Living in Fool’s Paradise: Hollow Dreams and illusionary Azaadi

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism”. This very powerful quote was stated by the youngest recipient of Noble Peace Prize: Malala Yousufzai. She’s always up there advocating for education of Girls and Peace, but as the word comes to Kashmir, that’s where the buck stops, she often tends to recall that she’s a Pakistani first and while being so, it her moral duty and responsibility to speak up against Indian Government’s atrocities that they impose upon Poor Kashmiri people, often neglecting the fact that it was her country and her own people who attacked and forced her to run and seek asylum elsewhere, ignoring that not all victims of terrorism are as lucky as she is. She’s never been to Kashmir, she never even dared to set foot in her own country for next six years and rather choose to become a self-proclaimed guardian angel for all those Kashmiri People who have been exploited by the Indian Authorities for decades as per her and rest of the Pakistan, often neglecting the fact that their very own country leads the supply chain of terror industry.

If we look back in the history from Osama Bin Laden to the most recent anarchist Riyaaz Naikoo, the education didn’t seem to affect their deeds towards humanity. In fact, it further amplified their thought process to sync with their brainwashed atrocious minds.

The Separatists often cry for conspiracies by the Indian Establishment against the fellow Kashmiris, well, the facts and figure speak a different story altogether. While the separatist leaders like Geelani, Mirwaiz, Yasin Malik, Masrat Alam, etc. have collaborated well with the Mufti and Abdulla family behind the closed doors, they made sure that the Anti-India Narrative they manufactured should act as a defining too in radicalizing the youth of the valley.

With little truth, their narrative is largely funded by Pakistan and China have often resulted in the birth of their “so called self-proclaimed freedom fighters” like Riyaaz Naikoo, Burhan Wani, Sabzar Butt and many more. The funny thing about the whole scenario is they may have brainwashed and radicalised many youth to pick up gun against their own country and they are often eliminated by security forces, as its very much known that the shelf life of these militant and terrorists is less than a year. But not even once, there had been reports that any family member of these separatist leaders have joined militancy, in fact most of them don’t even reside in India. They live in many posh localities across US, Saudi, UAE, Europe and many other countries, drive the most premium automobiles, study in the best of the colleges and have multiple business through which they earn millions.

The Kashmiri youths have been radicalised to such extent that they don’t even have a capacity to question their very own leaders, shouldn’t a democratic society have at least that provision for its own people? 

The Left Wing Media houses and some sections of the western media should be credited for peddling fake news and narratives over the years, after all they succeeded in creating a very hostile environment for their own people. After all they need to make sure that they are not forgotten, a very important fact that they have forgotten that we live in 21^st century now, there is very little or no place for idiocy, but they keep pushing their efforts, after all they have to stay relevant.

The “Qaid-e-Azam” Geelani was recently forced to abandon the Hurriyat Conference, he may have understood that his long last dream of “Azaadi” is nothing more than a mirage, the rest of India knows that since the last 73 years. He ran his shop on selling the dreams to poor Kashmiri chaps, since the last two decades, he realised it eventually. Its high time that any Indian, be it Kashmiri or Gujarati, Tamil or Bengali, anyone who has slightest of doubts in their minds should seek a change in their thought process.

Run-in between militants and security forces appears to be a routine process these days. When Pakistan Backed insurgency commenced in 1989, some of the local militant groups had close to 15,000 fighters. Now the most active ones in valley don’t cross double digits. This has largely been achieved due to the efforts of the Indian Govt. and the Security forces. Any militant who chooses to return back to the civilian setup putting his arms down is Mearly welcomed back, is even free to join the army or any other security forces and serve the country if he wishes to do so and there have been many instances in the past who have done that.

The problem in having an extremist mind-set is one becomes delusional, often neglects the reality. The reality is that everything in Kashmir is a game of money, the reality is stone pelting is the only job offered to the Kashmiri youths by their leaders, the reality is the population of Kashmir is something around 5 million and the stone pelters are barely 8000-10000, not even the 1% of population. Once the cash flow stops, there would be no money to pay to anyone, hate is not inherited by the youth, it’s only salaried to step up the game, once the channel is blocked, and the game would be done and dusted once and for all. The so called leaders would be out of job, slowly and steadily we’re on course of that scenario.

Many liberals compared Burhan Wani to Shaheed Bhagat Singh and made a lame attempt to establish a thick line of similarities between them stating he was also a freedom fighter, the most recent case has been of Riyaaz Naikoo when many sections of the Indian Media tried to highlight the background story of what forced a Maths teacher to join militancy and its as difficult as rocket science to understand how could a person pick up guns against his own country kill innocent civilians from his community and region, be involved in smuggling of drugs and ammunitions, be part of possible sex trafficking set-up be called a freedom fighter? And the media has been more interested in portraying his life as maths teacher, all that just for some points of TRP. That’s nothing more than an absurd stupidity, the elites of the influential media houses must understand what they portray to the world and what could be the repercussions.

Kashmiri people have needed inspiration for such a long time, they don’t need to look across the horizon to pursue their heroes, and rather a little peep in their own backyard could give them the exact role model that they’re looking for. They should look to replicate Lieutenant Umar Fayaz, Rifleman Aurangzeb, Imtiyaz Hussain, etc. there are tons of names scattered in the valley, all one needs is a little introspection in the past and a resilient decisiveness on what kind of future they seek.

All these so called freedom fighters are just pawns of the larger game. As far as Burhan Wani is concerned, he was not a freedom fighter, he was a militant, a Kashmiri, an Indian who picked up arms against his own country and paid the price. One simply cannot look to wage war against the Indian Forces and expect to survive, he bought one of the hollow dreams that were up for sale and died a disgraceful death. Had he known it earlier that the people for whom he was fighting would disown him in no time, maybe he would have a given some thought to it while being alive.

One of the most important question of Independent India that is asked time and again is “What about Kashmir?”

In short and brief: The Kashmir belongs to India and so does the Kashmiri, has been for thousands of years and will remain to be so till the end of time, come what may.