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Dear Readers, Earlier too, SARS broke out in China in World is struggling to comprehend the new November 2002, but the Chinese authorities monster in the form of COVID19. Though informed the WHO only in February 2003. various authorities across the world are trying This time around they tried to hush up the to contain the pandemic, yet it might take COVID19 issue. But its geographical spread longer before this disease is finally stamped forced them to acknowledge its outbreak. out and normal social and economic life It is pertinent to mention that American restored. Society of Microbiology in its review in year In India the government authorities 2007, had stated that there is a presence of restricted the spread earlier than some other SARS-CoV virus in various horseshoe bats countries by announcing timely lockdown and its eating by Chinese people would be like which, till now, has shown good results. There a time bomb which may lead to deadly spread. were three options before the government; one Again, in the year 2003, the then DG of WHO, - take no action and allow the spread of the Harlem Brundtland, had asked the world to virus which would have resulted in larger identify these SARS viruses, its outbreak and deaths, collapse of health care system, besides its spread from animal to human with special huge emotional stress. The second was to mention of Chinese wet markets from where immediately take preventive measures against the spread is believed to have started. the spread of the virus. These included However, world remained inactive on the success and second, by following the strict in the human history where people obey their exhortations of then DG WHO. instructions of lockdown. During the Janta leader in the resolve to fight the pandemic and identifying the patients, their contacts and nd preventing any ingress from outside the Consequently, now the whole humanity is Curfew on 22 March, people across the stand together. country. The third one was to undertake facing an existential crisis. country followed the call of PM Modi and The nation witnessed Virat Swaroop in the suppression strategy. The strategy adopted by Large number of people across the globe clapped for 5 minutes at 5 pm in the evening to form of awakened citizens coming together government has worked well though the are attributing the spread to China and some express their gratitude to the various health for a single cause, irrespective of constrains of spread has not been fully contained. But going have even named the pandemic as Chinese workers, especially to those doctors, nurses, geography. These two events are akin to those by the vast population of India and its size, we Virus. This has led to the annoyance of the policemen, sanitation workers and other occasions of freedom struggle where the may take solace in taming the virus to some Chinese authorities. This Chinese Virus is agencies who are working as frontline nation followed the words of Mahatma extent. The suppression strategy too has also responsible for shattering the livelihood warriors against COVID19. One could see the Gandhi to attain independence from the worked well so far. By taking measures like of people and the impending recession, which unity of thought and expression among the British yoke. With these two events the world social distancing, etc., the curve has not been the coming months will witness. Needless to countrymen across the length and breadth of will now see India with a different perspective the country while expressing their thanks to of respect and awe. In the words of Swami allowed to grow uncontrollably. This strategy say that the world needs to take strong notice th was used by South Korea and they have of such pandemics and ensure that guidelines them. Again, this unity was recreated on 5 Vivekananda; reduced the mortality rate to less than 1%. issued by the United Nations are followed in April wherein countrymen followed the “All the tortures and miseries of the However, we need to keep our fingers crossed future. We hope this pandemic will not prove appeal of the PM and lit a lamp at 9 pm in the world will pass over without hurting as we have not yet reached the watershed. as dangerous as Flu Pandemic of 1918, which evening with a prayer to overcome COVID19 us, and we shall come out of the flames was responsible for some 20 million deaths. pandemic. These two events are going to unite China's role India further as everyone felt that he or she is like Prahlada, so long as we hold on to COVID19 was detected in Wuhan as early as Nation Salutes Health Workers; not alone in this struggle for survival but this grandest of all our inheritances, in November 2019. As per some media Amid the lockdown our people across the whole nation is together to fight the pandemic. spirituality.” reports, the authoritarian Chinese regime country have shown tremendous will power Similarly, while lighting the lamp one could made all attempts to hide the same and hid the and character by supporting the initiative of see unison among the citizens at the same time information of outbreak from the world. the PM; first, by making the Janta Curfew a across the country. Such scenes are very rare

4 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 5 From the Editor-in-Chief

