A change kashmir needs
I called my friend, Rashad, to ascertain his well-being and a
heartbroken sound came from there asking me “to do something” for his
safety .His voice was filled with the gloom and a feeling of my
haplessness entrenched in my body. The only thing i could do was that
I made a phone call to the police and earnestly requested them to
provide him the “deserving” help. My friend, like many people, had
made the unfair judgment about the nature of this catastrophe that
took many lives and rendered the lakes homeless. Beforehand, I had
warned him about the gravity of this calamity-though I too had a
feeling that it would pass without creating any havoc. His house owner
had kept his wobbling heart at bay by giving him required amount of
assurance for his “personal safety” and suitability of the place
against such incidents and accidents. So I could not persuade my
friend to leave the place. The end result was he had a narrow escape
and believes his survival a miracle.
Along it, my own house owner preferred to stay in house and “deal”
with the catastrophe. He was not imbecile in keeping his life at
stake, but he thought it judicious to stay in home to save the home
from miscreants. Knowing the fact that it is apt time for the
“socially imbecile” persons to take advantage and loot their
belongings, he kept his sanguine eyes on the raising level of water
hoping that it would retreat its direction. Such an idealistic
optimism made him the victim. My friend, later narrated the same story
about the inability of his house owner`s inability to leave the home.
Feeling the pain, much proportion of folk did everything to
help the people in the calamity-an act worth of standing applause.
Everyone had a reason to mourn. However, the anti-social elements
tried to make fortunes from the catastrophe. No sooner had the
catastrophe environed the city, the shopkeepers started raising price
at galloping rate, the fares touched sky high and in fact the
essential public services were kept in abeyance. Few boatman had
forced the underdog persons to pay huge amount for the survival, which
on occasions crossed one lakh rupees.
The point worth of stressing here is that the increase in number of
morally degraded and anti-social elements. They are the persons who
are responsible for the sufferings of the commons. The ambience they
are chronologically creating is forced a common man to take irrational
decisions.The need of hour is that we have to become intolerant to
such ant-social acts and take necessary steps to deter them.
Kashmir, a place that has been known for the generous nature of people
is turning from sublime to ridiculous. Materialism is trying
overshadow the altruistic nature of ours. This catastrophe made us
believe that the young folk of this society are not laggards in the
sphere of morality. They have proven that they can become the agents
of change- a change where immorality has no place, a change where
altruism dominate materialism and a change where Kshmiriyat is visible
in every act.
I called my friend, Rashad, to ascertain his well-being and a
heartbroken sound came from there asking me “to do something” for his
safety .His voice was filled with the gloom and a feeling of my
haplessness entrenched in my body. The only thing i could do was that
I made a phone call to the police and earnestly requested them to
provide him the “deserving” help. My friend, like many people, had
made the unfair judgment about the nature of this catastrophe that
took many lives and rendered the lakes homeless. Beforehand, I had
warned him about the gravity of this calamity-though I too had a
feeling that it would pass without creating any havoc. His house owner
had kept his wobbling heart at bay by giving him required amount of
assurance for his “personal safety” and suitability of the place
against such incidents and accidents. So I could not persuade my
friend to leave the place. The end result was he had a narrow escape
and believes his survival a miracle.
Along it, my own house owner preferred to stay in house and “deal”
with the catastrophe. He was not imbecile in keeping his life at
stake, but he thought it judicious to stay in home to save the home
from miscreants. Knowing the fact that it is apt time for the
“socially imbecile” persons to take advantage and loot their
belongings, he kept his sanguine eyes on the raising level of water
hoping that it would retreat its direction. Such an idealistic
optimism made him the victim. My friend, later narrated the same story
about the inability of his house owner`s inability to leave the home.
Feeling the pain, much proportion of folk did everything to
help the people in the calamity-an act worth of standing applause.
Everyone had a reason to mourn. However, the anti-social elements
tried to make fortunes from the catastrophe. No sooner had the
catastrophe environed the city, the shopkeepers started raising price
at galloping rate, the fares touched sky high and in fact the
essential public services were kept in abeyance. Few boatman had
forced the underdog persons to pay huge amount for the survival, which
on occasions crossed one lakh rupees.
The point worth of stressing here is that the increase in number of
morally degraded and anti-social elements. They are the persons who
are responsible for the sufferings of the commons. The ambience they
are chronologically creating is forced a common man to take irrational
decisions.The need of hour is that we have to become intolerant to
such ant-social acts and take necessary steps to deter them.
Kashmir, a place that has been known for the generous nature of people
is turning from sublime to ridiculous. Materialism is trying
overshadow the altruistic nature of ours. This catastrophe made us
believe that the young folk of this society are not laggards in the
sphere of morality. They have proven that they can become the agents
of change- a change where immorality has no place, a change where
altruism dominate materialism and a change where Kshmiriyat is visible
in every act.
