I ll bore you more with this J&K thing
The king was naked. But the courtiers ostentatiously applauded his majestic outfit. They fooled themselves to flatter the king till an innocent child cried hoarse and exploded the myth.
Jammu stands on a blasting gelatine. A stray spark will put it on fire. We fool ourselves by ignoring this fact. Time has come to unmask what Lord Byron would have described as the "truth in masquerade." Ever since the advent of the new millennium, it has become almost a monotonous routine to hear of a bomb blast taking place every third day in or around Jammu. There is hardly a venue or location which is spared. From busy market places to rail racks.... no place is free from being vulnerable. It is upto the militants and their masters across the border to decide which place and which time they wish to choose for thier next strike. We saw Kashmir go up in flames and did nothing to save it. We are now consciously missing the opportunity to save Jammu going the Kashmir way.
There is tremendous activity in Jammu's political and social circles. And all activity apparently aims at rescuing Jammu. The truth, however, is that this ill-fated stir is generated by activists who are past masters in the art of fishing in troubled waters. They could not rescue Kashmir. They cannot rescue Jammu. They lack the necessary insight, the will and the sincerity to do so. They lack the vision to look beyond making their presence felt at the State sponsored meetings
of so called prominent citizens routinely held after each incident of militancy. A sinking Jammu can no longer afford the luxury of patronising these high profile operators. The sooner Jammu gets rid of them, the more bearable shall be the agony of its moribund plight.
Aristotle taught us centuries ago that even when laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unaltered. It is time to frame a new set of rules for the impending tornado. The peril and the perjury, the uncertainty and the insecurity witnessed in Jammu today is loaded with the venegeance of the aggrieved and the wronged. And they who procliam that all is fine in Jammu are precisely the handful of men and women who have become habitual beneficiaries of perpetual falsehood.
We saw the consequences of abusing the dignity of the common man in Kashmir. We shall soon see the consequences of abusing the pride of the common man in Jammu. To use poet Faiz's famous words "---
Woh Waqt Kareeb Aa Pahuncha Jab Takht Giraaye Jayenge, Jab Taj Uchhaale Jayenge".
Unfortunately, however, the ensuing destruction, unless it is checked, will spare none. It will leave a trail of misery for one and all including the most innocent of the innocent.
Jammu stands on a blasting gelatine. A stray spark will put it on fire. We fool ourselves by ignoring this fact. Time has come to unmask what Lord Byron would have described as the "truth in masquerade." Ever since the advent of the new millennium, it has become almost a monotonous routine to hear of a bomb blast taking place every third day in or around Jammu. There is hardly a venue or location which is spared. From busy market places to rail racks.... no place is free from being vulnerable. It is upto the militants and their masters across the border to decide which place and which time they wish to choose for thier next strike. We saw Kashmir go up in flames and did nothing to save it. We are now consciously missing the opportunity to save Jammu going the Kashmir way.
There is tremendous activity in Jammu's political and social circles. And all activity apparently aims at rescuing Jammu. The truth, however, is that this ill-fated stir is generated by activists who are past masters in the art of fishing in troubled waters. They could not rescue Kashmir. They cannot rescue Jammu. They lack the necessary insight, the will and the sincerity to do so. They lack the vision to look beyond making their presence felt at the State sponsored meetings
of so called prominent citizens routinely held after each incident of militancy. A sinking Jammu can no longer afford the luxury of patronising these high profile operators. The sooner Jammu gets rid of them, the more bearable shall be the agony of its moribund plight.
Aristotle taught us centuries ago that even when laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unaltered. It is time to frame a new set of rules for the impending tornado. The peril and the perjury, the uncertainty and the insecurity witnessed in Jammu today is loaded with the venegeance of the aggrieved and the wronged. And they who procliam that all is fine in Jammu are precisely the handful of men and women who have become habitual beneficiaries of perpetual falsehood.
We saw the consequences of abusing the dignity of the common man in Kashmir. We shall soon see the consequences of abusing the pride of the common man in Jammu. To use poet Faiz's famous words "---
Woh Waqt Kareeb Aa Pahuncha Jab Takht Giraaye Jayenge, Jab Taj Uchhaale Jayenge".
Unfortunately, however, the ensuing destruction, unless it is checked, will spare none. It will leave a trail of misery for one and all including the most innocent of the innocent.
posted by this is me at 9:13 AM
0 comments