4 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 5 From the theories have been floated that the extensive trade relation with China. President's Desk Coronavirus is the by-product of some Their democratic system and open bio-weapon engineering. For the time societies make these countries being it is just a rumor as no proof of this vulnerable to the intended or unintended exists anywhere. But this is also a fact machinations of powerful and rich that no country, particularly the dictatorships like China. In the present COVID-19 PANDEMIC scientifically and technologically instant, this is what seems to have advanced countries, where research happened. Globalization Driven by Profit Motive & facilities are the best in the world (the In the olden days, not too far back, U.S, Israel, Germany, France, Britain, the western world called the eastern Without Transparency has Proved Disastrous etc), are so deeply involved in European countries as being ‘behind an responding to the mayhem caused by the iron curtain’. This signified a fact that he rate at which COVID 19, also dangerous situation, which will be pandemic to their own countries, that countries under the influence and called Coronavirus, is spreading unprecedented in scale and spread they have not been able to pay attention control of the erstwhile Soviet Union Tacross the world, leaving a trail of across a huge geographical area. to finding out the actual cause of the were shielded from the open western disaster behind, it would be difficult to As is well known, the Coronavirus spread of Coronavirus. Such matters can societies by a huge iron curtain, which foresee what state the world would be in originated from China’s Wuhan city in (and must) be attended to only after the neither allowed anything to enter nor by the time you received your monthly Hubei province, where doctors were devastation caused by the pandemic and exit from these countries. Today, the copy of Naad. receiving one to five patients everyday its spread has finally been reversed. same thing should have applied to china, Today is the seventh day of the as early as third week of November In an economically globalized but no country dare call china by any lockdown announced by the 2019. Unfortunately, china waited for world, where faster means of travel, such name as most economies of Government of India, effective 25 two months (21 Jan 2020) to issue its international trade, labour intensive western world are dependent upon March 2020; an unprecedented move first public warning, by which time, the factories and technically qualified china, which manufactures everything about which the PM Sh. Narendra Modi, spread of virus had attained an young people move from one country to from Pin to Plane and from small informed the Nation in a televised uncontrollable dimension. “A study another for work, earth has shrunk and souvenirs to special sophisticated speech on 24 March 2020. As the PM based on sophisticated scientific has truly turned into a global village. The submarines. A matter of fact, china explained, the Coronavirus-spread modeling has indicated that had Chinese level of international trade, controls the manufacture-supply chain needed to be stopped before it entered authorities acted three weeks earlier, the manufacturing, research, connectivity in a vice-like grip and therefore, western the stage III, a situation in which number of COVID-19 cases in China and inter-dependence among nations countries are loath to call the Chinese communities got infected en masse, would have been reduced by 95% and today is such that no country can remain bluff. The fact is that in the present day making it difficult to track the movement the global-spread of the disease isolated from any significant Inter-connected world profits are more of the carriers of this dreaded virus. limited,” writes internationally development taking place in any other important than human lives. Though, by and large, India has not, as renowned strategic thinker and writer country; be it terrorism, climate change, However, the man-made pandemic yet, seen the catastrophic levels of the Brahma Chellaney. It is a well-known environmental issues, spread of has caused unparalleled global infected and the consequent fatalities, fact that the Communist Party of China contagious diseases, etc. Therefore, it is economic crises, human suffering and one is keeping one’s fingers crossed and (CPC) is extremely sensitive to necessary to work with a high degree of social disruptions. Someone must be praying for the slowing down of the protecting its ‘face’ (reputation) at any transparency, which I am afraid, china held accountable for causing such a spread of the virus in India and its cost. In the instant case it did not let the did not follow in the instant case. Italy, massive human and material loss to the eventual neutralization. With a huge world know about the lurking danger which has till now suffered the highest world. END. population, wide-spread poverty, large that had the potential to hurt its number of deaths due to Coronavirus, number of ghettos and slums in which reputation. But in the end, it did so at the has a well-established trade relation with the urban poor live in cramped spaces, cost of preventing peoples’ suffering. china. Similarly, America imports 97% - Col. Tej K. Tikoo even the most restricted spread of the Lately, through mainstream media, of its antibiotics from China. France, Email : [email protected] COVID 19 in communities will create a and mostly through social media, Germany, Britain, Spain, etc., have Mob : 9899656400

