न्सानियत - Humanity

न्सानियत - Humanity हमें तो हमारी गलियां सूनी लगती हैं तुम्हारे बिना, तुम्हारे बिना इमरान को क्या गोलू की याद नही आती | वो जो ताला लगा आये थे उसमे जरा तेल डाल देना, शायद ये चाभी कभी काम आ जाये | दुःख होता कि हमारे जाने के बाद भी अमन नहीं आया, क़ुरबानी तो हो गयी पर ईमान नही लौटाया | कभी कभी वो पुरानी कहानी याद कर लेते हैं, पर उस दहशत से ज़िन्दगी का हर पन्ना आज तक लाल है | सुना है क़ाफीयों के तो मकान भी नहीं रहे, हमने तो नया बनवाया था कैंप में आने से पहले | अगर करवा सको तो पुताई करा देना, मौका लगते ही मनीऑर्डर कर देंगे | वो झील क्या वैसी ही है, या किसी नेता ने पटवा कर वहां भी मॉल बनवा दिए हैं | याद नहीं है अब कितनी मासूम आवाजें , उस पानी में वहीँ रह गयीं थी | अगर कभी वापिस आयें तो दिल में जगह रखना, हमें पता है आप तो सच्चे हैं | वो फरमान उन मुल्ला और मुजाहिदों के थे, जो आज आपके नेता बने बैठे हैं | पूछोगी नही.. रोली क्या वैसे ही हँसती है, बड़े मन से तुमने उसका नाम रखवाया था | वो मशाल थी जो सफर में खुद ब खुद जल गयी, पर हँसी की हस्ती कहाँ मिटती है मर मर के... याद नहीं करना चाहते, जो गलियां छोड़ आयें हैं | पर क्या बताएं हम इन्हे यहाँ, रोते तो रहे हैं पर... एक गुलिस्तां वहीं छोड़ आयें हैं | अच्छा है यहाँ उतनी सर्दी नही पड़ती, यहाँ से कोई जाने को भी नही कहता | ना यहाँ बम चलते हैं ना आज़ादी की कोई आग है.. यहाँ रूहानियत भी उतनी नहीं और हैवानियत भी नही | पर यहाँ तुम नहीं हो, ना यहाँ वो यादें हैं | कुछ बना तो लिया, है पर ये घर नही है |




Our streets are lonely without you, Doesn’t Imran remembers Golu, Please oil the lock on our gate, Maybe this key would be used someday.

It is sad that even after our departure, peace hasn’t arrived, The sacrifice was done but honesty hasn’t return it. We often recall those horrifying old tales, But every page of life is still blood stained.

I heard houses of some of us have disappeared, We had built a new one just before ending up in the relief camps. l If possible do get it white washed, We will money transfer at the first chance.

Is that lake still the same, Or leaders have liaisoned to make a shopping mall over it. We can’t count the number of innocent voices, Drowned in those waters!
Keep your heart open for we might come back, We know you are honest, Decrees were issued by those mullahs and mujahids, Who today have become your leaders.
Wouldn’t you enquire about smile of Rolly, With great interest you had named her name. She was a light that got exhumed in the struggle for life, But her laughter doesn’t die even in her death.

I do not wish to recall, The lanes and home we left. But what can we say here except crying, That we have left a world there.

Well it’s good, it does not gets that cold here, And no one asks us to leave. There no bombs here nor any demand for freedom, But this place isn’t blessed, but again it isn’t even that ghastly. But you are not here, Nor there are any memories. We have built a new world here, But it is not our home.

सत्तर साल में सातसौ लफड़े – 700 struggles and 70 years

सत्तर साल हो गये देश को
आज भी भूखे लगा रहे हैं हूक
ना कुछ बना है ना कुछ बिगड़ा
टुकड़ो में हर व्यक्ति बिखरा

जो बचा पाये थे हम इतिहास से
अफसर - नेता पचा गये चुनाव से
गरीब आज भी भूखे पेट है सोता
आज़ादी के भ्रम में मेरे साथ है रोता

सत्तर साल में सातसौ लफड़े
गांव गल्ली में आब हम हैं सड़ते

बुरे बाबू से हैं लड़ते
और गोरों को अभ भी हैं गाली देते

नये नये आडम्बरों में उलझे
नये नये भाषड़ो में उड़ते
भ्र्ष्टाचार में लिप्त हैं सिपाही
बो लापरवाह जिनकी सरकार आयी

