“If there is a heaven on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here”, Mughal Emperor Jehangir said it all when he visited Kashmir valley in the 17th century. Sir Walter Lawrence, the author of ‘The Valley of Kashmir,’ has written lucidly about the beauty of Kashmir. He penned “The valley is an emerald set in pearls; a land of lakes, clear streams, green turf, magnificent trees and mighty mountains where the air is cool, and the water sweet, where men are strong, and women vie with the soil in fruitfulness”. The word ‘paradise’ and ‘trouble’ are two contrary conditions, means where there is trouble there is no paradise and where there is a paradise, there is no trouble and vice versa. But in the blood tornned valley, trouble lies and runs through every street, every road, every home and every nook and corner. In the garden of this gorgeous paradise, Tulips are troubled every day with or without any reason. Since the inception of insurgency in early 1990’s, the paradise is being slowly but surely turned into a Hell under a well designed conspiracy. People have been accusing Govt, it’s forces and agencies of mass killings and in turn it is accusing separatists and militants of evoking people against it. Whatever the facts may be, this low intensity war has claimed more than one lakh human lives of both Indian forces and common Kashmiri masses. The world has advanced much in all spheres of life. Science and technologies have developed by leaps and bounds. Communication and Transportation system too have touched improvements but here in our valley science is limited to Drones, armoured vehicles, latest weaponry and bullet proof vests. Communication is caged by frequently muffling internet services, transportation means defying civilians to move on their own roads and halt vehicular movement for hours.
Youth are the builders of any nation. It is said that if you want to check the future of a Nation, examine it’s youth and if you want to destroy a Nation without war, make adultery and nudity common in young generation. Here youth are being deliberately pushed and inclined into the menace of drugs, they are being made addicted of drugs. They are being made to do immoral and illegal activities. From past couple of weeks, police and govt are claiming of arresting Drug peddlers that indeed is an appreciative step but the question ‘From where these drugs come?’ remains unanswered. Govt is accusing the other side of the border of supplying drugs into Valley but the fact is criticized by many. People wonder if Militants can’t cross the border, how come these drug suppliers can? .The process is thus clearly supported by some internal forces which ought to be checked and probed thoroughly. Last but not least is the Role of BJP, an Extremist Hindu political party which has won two consecutive General elections of 2014 and 2019 respectively. Since BJP came into power in 2014, threats to special status have increased enormously. The party has continuously put the valley in serious distress by its vague and hardcore policy over Kashmir valley. It has threatened to scrap Article 35A and 370 which is considered as basic identity of the people of J&K. Thus in a state where there should have been happiness is full of sobs and tears, state where blood feared to come is fearing people and flowing like rivers. Thus ‘PARDISE known for it’s calmness and peace is in deep TROUBLE’.
(The author is a freelancer. Views are his own [email protected])