6 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 7 From the theories have been floated that the extensive trade relation with China. President's Desk Coronavirus is the by-product of some Their democratic system and open bio-weapon engineering. For the time societies make these countries being it is just a rumor as no proof of this vulnerable to the intended or unintended exists anywhere. But this is also a fact machinations of powerful and rich that no country, particularly the dictatorships like China. In the present COVID-19 PANDEMIC scientifically and technologically instant, this is what seems to have advanced countries, where research happened. Globalization Driven by Profit Motive & facilities are the best in the world (the In the olden days, not too far back, U.S, Israel, Germany, France, Britain, the western world called the eastern Without Transparency has Proved Disastrous etc), are so deeply involved in European countries as being ‘behind an responding to the mayhem caused by the iron curtain’. This signified a fact that he rate at which COVID 19, also dangerous situation, which will be pandemic to their own countries, that countries under the influence and called Coronavirus, is spreading unprecedented in scale and spread they have not been able to pay attention control of the erstwhile Soviet Union Tacross the world, leaving a trail of across a huge geographical area. to finding out the actual cause of the were shielded from the open western disaster behind, it would be difficult to As is well known, the Coronavirus spread of Coronavirus. Such matters can societies by a huge iron curtain, which foresee what state the world would be in originated from China’s Wuhan city in (and must) be attended to only after the neither allowed anything to enter nor by the time you received your monthly Hubei province, where doctors were devastation caused by the pandemic and exit from these countries. Today, the copy of Naad. receiving one to five patients everyday its spread has finally been reversed. same thing should have applied to china, Today is the seventh day of the as early as third week of November In an economically globalized but no country dare call china by any lockdown announced by the 2019. Unfortunately, china waited for world, where faster means of travel, such name as most economies of Government of India, effective 25 two months (21 Jan 2020) to issue its international trade, labour intensive western world are dependent upon March 2020; an unprecedented move first public warning, by which time, the factories and technically qualified china, which manufactures everything about which the PM Sh. Narendra Modi, spread of virus had attained an young people move from one country to from Pin to Plane and from small informed the Nation in a televised uncontrollable dimension. “A study another for work, earth has shrunk and souvenirs to special sophisticated speech on 24 March 2020. As the PM based on sophisticated scientific has truly turned into a global village. The submarines. A matter of fact, china explained, the Coronavirus-spread modeling has indicated that had Chinese level of international trade, controls the manufacture-supply chain needed to be stopped before it entered authorities acted three weeks earlier, the manufacturing, research, connectivity in a vice-like grip and therefore, western the stage III, a situation in which number of COVID-19 cases in China and inter-dependence among nations countries are loath to call the Chinese communities got infected en masse, would have been reduced by 95% and today is such that no country can remain bluff. The fact is that in the present day making it difficult to track the movement the global-spread of the disease isolated from any significant Inter-connected world profits are more of the carriers of this dreaded virus. limited,” writes internationally development taking place in any other important than human lives. Though, by and large, India has not, as renowned strategic thinker and writer country; be it terrorism, climate change, However, the man-made pandemic yet, seen the catastrophic levels of the Brahma Chellaney. It is a well-known environmental issues, spread of has caused unparalleled global infected and the consequent fatalities, fact that the Communist Party of China contagious diseases, etc. Therefore, it is economic crises, human suffering and one is keeping one’s fingers crossed and (CPC) is extremely sensitive to necessary to work with a high degree of social disruptions. Someone must be praying for the slowing down of the protecting its ‘face’ (reputation) at any transparency, which I am afraid, china held accountable for causing such a spread of the virus in India and its cost. In the instant case it did not let the did not follow in the instant case. Italy, massive human and material loss to the eventual neutralization. With a huge world know about the lurking danger which has till now suffered the highest world. END. population, wide-spread poverty, large that had the potential to hurt its number of deaths due to Coronavirus, number of ghettos and slums in which reputation. But in the end, it did so at the has a well-established trade relation with the urban poor live in cramped spaces, cost of preventing peoples’ suffering. china. Similarly, America imports 97% - Col. Tej K. Tikoo even the most restricted spread of the Lately, through mainstream media, of its antibiotics from China. France, Email : [email protected] COVID 19 in communities will create a and mostly through social media, Germany, Britain, Spain, etc., have Mob : 9899656400