सत्तर साल से हम गा रहे हैं गान
बाँट रखा है जातियों में समाज
वही खड़ी है मजहबों की दीवार
आज भी लग रही है आज़ादी की पुकार

न्याय की कौन सुने है यार
सबका अपना अपना है कानून
हर कोई माँग रहा है आरक्षण
अपराधि को मिल रहा है सरंक्षण

सत्तर सालों में सैंकड़ो पीड़ित
हर डील में करोड़ों की डीलिंग
हर चौराहे पर नंगा नाच
भूल गए स्वतंत्रता संग्राम

कलैक्टर का आज भी रौला है
लाल हरे केसरिया सलाम का बोल बाला है
यहीं पूरा देश अटका है
डिवाइड एंड रूल से लटका है

सत्तर साल से पढ़ रहे हैं संविधान
और कैसे होगा उसका अपमान
आम जनता पे पड़ती है लात
आज भी बस है विधि का विधान

हर कोई कर रहा है लूट
चोरों को है पूरी छूट
नेताओं की मिटे ना भूख
बाबू बने हैं मिस्टर विद ब्लैक बूट...



Translation In English:

700 struggles and 70 years

New country and 70 year old,
Poor are still starving,
Nothing has improved nor worsened,
But all of us are scattered.

What we had saved from history,
It got looted by Officers and Leaders,
The poor still sleep empty stomach,
Cries with me in the confusion of independence…

Seven hundred struggles in Seventy years,
We are rot in our allays and villages,
We fight with own brethrens in government offices,
And still blame whites for the bureaucratic system.

Entangled in new pomp and show,
Buying the new promises of pseudo-leaders,
The guardians are themselves deep in corruption,
And those come in power are negligent.

For seventy years we are singing same song,
Still we are divided in same caste,
Standing behind the same old wall of religion,
These are still crying for freedom.

Who needs the law of land and justice?
Everyone has their own law,
Everyone is asking for reservation,
In the end only criminals are getting protected.

Innumerable injuries in seventy years,
Siphoning of crores in every deal,
Bludgeoning at every crossroad,
Have we forgotten our freedom struggle?

The bureaucrats rule the roast,
Communist and Religions Flags have their say,
This whole country is stuck here,
Hanging on Divide and Rule.

We are studying constitution for seventy years
And how else we can insulted it,
The common public gets kicked,
Now too we left with only heavenly justice.

Everyone is looting,
Thieves have full exemption,
Leaders are always hungry,
Bureaucrats are snobbish and corrupt.

The J & K quagmire

India has many ambiguous and unsolved mysteries; however which has been the cause of one of the biggest turmoil inside and outside the country since independence is intricacies of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. The article is attempt to understand different stake holdings of diverse voices involved in the issues, apart from the prevailing parties, forums and debates laying claim to the issue. Here is the description of the very root of the concern is what is 222,236 Sq km approx state and who are people numbering 19 million approx. The state is mistakenly presumed to as that of Kashmir, however it comprise of current six regions – Jammu, Kashmir, Leh-Ladakh, Pakistan occupied Kashmir - POK (Azad Kashmir) and under Pakistan controlled - Gilgit-Baltistan, under China controlled – Aksai Chin (China occupied Kashmir - COK).

Photo Source: Kashmiri Overseas Association Website

 

Currently, Jammu, Kashmir, Baltishtan and Azad Kashmir have roughly divided into 10 district each, two districts of Ladakh  and CoK Aksai Chin. Placed in north western corner of the state, is part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, which was administered in 1970 as “Northern Areas”, was renamed in 2009 as Gilgit-Baltistan. The Gilgit-Baltistan which is supposedly part of Azad Kashmir (as part of land of the same state under Pakistani control), however, Government Pakistan signed, Karachi Agreement, with its staged government of Azad Kashmir to self-secede to Pakistani Government, Gilgit-Baltistan. To add to complexity, the demography of the region in 1948, comprising of 85% Shias and Ismailis, was altered under General Zia ul-Haq regime by cheering resettlement of Sunnis from other region. The voices of Gilgit-Baltistan have been suppressed, unheard and stifled more so after Chinese rising interest in the region. Even there is has been constant protest by the populous for their rights and against the indiscriminate rule.

