I don’t find Kashmir beautiful. How can a place that stifles life ever be beautiful? If it is time for anything real, it is time to break down the stereotypes of the valley and it’s physical beauty. True, the land maybe blessed with a pleasing landscape, but what good is that landscape on its own – uncared. What good is that land in which you tread with fear! If there was any beauty in that place, it must have been in peaceful survival, which by now is dead.
The oft quoted and now forgotten ‘kashmiriyat’, if it ever existed could have been a beautiful way of life if it indeed was a value system that respected diversity. Ironically, the land of multiple faiths that could have been a vibrant example of co-existence within this country, now, comes across not much more than a glorious prison.
Hopefully, a value system doesn’t need land to preserve itself, it needs intention and feeling - which on its own could be beautiful.
The oft quoted and now forgotten ‘kashmiriyat’, if it ever existed could have been a beautiful way of life if it indeed was a value system that respected diversity. Ironically, the land of multiple faiths that could have been a vibrant example of co-existence within this country, now, comes across not much more than a glorious prison.
Hopefully, a value system doesn’t need land to preserve itself, it needs intention and feeling - which on its own could be beautiful.
4 comments:
hi smriti....good observation....i agree......the way kashmir is right nw......all talk of kashmiriyat seems a MYTH......you write good....keep sharing......i have written smwhat similar stuff in my story....Three datura flowers: A Kashmiri love story...inwhich the girl from kashmir has no love for kashmir.....u can have a peep...on my blog...www.neerajsantoshi.blogspot.com...i find similar echoes in you.....godbless u
Hi Smriti, Kashmir is beautiful.. Nature in all its pristine glory and bounty.. Nature transcends humanity and in its lap you forget all the surrounding troubles, if you stop taking yourself and the human race all too seriously. We are mere specks in the grand scheme of the universe and we shall perish as a species in a few millenia.
@neeraj - i tried to change myself after i wrote this bitter post. and then today, i read your comment and your story.......wow! i am amazed and i am quite still as i type this. thank you for writing.
@abyss - nature is always beautiful, always perfect, i crave to see the deserts too. of course i might like snow a little more....
@Smriti, snow anytime for me as well..
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