[Reader-list] Is Farhan Haq ( UNO offical ) an Artist?

[Inder Salim]

Dear all


Thinking about the Kashmir and the Historical promise which were not
hounred and the present
 KANE JUNG ( stone Pelting ) pheonomenon which is claiming lives of
innocent/stone pelters people in scores. Offically it is 26 since
Friday only'. What are the ways of Protest: i want to see some artists
joining in this process too.

Farhan Haq is one such person (artist) who perhaps passed  his own as
UN Secretary General's comment to the press which was published all
over thw world. The Indian Govt, who are clueless in kashmir feel
obviously unnereved and have made the UN Chief's office to issue a
denial statement, perhaps clandestinely circulated by Farhan. So that
makes him an artist?

There has to be  some thinking about the ways how to stop Security
forces in Kashmir  to kill the stone-pelters. In other places in India
protesters burn buses  and what not, but we never  hear police killing
even children and women during such street actions. No wonder there is
deep Anti India sentiment in Kashmir.

Kashmir was never a Heaven as i i know, but not such a hell as it is
now,  but at least bollywood in 60-70's found in this one:
Yeh Wadiya Kashmir hai .... ( This  valley of Kashmir....  )  Janat
ka nazar, (a heavenly spectacle )  which has refrence to the the old
Persian couplet that if there is Heaven on Earth, it is here , it is
here, it is here,

 But there is Wada ( promise ) in Wadiya ( valley ) which is not
speaking the conflict but  just about its romantic landscape

Thus the reality depicted on screen is quite different from the realty
on ground.

May be by opening some sheen from some very peaceful glossy wods
reveal the pain underneath.

with love
inder salim
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