Today, Kashmir is more of a burning cauldron than a "paradise on earth". It has become a key to the door of political power. Each leader ever elected, launches his campaign with the words,” Ye awam kya chahti hai?”But its merely restricted till the campaign mikes. Those promises urge the Kashmiris to conceive a life they all have promptly agreed to enjoy solely in their imaginations and not even dare to dream about in nights. Because when you sleep to the sound of gunshots and cry, you sleep in fear, you sleep to the fear that this might be your last. It is said Kashmir is a land where Gods reside, then why have we made it a hell for those Kashmiris who nothing but only wish to wake to the sound of azan and not to the sounds of cries. From the partition of 1947 to the Pulwama attacks in 2019, Kashmir has bloodied its scared rivers; It is still bleeding with a thousand cuts.
Each sunrise triggers a war for the Kashmiris where they are declared as terrorists in their own motherland. As Indians, we love our nation not just because we are born here and obliged to respect it but because the nation offers us a promise of safety, it offers infinite scope for development, it causes us to feel like home. But you have known Kashmir for years, what has the nation provided to the Kashmiris? We have given them hatred because they are a Minority. We have given them a tag of anti-nationalists because they have suffocated for 30 years playing the toy. Where the world is developing into a digital era we have denied them access to the internet. Where students in other parts of India are receiving their PhDs, the Minnar students fear what they will receive first, their degree or a bullet in their head to perform their right to education.
What else do you have to offer Kashmir? Do you recall the game of monkey catch? Where you have two parties dogging a ball each side and a monkey trying to snatch it, and being the monkey was quite irritating.Because no matter how you tried you could never fetch the ball and you would leave the game in frustration. India and Pakistan are the two parties and Kashmir will remain the one struggling to fetch its right to breathe fresh air, not burns and ashes. Now it's tired of fetching the ball of freedom . Kashmiris now demand freedom. The game has unfortunately taken a turn of violent actions that none wish to have. The world quotes “Words are stronger than swords” Kashmir has failed to prove it true. The guns have replaced pens, Words replaced by bullets, Now flows the blood of Indians where millions have flown inks .
Paradise is a promise no god bothers to keep. There's only now, tomorrow nothing will be the same, whether we like it or not." ~Heidi Heilig This is today's Kashmir. And as Indians, we have failed to keep our crown high.
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