To all those people cheering loud for the new integrated India...
To the ones who are celebrating the 73rd so called Independence day of the country...
I just want to ask you something...
Have you ever had a Kashmiri roommate? Have you ever seen them crying for their Homeland?
Have you ever felt within yourself the sense of helplessness of not being able to talk to your own parents for weeks?
Do you have any idea how it actually feels to get treated as second citizens in one's own "Integrated Country"!
If not, then you...you are the person I want to sat down for a discussion!
It's been more than 70 years since Kashmir has been added to the territory of Independent India! Or else I must say It has been 7 decades since we are using their geographical land for defense and tourism.
Then again...even after 73 years of staying United if the Kashmiri people aren't able to recognize themselves as one among as then it is shame on us! It is shame on our government! Our government has failed to give them that sense of belonging. Keeping aside those written privileges that they have been enjoying since then, every Indian will admit that the way Kashmiris are treated in India is no less than a foreigner.
Before getting offended, just get your facts clear...a Kashmiri resident is not even eligible to buy a sim card using his/ her identity from any other states in India excluding Jammu and Kashmir. Wow... Incredible India! Right? Is this the way a country treats it's citizen's? And that too one which claims to be a democratic country?
Keeping the prominent Political leaders and bureaucrats in house arrest, cutting all the communication facilities, establishing curfew for time undetermined and assigning an average of 7 soldiers per common man is the so called liberal way of integrating a nation? The decision of their lifetime has been taken and is implemented on them forcefully.
What does integration in it's true sense means?
Call me an emotional fool but I must say Kashmir is not about it's land...it is about the people. Human Resource is the greatest and most productive form of resource any developing country can ever have. Unless and until the people in J&K don't agree with the very idea of 'Integrated India' , this country can never be considered United.
A bill that is opposed by half of the population of a country has been unanimously passed by the ruling party in the parliament, that itself shows the basic concept of democracy has failed in this country. I am not here to talk about the Pros and cones of this decision, but I must say that the way it is been implemented is the worst one any democratic country can follow.
#Cheerachi
Pic Credits: Dheera Sasidharan (@itscheerachi)
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