Who is eating Kashmir?

If you think there will be a talk about politics here you are wrong, you better flip the first page of any local daily or turn to any Indian news channel where Arunabh and fellows are talking politics all day. Who is eating Kashmir? This question needs not a political answer. If you go to a doctor he will tell you that there are two main classifications of diseases “External and Internal.” The ones that are damaging the external body and others inflict pain in the interior of it. Now review the literature of any religion in the world you will again come across two diseases. First one is external known as diseases of worldly body and the other one interior known as diseases of soul. Every doctor, priest or a preacher of his religion will agree that later diseases i.e. internal diseases (whether interior to body or diseases of soul) are dangerous than external ones. Reason is that these diseases are hard to diagnose and difficult to treat and pose more danger than external diseases. Same is the case with the land of Kashmir, we all have easily found and diagnosed the external diseases and pathogens and try to treat them in our own ways but we are yet to diagnose those pathogens that are eating Kashmir from inside. Eating the heart and soul of this land and are yet untraceable and untreatable.

These pathogens can be seen in everywhere in the world but the land of Kashmir has proven to be more friendly host. These pathogens are roaming free in the air of this land contaminating everything that comes their way. These pathogens look no different than me and you; they belong to the same species and class of animal kingdom “Homo-Sapiens” as we do. They can be found at the gates of big offices, at roadsides, on chairs inside the big offices, at construction sites, wearing white or blue, with ties and without ties, in jeans or in kurta paijamas, in Maruti or Ambassador cars, giving long but meaningless speeches, tweeting dopey messages, making and breaking promises, in short where ever you go, you can trace these eating bugs. Now f you are thinking how you can identify these bugs let me say in Kashmir it is easy, these bugs have grown fat and are easily seen there. Go to any office you will see a bug taking a packet below his table. I was in a bus where one elderly person almost frustrated with his pension release orders was shouting “He asked me to give him the money quickly, as he was getting late for prayers” and guess it was the Holy month of Ramadan. You can also find them at construction sites building bridges without iron rods, drains without cement, painting with expired paint and macadamising roads without tar, building bunds of sand and clay and constructing buildings that don’t exist. But one cannot blame them, and how I can after all what will happen to their families if these things they build don’t need to be mended or repaired year after year. Ah!! the most common type of these bugs is present at gates; they won’t let you pass the gate till you pass a buck to their pocket. Yet there is another class of these pathogens, called as high class bugs. They eat fresh but big yet due to their manners they are clean and most respected. They hold high positions and make way for their children to reach there even if they can’t even a pass 10^th standard exam themself. Talking of exam there is another type of bug helping people to get educated. You must be thinking if one is helping someone to get educated how come he be a bug then? My dear in Kashmir qualification of literacy determines how educated you are. These bugs help to qualify these tests and terms of education system. These are found in most of the educational institutes across the valley. If you now think that this bug is a dangerous one, no my dear there is another one right in classroom. He is talking education but is not educated himself; he talks economics but doesn’t even know “e” of it. He might be taking mathematics classes what if he is an arts graduate. He may be teaching history even if he failed ten times in the same subject. This is Kashmir and these bugs are all-rounders they can teach something of everything. The list doesn`t conclude here there is another species driving vehicles of all types. If driving a govt. one then a local petrol and diesel seller is a friend and if it is the own one of the bug, thanks to the banks, then beware while crossing the roads. They think of roads like a race-course and please never mind their language. Hey there is a white bug also, yes wearing white dress. Now what does this one do? He either gives you long list of drugs from sub-standard companies or will make you to go for ECG at another bugs lab if you consult him for a headache. Now if you go looking for them in hospitals you won`t find one!! Dear how can you it is clinic time. Now there is a bug everybody knows very well, this one wears uniform. This one is found everywhere in the land. Because these are known ones, people try to avoid them because their bite takes time to heal, if you don’t believe go ask the driving bugs. The list is so long that one will run out of classifications but these bugs won’t. In short where ever you look you got to see not one but many.

These bugs and pathogens have been eating Kashmir silently and internally, hard to diagnose difficult to treat. These pathogens are real cause, hampering the economic growth and social well-being of the land, degrading the morality of Kashmiri people. How can one expect growth of a land if there are thousands of eaters? These pathogens not only eat but make sure that those who follow them are also cannibals. They make sure an army is ready to take them over. I believe that till these pathogens are not cured and treated there will be no fruit obtained in curing the wounds and scars that this land has got externally.

Now the question remains how to treat these pathogens. My dear friend the answer lies within every pathogen himself. It is only he who can treat himself, no matter how many times you spray anti-pathogenic drugs over him. No matter if you talk religion to him, no matter if you talk of Kashmiriyat to him. My dear friend this pathogen is really a hard one, only when he chooses to be RBC of this nation he will seize to be a pathogen. But the question remains.. Will he? and if yes then when will he?…..

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