Just below Baltistan in south is another part of POK, Azad Kashmir, the place which has captured the imagination and frenzy of masses of Sub-continent, with no clear understanding of what it is. The marginal land stated to have self-governing model, laughably albeit under Pakistan Government. It is the narrow piece of land marked by Pakistani state as independently governing, southern part of Gilgit-Baltistan which is 400 km long and 16 to 64 km wide. The region is infamous for human rights violations, disappearance of persons, suppression of freedom of speech and active role of ISI and Pakistani armed forces like in Baltistan. It is known fact that even the official language is stated as Urdu not Kashmiri, and the voices of Kashmiriyat are swiftly taken care of. Part of the region measuring 5,180 Sq. Km is said to be illegally ceded to China by Pakistan under the March 1963 Sino-Pak Boundary agreement.

Just on the opposite side of Gilgit-Baltistan lays region of Aksai Chin on the eastern side of the state. This ancient high altitude desert trade route at elevation of roughly 4,300 meter is occupied by China. It is land of nomadic groups such as the Bakarwal, is under the iron wrist regime and with not much information available, except disputed claims by China, and its importance for the red state to exercise control over Tibet. 

Bordering Aksai Chin, on south western side region of Leh and Ladakh, peaceful, blessed with tourism and consisting of Leh and Kargil district. With almost equal population of Shia Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists, the region is peaceful and received tourist from across the globe. In the recent times there have been calls for Ladakh to be constituted as a union territory of India and some event suggest it to be an independent state given its largest land share in the state and feeling of unfair treatment by Kashmir dominate politics and cultural differences with other regions.

The southernmost of part of the state is Jammu Region with 10 districts and the majority 62.55% of Jammu's population practicing Hinduism, with Sikhs and Muslim, place enjoys peaceful strong cultural heritage, except for the border district with Pakistan Administer Kashmir having altercation with the army or terrorist incursions from other side. There been voices to create separate state of Jammu, given its peaceful existence and disconnect with discerning voices of Kashmir Valley.

Region	Area	Population	Divisions
Gilgit-Baltistan	72,971 Sq km	1.8 million	·       Baltistan: Skardu, Shigar, Kharmang, Ghanche ·       Gilgit: Gilgit, Ghizer, Diamer, Nagar ·       Diamer: Astore and Hunza
Azad Kashmir (PoK)	13,297 Sq km	4.6 million	·       Mirpur district: Mirpur, Kotli, Bhimber ·       Muzaffarabad:Muzaffarabad, Hattian, Neelam ·       Poonch: Poonch, Haveli, Bagh, Sudhanoti
Aksai Chin	37,555 Sq km	Nomadic	Aksai Chin part of Ladhak region
Ladakh	59,146 Sq km	0.27 million	Leh district and Kargil district.
Jammu	26,293 Sq km	5.38  Million	Jammu, Doda, Kishtwar, Rajouri, Reasi, Udhampur, Ramban, Kathua, Samba, Poonch
Kashmir Valley	15,948 km²x	6.89 million	Srinagar, Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Budgam, Ganderbal, Bandipora, Baramulla, Kupwara
Total	222,236 Sq km	18.94 million	--
Note: *It is estimated that around 100,000 Hindus in Azad Kashmir areas, according to the 1941 census, have left their homes during the conflict and different account suggest 150,000 to 300,000 Kashmiri Pandits have left their homes in Kashmir Valley. *Under the Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963, Pakistan has relinquished 5,180 sq. KMs in Gilgit-Baltistan to China.

Nestling between is all these region is the most in limelight beautiful Kashmir valley with its issues and protest getting global attention. This region again has 10 districts however the so much in news burning Kashmir issues and protest are confined to normally three districts of regions Anantnag, Pulwama and Shopian, however sometime extend to three more Kulgam, Kupwara, and Srinagar. Stories from this part of the state, are most popular in media enough to sway masses across the world to take notice of the plight of people suffering in valley. However, same people are neither get information about the situation across the border nor are sensitive to unheard voices of people of other parts of the state. The currently region has almost 96 % Muslim populations, has popular perception of unrest in the rest of the country. 

Photo Source: Jammu-Kashmir.Com Website

The bigger question, which popular discourse is has missed it understanding the debate beyond the powerful stakeholders and power hungry protesters. There are many discourse of the history, change of demographics over the time, however land in contention is the same, when forming opinion about the rightful fate of the people either by outsiders or by protesting or non protesting insiders, each party either directly involved or indirectly shaping the outcome must understand the unheard voices and other parties of the conflict. Otherwise, the complex puzzle of the state would become more confusing then reaching a plausible solution.