[Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits protest against Amnesty International

[inder salim]

On Jan 22, 2008 11:55 PM, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Arifi, Dear Ajay
>
> Rasul chu zanith deen te mazhab rokh te zulf chaen
> Kav zani kayah gov kufu te islam nigaro
>  Your face and your hair. That is all I know about different forms of
> Religion. How come, I am expected to know what is Islamic or what is
> un-islamic. ( Rasool Mir- poet Kashmir
>
> Your face and your hair: Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims,
> although in contrast, but they belong to one language, one poet, one
> unique civilization: a singularity.
> Kashmiri Muslims yearn for " a just Kashmir" in contrast to Kashmiri
> Pandits who want " a just India's Kashmir"  Right!
>
> I believe, this whole conflict is embedded in the desire… how to utter
> the inner core of the respective beings involved.
>
> Both the parties, by now, need to realize that it is a long drawn
> conflict, so they need to sustain, and see who is outwitting the
> other, if they are truly into the game of language. Both of them can
> engage their beings into that 'Kasheer thing' deeply, if there is a
> inner need to enter that Aag ka darya hai aur doob kay jana hai.
> Needless to mention that all actions finally translate into to signs
> and help us to generate other sings and symbols and future actions,
> and therefore, language with capital L. Language is not a dry subject;
> there is blood in it. Just see how we read history, and how easily we
> get so involved.  All I want is a serious involvement, and not a
> sentimental one.
>
> How to say the same thing that does not seem out of place. Words tell
> us the secret of this and don't tell us, even.
>
> " .. that the imagination depends on words. Words complete our
> fantasies, fill in their gaps, support their inconsistency, prolong
> them, enrich them with what cannot be seen or touched" Jean Paul
> Sartre.
>
> I personally appreciate any effort that rips the word, because,
> language is out there to be treated as  vegetable or a chicken under
> the knife. One can be  thousand times wrong grammatically but one can
> not be shallow or trivial. There is nothing sacred or profane in the
> word,  it in-it-self yearns for a bolder approach, a passionate
> penetrator.
>
> Here, Faiz, in fact never abandoned the romantic or the political
> even. One can see  that "Your face and your hair in his poem
> simultaneously.  Can we too do it. That is a challenge ?
> If I don't seem drifting too far, I believe, Meera had something to
> with Socrates. Not only because they had to drink poison in the end
> but they had a unique power to outwit the establishment. Meera mingled
> with the other and the popular and lifted it to the heights of
> metaphysical and so did secretes when he said while drinking hemlock "
> now I see my face merging with the mask "  There was intense political
> hidden in both, besides that personal " Knowthyself".
>
> with love
> inder salim
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 7:48 PM, Wali Arifi <waliarifi3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mr A of ARKP,
> >
> >
> > Never rest till you "rights" are recognised!
> >
> > Until the "killings" and "purging" of your community are not recognised as
> > "genocide, holocaust" etc etc etc whatever you may want it to be...
> >
> > There must be hope in the Amnesty.
> >
> >
> > Keep up the good work!
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Wali
> >
> > On Jan 18, 2008 12:35 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Kashmiri Pandits protest against Amnesty International
> > >
> > >  *New Delhi*
> > > *A worldwide initiative of the Kashmiri Pandit youth "Roots In Kashmir"
> > > protested against the international human rights group Amnesty
> > > International
> > > on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human
> > > Rights
> > > on Sunday.*
> > >
> > > *The group accused Amnesty of being biased in their human rights reports
> > > in
> > > the last two decades on the issue of Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits.*
> > >
> > > *"It has just failed to come to our rescue; Amnesty has failed to rise to
> > > the occasion wherein it could have played a greater role in raising the
> > > issues connected with the Kashmiri Pandit exodus," said a group member.*
> > > **
> > > *Read detailed story, pictures and more at -
> > > http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/*
> > > **
> > > *Thanks*
> > > *Aditya Raj Kaul*
> > > *New Delhi*
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