'Mother I will make you cry today'

Last week, 30th June marked yet another tragic event in the golden history of our motherland. Asif Rather, aged nine ran out of his home in Baramulla district in search of his elder brother but unfortunately instead of finding his brother, he found himself lacerated by a bullet fired by securitymen tearing his tender flesh and ripping him into pieces... Ironically this event couldn't even find a place in the newspaper let alone the T.V channels. How I come to know about this turpitude is again strikinglly shameful: a poem written by a member of planning commission in the 19th page of a national daily and that too after 4 days of the incident.
He was looking for Tauqeer his pal of all times, standing confused and afraid, away form his Maa, in the middle of a jungle of strangers with long legs where only this tiny little creature unfortunately met his inevitable fate but the question comes forth us: for how long we will blame fate and fortune for all these?
‘Gar firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin asto", said Jahangir, but what have we made out of this heaven on earth? An innocent 9 year old falling victim to a bullet fired by his own countrymen and this is not just a boy, there have been thousands of Asif Rather killed in this bestiality in past and GOD only knows how many more. There seems to be no end to it. There once used to be love in the air, now there are bullets. The valley used to be a rainbow once, now its painted red. Mist used to be the cover of the night above the Dal, now there are fumes and flames allover.
As his blood runs cold on the streets of Baramulla the seven lines of Quran's first surah, echo in the sinews of our mind....
'Mother I will make you cry today'.....
"How many mothers of my Kashmir, the place where I was born, will cry today? Will cry tomorrow"? Asks the writer of that touching poem.


P.S: This post is dedicated to all those who have lost their life in the fiasco of Kashmir, who are fighting their days to live in that heaven where the phrase, safe haven has no meaning. It is a post dedicated to kashmiriyat, azadi, kaum and deshbhakti.