A Random Thought----- I

While I was alone on my routine evening walk today my thoughts again shifted towards our deplorable condition living out of the bounds of our roots for such a long time aspiring fervently to gain our lost paradise. The multi-pronged problem of our displacement from the valley has acquired various ramifications during these years. On the one hand the situation in Kashmir does not guarantee any safety for this minuscule minority at the present moment and on the other the security agencies are unable to contain terrorism despite ultimate efforts in the whole of India not to speak of the anti India tirade in the valley of Kashmir. We are unable to plead our arguments forcefully in the national and international fora about our forced displacement in early 1990 upon complete breakdown of the administrative machinery in the valley such that some solid steps would be taken to improve our lot or some more relief measures extended in our favour till the final resolution of the problem. An important feature that makes this community almost insignificant is that our capacity to vote has been stalled because we have no reserved candidates to vote for neither in the state assembly nor in the Parliament. The political parties whatsoever in power have nothing to gain out of resolving any of our problems as such. Our names do exist in the electoral rolls of our respective constituencies in the valley but there is no point in using our right to vote for the valley candidates who have neither access to our present places of settlement nor are they capable to solve any of our problems.
The state and the central government both have not so far given any suitable attention to our plight on its merits firstly for our individual democratic rights as the citizens of India and secondly for the larger interests of the country. The authorities have never tried to judge the situation on ground that all the traces of India in Kashmir are gradually dwindling and the local administration though sworn by the constitution of India does not discourage the trend for fear of losing public support in their favour. Moreover all traces of Hindu culture that were present in abundance in the valley are dwindling day after day. All important Hindu installations in the form of temples and names of places etc are being encroached upon gradually such that almost all Hindu flavour that existed in the valley before 1990 is missing. The fundamentals of the policy for continuing India in Kashmir is essentially to strengthen sincerely all available Indian elements there on priority but the authorities have miserably failed in this important function. The Kashmir Pandit (KP) was the strongest pro India force in Kashmir that belonged to its soil and his absence from the scene has given a severe blow to the Indian influence in Kashmir. Our administrative machinery is probably unaware of this important fact or is deliberately shying away from this important responsibility towards the nation......(not concluded)