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Well one does wonder at times if we (Jammu) are even needed to be around as a society. There hardly appears to be any major change in our lacklustre and exanimate approach with respect to our future, and astonishingly we do not even tend to pick a cue or two from things that happen in our neighbourhood (valley).
Its almost stupefying to come to terms with this understanding as to how is it that the valley seems to have managed to hold on to this multifaceted approach towards their so called 'objective' which is only as clearly understood as is life itself (!!). With they (Kashmiris) championing the cause for the so called settlement of the 'Kashmir' dispute, then yet again they only taking oaths and swearing under the Indian constitution to serve the nation's interest (unless and until they have some extraterrestrial intelligence telling them that the actual interest of the nation also lay in what they aspired (!!), with the nation also having to waste so much of its resources thanks to the dispute).
Amusingly amongst them, there are some who are the fence sitters, changing their stance depending on the situation and their needs of the hour.
Its totally incapacitating to conjure as to what exactly do they want and more importantly how on earth have they managed to get away with things in spite of contradicting their own stand every now and then.
'Jammu' on the other hand seems to be right there, all 'Indian' at heart, willing to live and die for the nation and its cause, but then somehow one does get this feeling that more often than not, it happens to get a raw deal when it comes to the nation watching its interests. Is that the price it has to pay for its undaunted display of national sentiment and undying Indian spirit.
Why is it that somehow or the other, the region and its society seldom gets acknowledged the way ideally it should be. For having borne the brunt of more than six decades of a conflict that should never have been there from their perspective. But then thanks to the way the things have been handled by the central authorities it only seems a long walk before any solution to our (Jammu) woes can be found.
Why is it that the leadership of the region also has to face major embarrassments every now and then, with their interests and aspirations always overruled under one pretext or the other. Its only intriguing as to how a sensitive issue and region can be addressed by ways in which all that seems to reflect is nepotism and oligarchy along with the regional vendetta being pampered, with this hope that perhaps it shall trigger some kind of a quid pro quo in the form of some change in stand which never seems to have happened in the past 60 years.
Why are we here then, are we here to simply watch our interests being run over and compromised while we prefer dealing with a clear and present danger by closing our eyes and telling ourselves that there is none. But then its only going to be short-lived and so shall we a society, unless and until we do not take a stand. Email Facebook StumbleUpon
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