Myself and my Kashmiri wife, both of us love to read about politics but our views are often different and sometimes opposite. Initially we used to have never ending arguments over politics but we started avoiding such discussions for
larger peace of our family. However, this weekend me and my wife were discussing something and it was becoming an inconclusively long discussion like politics. The subject wasn't important enough to swallow our precious time over the weekend. Me realising that discussions is going nowhere I restlessly said, 'this why the Kashmir issues is not finding any solution' and in a quick reflex she replied, 'Yes, but we know that we are fighting for our azaadi and with fully honesty'.
I was so amused with the response that my insatiable mind started to dissect the ir/relevance of the two sentences in relation to public psyche in the valley against others like myself. I said so because I was trying to compare our failure to conclude in our discussions with dispute in Kashmir. Where there are so many leaders with so diverse opinions that every leader is now a party. Later they decided to form a party of parties called Hurriyat Conference which later got split into two. Today, if you ask a Kashmiri who is your leader, he will most probably name none. In a small region like Kashmir when you have so many voices, all claiming to be true representative. It is a chaos which leads only to cacophony and little concludes to solution. Which I thought was relevant comparison.
I thought how can she talk about the honesty of Kashmiri struggle, when the failure to find solution or voice is questioned. It appeared to me as an irrelevant response and I decided to quit the discussion, as we avoid debating politics. Although we discontinued the discussion but I continued to think about relevance of her response as the spontaneity with which it was said certainly had some depth. I feel the failure of leader ship to conclude any solution with Indian and Pakistani accession has led to disbelieve in the leadership.
During this period of 60 years, while both the political and militant struggles were failing; the atrocities were continuing. This led to an environment of disbelieve and frustration. In this supercharged and chaotic environment, the vengeance towards the aggressors kept on accumulating. Lack of convergence towards a solution has led to lost of hope for the Solution itself. Now when the aspirations of youth are not being channelised, all they want is to keep their spirit of struggle alive. I believe this would be the reason behind sprouting stone pelters every summers. In this long history of struggle all is lost except the spirit of freedom which is becoming younger every year.
Now the response of my wife appears to be a little relevant as all she care is continued chant for azaadi.
I was so amused with the response that my insatiable mind started to dissect the ir/relevance of the two sentences in relation to public psyche in the valley against others like myself. I said so because I was trying to compare our failure to conclude in our discussions with dispute in Kashmir. Where there are so many leaders with so diverse opinions that every leader is now a party. Later they decided to form a party of parties called Hurriyat Conference which later got split into two. Today, if you ask a Kashmiri who is your leader, he will most probably name none. In a small region like Kashmir when you have so many voices, all claiming to be true representative. It is a chaos which leads only to cacophony and little concludes to solution. Which I thought was relevant comparison.
I thought how can she talk about the honesty of Kashmiri struggle, when the failure to find solution or voice is questioned. It appeared to me as an irrelevant response and I decided to quit the discussion, as we avoid debating politics. Although we discontinued the discussion but I continued to think about relevance of her response as the spontaneity with which it was said certainly had some depth. I feel the failure of leader ship to conclude any solution with Indian and Pakistani accession has led to disbelieve in the leadership.
During this period of 60 years, while both the political and militant struggles were failing; the atrocities were continuing. This led to an environment of disbelieve and frustration. In this supercharged and chaotic environment, the vengeance towards the aggressors kept on accumulating. Lack of convergence towards a solution has led to lost of hope for the Solution itself. Now when the aspirations of youth are not being channelised, all they want is to keep their spirit of struggle alive. I believe this would be the reason behind sprouting stone pelters every summers. In this long history of struggle all is lost except the spirit of freedom which is becoming younger every year.
Now the response of my wife appears to be a little relevant as all she care is continued chant for azaadi.
