[Reader-list] Yasin Malik Ko Gusa Kyoun Aatta Hai

[taraprakash]

Cousin Yasin Malik is as likely to sell my land without my permission as 
cousin Manmohan Singh is. The latter is a distant cousin so my protest is 
likely to be louder and more vociferous if the latter sells my land. In that 
case scenario my closer cousin is also likely to join me in demonstrating 
anger. He didn't have personally to lose, but he lost the opportunity to 
gain. I am sorry for your plight Inder, but what happened is not really 
unusual; the problem is not exclusive for you or for the "valley". You, Mr. 
Malik and Mr. Thakuray  are all justified in demonstrating their anger.

Anger is a natural human emotion, it has to find its way in to you, if 
people don't have an issue, they can create one. If we don't lose our land, 
we lose our identity. Did you see a recent anger on an old song demonstrated 
by an organization that seems to have run out of issues? I wish people were 
as angry about child labour, corruption, discrimination on the basis of 
wealth, or lack thereof. Some fatvas, some trishools, some anger, to rectify 
these problems are so much needed.

As about the distant and close cousins they often happen to be the rulers of 
our destiny:

Kya afrangi, kya tatari
Aankh bachi aur barchi mari
Kab tak janta ki bechani
Kab tak janta ki bezari
Kab tak sarmaye ke dhandhe
Kab tak ye saramayadari?

Badal bijali rain andhiyari
Dukh ki mari parja sari
Bacche burhe sab dukhiya hain
Dukhiya nar hai dukhya nari
Basti basti loot machi hai
Sab baniye hain sab vyapari.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Inder Salim" <indersalim at gmail.com>
To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: [Reader-list] Yasin Malik Ko Gusa Kyoun Aatta Hai


> Yasin Malik ko gusa kyoun aata hai?
>
> Recently, i managed a ' Biradari meeting ' (civil society meeting )
> in  Jammu to settle my personal land dispute with my Ist cousin, who
> sold my ancestral property ( home ) clendestinely in Kashmir.  My
> counsin, being too elderly,  started with things alien to the core
> dispute. Some personal attacks and lies which made me angry, and i
> shouted in the middle of his opening presentation, which perhaps
> ruined the chances of a just settlement. The case is still in the High
> court, but 'out of court' settlement is difficult to arrive , because
> he is now the beneficiary of our decadent' civil' legal procedures,
> and even if settled in my favour, he has really very little to lose,
> except to part away with the 1/2 share which is already mine. And why
> he should he honour the ' biradari' , money  after all matters.
>
> I  regret that the meeting failed, not because i lost my cool, but
> that i was optimistic about powers of ' biradiri'. Now, i should
> either forget my rights, or throw stones at him. The pain in the ass
> is that i cant forget my rights, and neither i can throw stones...
>
> only diplomats, lawayers, judges and other such high profile ranks are
> trained to mask their emotions. Common man , often speak what they
> feel is true, even loudly. Because, we live in the mundane reality of
> our  reality, which looks existential from most of the angles. And the
> reality is contaminated, both literally and metaphorically.
>
> unfortunately the trend is diplomatically speading to other circles as
> well,  and the worst is that this so called cool mannerism falls in
> the catagory of non-violence, and ah, the rest is violence!
> Creative people, i guess, ought to deal with violence creatively.
> Indeed, violence creates violence, and so catogorized, but who two
> people do live in peace ?  It is not a black and white game.
>
> Burning British garments was Gandhi's creative political move, which
> has nothing to do with Violence or non-violence. Perhaps, Jinnah was
> less creative and could not think beyond his master idea: Pakistan.
> Some sense of humour could have changed the destiny of millions in
> 1947, but alas.
>
> Given the fact that people can be defined beyond this violence
> non-violence binary,  which might give us the idea why we beleive in
> civil societies, and for what, if not to undersand the anger of a
> community or even an individual. To say, that a clean shaven politican
> X is non-violent in comparison to a militant named Y is again our own
> limitation to enter the maze of our society.  Any society is
> intrinsically made up of a mosaic of different realites, violence and
> non-violence are just two colours in it.
>
> Stragely enough, we human beings proliferate on earth by being so
> violent to each other in the first place, and simultaneously to the
> nautre as well, and yet we keep on talking about the de-merits of
> non-violence. Quite ironica, and if we think only about the explicit
> forms of non-violence we are again doing some violence to the subject.
> Non-violence is one of most  profound subjects, because it often
> begins with that  ' know they self' thing,  and then the other. And do
> we have a formula to manifest ' the self' ?
>
> Since Mahabarata, we have zillions of cases related to land dispute,
> and millions pending in our  courts for the same reason. The violence
> erupts from that sense of not being to own what our given complex
> beings desire. It is true that we dont know what we actualy want, and
> yet we have a reason to pick up a fight for protecting what we feel we
> possess.
>
> Here, i may start writing on why Yasin Malik expressed anger about
> 'Kashmir issue' in a recent ' civil'  meeting at Delhi's Teen Murti.
> But that is again a repetition of what we already know......given the
> fact that 'Kahsmir issue' is now thoroughly internalized in the valley
> minds; they feel it is personal. The violence of ' the past'  has
> perhaps made it happen like that.
>
>
> with love
> is
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> http://indersalim.livejournal.com
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