To be very frank the gimmick is played by our own people by deceiving themselves, and still expect a successful resistance. Nothing less nothing more, the resistance nub is missing, forgotten or exploited. Attrition is slowly empowering the boiling situation to cool. The paramount is declining, taking a paradigm shift, it has given rise to prudent impasse.
Iteration on political issues has made it the war of words hatred than to play safe political issue making the trip of interlocutors heading by Rajnath Singh on 3rd September to Kashmir. It gives pain of sweat in the whole body when it is heard that this time also situation is intercepted by same winds that blew in 2008 and 2010.
The statement issued by Geelani that government is paying huge amounts to cars and auto-rickshaw drivers to ply on the residency road, with no passengers in it, to display normalcy in the city. I cannot stand with this point, nothing is precious than life, and why they would take risk, for the sake of money. The fact on the screen depicts, that we have lost everything on the grounds, vividly we are heading towards darkness of the present era. No doubt, it must be accepted that separatists are loosing ground in the uppertown areas. Flamboyant approach, reincarnates our selfish motto behind our visible face.
Onus is missing in Srinagar city of uppertown, it pains me as a human being, when I hear or see, how downtown suffers, and uppertown enjoys the relaxation. These are two parallel lines that are visible, openly, to judge the things.
Today again many have to take off route, that leads from, Madine Sahib, Gulshan Bagh, Wattal colony then to Badamwari, Botaraj, Rainawari, Khanyar, Nowpora, then Khayam, then Munawarabad, then direct to Lalchowk, the route witnessed no problem, and vehicles were plying normally to reach the offices situated in Lalchowk. At some places stones were kept on roads to block the roads, with nobody there, the drivers came down, and removed the obstructions to make way to Lalchowk, again today Lalchowk was normal, people walking here are there, on their private vehicles for work.
After two days of uneasy calm, another 22 years old youth was shot during protests taking toll to 87, 13 short of century. Maiming with death continues, due to indulgence shown by security forces must be condemned by all and sundry.
The aggression seems inexorable, by incursions showed by protestors by throwing stones on the security forces, the repeated statements of police officers are advertant. Situation crippling down to ground, in South Kashmir, cannot be said is under control, the government is impairing her hold on the Kashmir and is impenitent of her doings.
Now as we see, the worst hit sector is of education, that can never be compensated, the other sections of the society that too are facing loss, can be tolerated, but the loss of time in education studies is unbearable. The internal road ramifications that lead to the city of every locality were blocked by children and adults were not to be seen at the places.
Even after lot of interation, the impasse continues, the children gambit on the roads by throwing stones on the vehicles. The children manace, is on boil, as parents are not bothered to stop them from doing this. Today as I reached a place, where dozens of children were holding stones in their hands, they stopped me and started to interrogate me, who are you, where you have to go, don’t you know there is hartal, where do you work, go back, what is your name etc, after listening this I was laughing from inside,I managed to suppress it, and though where we are heading, one boy who seemed to be their leader, I called him and said allow me to go, then one child asked me OK, give us 10 rupees for toffees, I without any delay gave him 10 rupees note, they willingly removed the stones and allowed me and my vehicle to pass unharmed. The elders who were sitting there, on the edges of the shops didn’t say anything to them.
It misconceives me, is this for what we are fighting. One must meticulously think, no doubt if they are desirable for their goal, it is good, nobody is against it, but if falls in the hands of inexperienced persons and immature ones, it becomes farcical with farrago on behalf of them.
Methinks, fanatism is playing high role in this sensitive movement, such incidents must be relinquished, the espousal separatists, must intervene, personally and even locality heads must take painstaking measures to eschew children from doing it. Such acts affronts all, and bring pain and agony to all, on seeing small children occupying the places, at risk, that may incur injuries to them.
As I came across this, I penned it down, others might be secretive about it, such supervising circumstances and irretrievable breakdown can be pivotal. Children are given, upper hand in allowing to meddlesome in resistance, that can involve them in draconian laws such as PSA.
Such actions can annihilate this movement and is animus for the cause.
The views presented in this article are the Author’s own, and does not in anyway depict the views of the Kashmir Digest. This is an Op Ed
Syed Abadi Hamdani
Freelance Writer
Writes on Social, Economical and Environmental Issues.