Feeling (Ehsaas) with reality (Haqeeqat)

Feeling (Ehsaas) with reality (Haqeeqat)

Keeping self-interested feeling and attributing it to bring peace in Kashmir is futile, until one feels the reality of the vale of Kashmir which continues to bleed peace. The factual stories of Innocent killings, enforced disappearances, fake encounters are the ‘symphonies’ to understand the actuality of the perpetrators and the sufferings of the oppressed. It distresses a common Kashmiri more when the feeling for Kashmir is thought to be created with an alien language and merely for those who couldn’t and don’t understand in their own tongue.

The parallel concert- Haqeeqat e Kashmir (Reality of Kashmir), organized by the civil society of Kashmir to protest Zubin Mehta’s concert proved it today after hundreds of Kashmiris came to witness the concert in the municipal Park near Lal chowk, despite hundred others were restricted by police to enter. The protest concert was held at the same moment in the park when music Director of Israel Philanharmonic orchestra Zubin Mehta was playing western classical symphonies in the Shalimar Garden. The multi facet parallel concert organized by the civil society determined that acquainting with the reality (Haqeeqat) of Kashmir prioritizes for having the real sense (Ehsaas) of bringing peace in Kashmir. The protest concert (Haqeeqat e Kashmir); packed with poetry recitation, stage dramas and folk art attained triumph today. For they had neither big light to illuminate the stage nor remarkable music system; not even any big artists to perform, but they had the soul, a shared aim- a feeling with reality.