[Reader-list] Amaranth Yatra

[Pawan Durani]

Hello Murtaza ,

Three points from me :-

1. A single langar for media glare can not hide the fact of intolerance
towards anything to do with hindus in Kashmir . Had people been so tolerant
hundred of temples wouldnt have been destroyed or occupied by fanatics. Also
the relegios cleansing of Hindus nin Kashmir would have never happened.

2. Your greeting of "BabuJi Sitaram" is something funny . People greet
pligrims with Bam Bam Bole .....maybe you missed on that.

3. And whats wrong with facilities , if Hajis can travel by Air instead of
land or sea travel , why the facilities of Amarnath pligrims raised
eyebrows.

This a age of convenience ,......let everyone have it.

Pawan


On 7/2/08, Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Aarthi,
> Kashmiri Muslims offering food and shelter to the yatris is old practice. I
> will give you one example in recent times. When in 1996 due to unseasonal
> blizzards and uncontrollable number of yatris [70,000 on one day by some
> accounts], the yatris were stranded for nearly a week.
> People in Islamabad [Anantnag] made free langers at Nai Basti, Sarnal,
> Kadipora, Khanabal, Anchidora, Mattan and Che and sheltered thousands of
> yatris in their homes, shops and even mosques. In Che, there was a small
> incident which i thought was funny, when the yatris thanking god for thier
> safety started shouting 'bolo amarnath ki jai' while housed in mosque.
> However, Yatris were not thrown out of the mosque, though some people
> questioned the practice while others laughed.
> As a child we used to stand on the either side of road in Kadipora greeting
> walking yatris with 'babu ji sitaram'..... Certainly those days yatra was
> peaceful and a very low key affair. But now as any religion is marketed and
> branded, Amarnath Yatra has fallen to it as well.
>
> Murtaza Shibli
> www.kashmiraffairs.org
>
> --- On Mon, 30/6/08, Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Amaranth Yatra
> To: "Shuddhabrata Sengupta" <shuddha at sarai.net>
> Cc: "sarai list" <>
> Date: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 6:00 PM
>
> Apropos this, today's express or TOI I forget which has a story on Kashmiri
> Muslim's setting up food stalls and rest houses for stranded pilgrims.
> Several pilgrims were housed in people's homes when they discovered they
> had
> nowhere to stay. On being asked they said this was nothing new and that the
> local Muslim community had been hosting poilgrims for the lat hundred years
> and they saw no reason to change this tradition despite the current fracas
> over land allotment. So I would suggest Pavan that you excercise a little
> restraint before you make intemperate remarks about intolerance.
>
> best
> A
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> <shuddha at sarai.net>
> wrote:
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