAT’S APATHY

THE VOLCANO OF ANGER IN THEIR HEARTS NEEDS TO ERUPT. WE CANNOT WAIT FOR THINGS TO HAPPEN, WE HAVE TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN WITH OUR STRUGGLE AND EFFORTS. WE MUST REUNITE AND SOLIDIFY AS ONE, AND NOT FORGET THE GENOCIDE OF OUR PUNDIT COMMUNITY, WHICH ULTIMATELY LED TO THE EXODUS OF THE REMAINING ONES.

PEOPLE OF VIETNAM FOUGHT THEIR HEARTS OUT AND MADE THE AMERICANS FLEE THEIR HOMELAND, THROUGH INNOVATIVE GUERILLA FIGHTING. THE WOUNDS OF THAT WAR ARE STILL LICKED BY THE “INVINCIBLE” AMERICANS.
THE AFGHANS FOUGHT THE DEADLY SOVIET FORCES TILL THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD IN THEIR VEIN, AND MANAGED TO DRAG THEM OUT OF THEIR MOTHERLAND. THAT’S PATRIOTISM!

THEY ALL HAD ONE SINGLE MOTIVE, TO FREE THEIR MOTHERLAND FROM THE CLUTCHES OF INVADERS.
WE MUST DERIVE SOME INSPIRATION FROM THESE GRITTY PEOPLE, WHO ARE ALWAYS READY TO LAY THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR NATION.
ON THE CONTRARY WE PREFERRED TO ABANDON AND EVACUATE OUR MOTHERLAND, RATHER THAN EVACUATING THEM. THAT COWARDNESS!

THEY TURNED OUR DREAMS INTO NIGHTMARES WHICH CONTINUES TO HAUNT US, BUT WE COULD NOT DO ANYTHING.
THEY SLAUGHTERED US LIKE CATTLE’S, DRILLED OUR EYES, BURNED US ALIVE, REDUCED OUR HOMES TO ASHES, MOLESTED OUR FEMALE POPULATION AND WE REMAINED SILENT. THAT’S SHAMEFUL



IS KASHMIRI PUNDIT A COWARD OR TOO FORWARD TO PROTECT HIS OWN COMMUNITY AND MOTHER LAND. MAY BE PUNDITS WERE NEVER WARRIORS AND THUS ALWAYS USED THEIR BRAINS, RATHER THAN THEIR ARMS. OR WE WERE STRONG ADHERENTS OF MAHATMA GANDHI WHO BELIEVED, "IF SOMEONE SMASHES ONE SIDE OF YOUR FACE, OFFER HIM THE SECOND ONE". THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO US. THAT’S DESERVING!

FOR A PUNDIT THEIR PERSONAL BEING WAS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT, THAN THEIR MOTHERLAND. IT’S LIKE RUNNING FROM A FOREST FIRE & LEAVING BEHIND YOUR MOTHER, WHO IS STILL WAITING TO BE RESCUED, LIKE OUR VALLEY.

BARKING DOGS SELDOM BITE, BUT WE ARE EVEN WORSE THAN DOGS, WHO CAN NOT EVEN DARE TO BITE. HOWEVER WE CONTINUE REMAIN GOOD BARKERS!

MAY BE WE BELIEVED IN “JAAN HAIN TOH JAHAAN HAIN”. FOR US, OUR LIVES HAD UTMOST PRIORITY THAN OUR MOTHER LAND. THAT’S ABSOLUTELY FINE, THEN WE MUST CONTINUE TO BARK FROM OUR HOMES AND HOPE FOR A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN ONE DAY, PROBABLY SOME DAY.

DO WE DESERVE TO GET OUR KASHMIR BACK? EVEN THOUGH WE ABANDONED IT, BUT ITS MEMORIES DON’T SEEM TO FADE AWAY!
THE BITTER FACT STILL REMAINS THAT KASHMIRI PUNDITS WERE ALWAYS COWARDS AND PREFERRED TO TAKE A FLIGHT, THAN FIGHT. THAT’S A PUNDIT!