[Reader-list] India frozen in LeT instigated stone!

[TaraPrakash]

Now that it's time for Amarnath Yatra and summers is a good time for 
employment generation in tourism industry, why should stone pelters remain 
unemployed? And why shouldn't the song writers have it too?
And why shouldn't the benefits of all this employment go to the other side 
of the border? We are all happy.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wali Arifi" <waliarifi3 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:27 AM
Subject: [Reader-list] India frozen in LeT instigated stone!


> Now that every Kashmiri is an LeT instigated stone pelter, Chidhabaram now
> gets a song from the street. Here is for those Indians...
>
>
>
>
> A Stone Pelter’s Song
>
> BY FEROZ RATHER
>
>
>
> Out of the last cries
>
> Of my fellows, those boys
>
> Killed on street yesterday,
>
> Out of the sky and the summer rains
>
> In my own eyes,
>
> In my own voice,
>
> I compose a song of freedom
>
>
> Out of these stones,
>
> Forged in the brooks of Jhelum,
>
> These gifts from the Mountain,
>
> Tearing the air apart
>
> In fury, with jubilation,
>
> Ah! Here I hit their backs,
>
> I exist in these stones,
>
> I don’t need to tell them,
>
> I compose a song of freedom
>
>
> Out of my own blood and brain,
>
> Smearing my dead face,
>
> Out of a vow of
>
> A mother’s love for her son,
>
> Against the dagger of Abraham
>
> When God ceases to be an assassin,
>
> Out of the triumph of truth
>
> Rises a song of celebration,
>
> I live a song of freedom
>
>
> Out of the rebels’ chants,
>
> Against their bullets,
>
> Against the shells and the smoke of death,
>
> Out of these slogans
>
> Sung in unison,
>
> These songs of defiance and anger,
>
> I’m my own poet, a majnoon
>
> Of this country, an unfailing lover,
>
> I’m a stone pelter
>
> I sing a song of freedom.
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