DISCLAIMER:
This is a politically neutral post. Please keep that in mind while you read this.
“I visited kashmir two months ago. I went from Srinagar, to Kargil to Leh, to Khardung La and back to srinagar.
It was a beautiful experience. The recent happenings in jammu and kashmir have painted a very different picture of this beautiful place in my mind. And I’ve been there. Seen it, felt the beauty of the entire state.
Whether you stand with the decision, or against it, don’t make kashmir a debate.
It isn’t children running scared and it isn’t gunfires and terrified civilians. It isn’t curfews and barbed wire fences, it isn’t all terror.
Kashmir is beautiful. It’s valleys and mountains and sunsets like you’ve never seen before, it’s cotton clouds following your car and stars that you can’t see over the citylights. It’s early morning sounds and yellow birds and a very blue sky. It’s also barren and deserted someplaces but still breathtakingly beautiful. Please don’t teach children so that when they think of Kashmir, they paint a war zone. Teach them so that they paint the most wonderful landscapes and rivers running and changing colours.
My heart goes out to the beautiful people of this state, not because I stand for or against the political decisions, but because their home has been smeared in red across the country. Their home is being associated with violence. Their home has become a debate.
What can we do? We can remind people of the beauty that Kashmir holds. Nothing less than heaven. Nothing less than paradise.
So that we can go back to the real question,
Was Kashmir made in heaven? Or heaven made in Kashmir? ”