Kashmir

Few things stay with me…few issues….few causes…..few topics…..kashmir is one of them.,….dint I say dat I gt this awful habit of drifting away …it just struck again,…
Emerson Process Management….my company (dat sounded rich again :) ),,….d place where I work…we recently achieved 1 billion sales in Asia Pacific.. sumtime last year..it ws a big day fr us…fr those who were imp. actually..notexactly me…so yes…we had this Managing Director yappin on a video conf with full public display…all sounded happy..all the working class made noise….whistled..clapped…had gud free fud….the screen had the snapshot of the MD alonside the country map which they represented…then came INDIA….his foto nd the map of INDIA…..d map showed no KASHMIR!!!!!!!!!we were like shocked…ok..ok..d we means me…bt yes..i had company too…we started…."Kasmir hamara hai"…..it doesnt belong to anyone else…its ours….Kashmir is in India….well….sum other set of imp ppl wen questioned,said that in the global map Kashmir doesn’t show up in India…wot nonsense….we shud have it till the LOC atleast…..dat snapshot actually showed India with no Kashmir at all…now dats bad!!..dats really bad…..
I read Shalimar the clown…..Salman Rushdie…dis guy is gud..i must say….dis was my first read of rushdie ….sumtimes wonder hw does an author kno so much???..frm where do dey get the info….i wudnt kno if wt dey write is correct or wrong..bt d fact dat even to write things dat may not be facts in the frst place too takes sumthing….hw d hell do dey get to kno…abt certain things,certain places,certain ppl…I have been residing at one place fr thelast 24yrs,I still wudnt kno as much to write a bloody buk or a section to say the least…..amazing….dis is wt i like d most abt authors…nd their books….
Rushdie dude has written so well on Kashmir in his novel,dat u really feel it in u….he has depicted a gory picture…he has been able to say so mch of dat place without writing much either….amazing.,…simply,truly amazing….no…no..no…..im nt posting excerpts frm der..sorry….but ya….d torture,the phase dat ppl in Kashmir had to face from the Indian Army and Militants alike have been described such dat u urself feel the pain….i gt a friend frm kashmir…she had once told me hw dey had to start frm scratch….bad man….really bad….its difficult….its sad….