Synopsis of my next story ‘A Stone Pelter’
This non-fiction story
does toil to reflect the shift in the way of insurgency and upshot of its
exploited laborers. The story is about a boy, Burhan, born in 1990 in the month
of Mirwaiz Molvi Mohmmad Farooq’s assassination. Since his childhood, he grew
up with lullabies and tales of Azaadi,
in the core of Srinagar- Mujahid Manzil.
He has been passionate, as any other youth of Shahre Khaas-down town, about struggle of freedom. He has been all
agog for an occasion to bear out his passion since he put to think. Through a
peer, he starts visiting office of Tahreek-e-Hurriyat
(G) in 2006 and gets motivated and imbibed with the Pro- Islamic Ideology
for freedom struggle. The ideology would be so enthusiastic for a Muslim
teenaged boy, as to put his life on peril. He gets the opening in 2006 protests,
the agitation where people were protesting against Afzal Guru’s death penalty
by the supreme court of India. This was a time when armed struggle was at its
low ebb; and the era had reverted to stone pelting. Burhan commences his
activity in stone pelting in 2006 and sustains it, till he gets arrested by the
state police on 9th July 2010.-the year of new Intifada in Kashmir.
After his arrest, he gets barred in nearest police station at Maharaj Gunj
where from he is shifted to many other police stations for FIRs, investigations
and interrogations. Stone in his hand eventually makes his arrival at the
central jail of Srinagar. Although, he feels himself relieved from the torture
of state police; but is often haunted by the walls of the Jail which stands in
front of him like a leviathan. He meets many veteran Pro freedom leaders, his
contemporary stone Pelters, and Mujahideen
of Kashmir in prison. He comes across some non Kashmiri militants from Pakistan
and Afghanistan in jail, which makes him to feel proud about his being in jail.
The silence and solitude of jail puts him to think about his exploitation. He is
reallocated to Rajouri District jail from Srinagar, where he encounters many
criminals. His shifts become usual, for he is called by JICs and interrogated.
Eventually, he gets released on 31st May 2011.
Although, completing his imprisonment with so
much of agony, Burhan is still jailed with memories.
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