[Reader-list] "Kashmiri Pandits fear dream may turn sour"

[Pawan Durani]

Dear Kshemendra,

Well , Well , Well.... What saddens you ?

Had i not written to you long back that you are believing in something which
is not possible. What makes you think that your thoughts or optimism would
change 1000 + years of victimisation and persecution of hindus in Kashmir.

I pity you. For you are what we had been for 1000+ years. Believers in
nonsense.

Kshemendra, wake up and if not for yourself , for generations ahead
.....tell them that Kashmir is not for Hindus and stop believing in dreams.

For Kashmiri Hindus , the nightmare started more than 1000 years back and it
still continues and it is people like you who defend what is not right by
trying a handshake with someone who holds a dagger in other hand.

Regards

Pawan






On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I feel personally slighted by this news item.
>
> It has always been my belief that the right place for the Kashmiri
> Pandit for the purposes of continuation of the Kashmiri Pandit identity is
> in Kashmir. I still believe that.
>
> This news item saddens me
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
> Kashmiri Pandits fear dream may turn sour
> Seema Sharma
> Tribune News Service
>
> "Kashmiri Pandits fear dream may turn sour"
> Seema Sharma
> Tribune News Service
>
> Jammu, February 17
>
> Expectation is running high among around 10,000 migrant Kashmiri Pandits,
> who filled in consent forms to return to their homeland in the Kashmir
> valley in April last year under the Prime Minister's package for their
> return and rehabilitation, amid fear whether conditions are conducive.
>
> The three families, which returned to the valley and tried to live in their
> homes there, had to return humiliated by people and authorities.
>
> Yogesh Kandhari, who took voluntary retirement from Deccan Aviation to
> settle down in his home in the Habba Kadal area of Srinagar a year ago,
> returned to Jammu unhappy and dejected within a year.
>
> His dreams got shattered when he found a part of his house and a shop
> encroached.
>
> Kandhari says, "Last year, I went back to Habba Kadal with my family in a
> hope to spend the remaining part of my life at my birth place. But I was
> shocked to see a large part of my house encroached upon by my neighbour.
> Somebody also broke open one of my three shops and occupied it. It took me
> one year running from one office to another to retrieve the rights of my
> properties. I was able to get my house vacated, but my shop was handed over
> to the intruder. Aghast over the sickening attitude of people there, I
> returned to Jammu to find peace of mind."
>
> Pushkar Razdan, a retired teacher at Pulwama, has not been even that lucky.
> He saw his house taken over by the state police and farms invaded by local
> people.
>
> He lamented, "Expensive walnut trees in my orchards were felled and stolen
> by some people. A 32 feet road was drawn across my fields without my
> permission. My house was taken over by the state police, which created a
> police post there after the infamous Vandhama mass killing case. The police
> even refused to pay me rent. Now, the matter has got stuck with the Home
> Ministry. Ultimately, I had to leave my home in the valley."
>
> Equally distraught is Triloki Nath Bhatt, a resident of Monghama, who is
> physically challenged with a twisted arm by birth, to see that his own
> people have become estranged to him.
>
> "When I went back this year to reconstruct my ruined home in Monghama to
> make it worth living, I was restrained by people and the local
> administration. I was aghast to know that I can't carry out construction at
> my place. This shows people who keep an eye on profitable properties never
> want us to return." He too returned empty-handed and disheartened.
>
>
> http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090218/j&k.htm#3
>
>
>
>
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