6 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 7 9. Associations could devise a claimed the responsibility for this attack. mechanism to coordinate information-flow with Over the last few months it is the second Maharaj K. Pajan local authorities so that these too could be in attack on the Sikhs of Afghanistan, who were loop while dealing with a grave situation. once a robust minority, but are now reduced to a There are several other measures that the few hundred. associations can institute to maximize the The attack clearly establishes the effective response to this once-in-a-century justification for the enactment of CAA and the General Secretary's Column menace. futility of the orchestrated protests against it. In response to the appeal sent to the We appeal to the Govt of the Islamic community on 27 March 2020, AIKS received Republic of Afghanistan to ensure the safety and Newly Constituted Core Group Meets suggestions given are tabulated below: some positive feedback from some of our security of its minorities. The newly constituted HQ Core group held its 1. We need to organize ourselves in a affiliates who have taken initial steps to face the AIKS Civil Writ Petition No. 534 of 2006 first meeting at R K Puram office on Saturday manner that within the specific geographical coming challenges. As reported earlier this petition was heard on 6th 14th March 2020 and held extensive discussion area, we can get the information about our own It was heartening to receive a very March 2020 by the double bench of Hon’ble the on many vital issues related to the community people, particularly the elderly, well in time to positive response from our stalwart member, Dr Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh and means to be adopted by AIKS to tackle them. render whatever assistance is required. K L Chowdhury, who, despite his own Bindal where AIKS was represented by a battery The meeting was chaired by President Col. Tej K 2. Our Premier Medical Help line, the constraints, offered to help in whatever manner of lawyers comprising Sh. P.N Raina, Sr. Tikoo and attended by S/sh. M L Malla, Vijay KMECT, which enjoys a great credibility and possible. I am reproducing the message received Advocate, Sh. P.N Goja, Advocate, Sh. J. A Kashkari, Dalip Kaul, Rajinder Premi, Sunil wide footprint in the community, could perhaps from Doctor Sahab in response to our appeal. Hamal, Advocate, Sh. Virender Bhat, Advocate Kaul, Sudhir Shah, Sanjay Sapru and the get involved with this effort in some form. This “I commend AIKS for this initiative. In and Sh. K.L Bhat, Advocate on the respondent undersigned. Issues deliberated included the decision can only be taken by the organization this context I offer my humble services for the behalf Sh. Rajesh Thapa Dy. AG and Sh. S.S means to enhance readership of Naad, itself. However, We need to keep in mind their community in every form possible especially as Nanda, Sr. AAG appeared for arguments. organization’s increased connectivity with its constraints in terms of both human and financial a medical professional. I am at their disposal to The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir affiliate organisations, ongoing petition of AIKS resources. answer any relevant questions, to offer advice on pursuant to the order passed by the court on 29th being heard at Hon’ble High Court of Jammu & 3. We need to avoid religious/social any ailments through WhatsApp and email. January 2020, filed a compliance report on 29th Kashmir which has entered a crucial stage and functions to bring our activities in tune with the You may kindly pass on this information February 2020 and Sh. P N Raina sought time to many other issues. It was decided to strength the government-issued restrictions. We have had to the community through your forum or other file a response. Sh. Raina on a perfunctory presence of AIKS both at Jammu & Srinagar Hawans even as late as middle of March. portals. examination of the status report brought to the considering the scenario post abrogation of 4. Every association could draw up a list We must put in our very best to fight the attention of the Hon’ble Court that no Articles 370 and 35 A and the emerging political of senior citizens living within their area, menace of Corona. Every individual effort information regarding the report filed by developments. particularly of those living alone. matters in the collective good. We must put all Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir on 2nd Another important decision taken was to 5. We could also seek volunteers who our resources at the disposal of the central March 2019 and pointed out the large gaps in the highlight the issues and concerns of the KP could be contacted in times of emergency to government and strengthen the resolve of our submissions and also in the report of DM/ DC Community through a letter to be submitted by render physical help when needed. beloved prime minister and his dedicated team Anantnag submitted on 10th May 2019. He AIKS to all sitting members of both houses of 6. Associations could appeal for donation to win this war”. further raised grievance about complaints made parliament and to heads of all political parties of face masks and hand sanitizers. These could I would like to reassure everyone that by migrants regarding their land not being seeking their intervention in resolving the be stored at one place and issued to the needy AIKS would do everything possible to render registered by the respondents. Several other multiple issues confronting the community. community members whenever required. whatever assistance is required to help our issues were also raised by the eminent lawyer. The court directed the Divisional Dealing With Coronavirus Emergency At Our 7. Every association has its own community/ associations/ affiliates to WhatsApp group. As we can see, huge volume strengthen their hands in this fight against the Commissioner, Kashmir, to furnish status report Community Level of messages/videos on these are ‘forwards’. deadly virus. furnishing the status report concerning the As Covid 19 is playing havoc with the Time has come for Admins of these groups to specific questions regarding procedure followed All India Kashmiri Samaj Condemns Attack on communities across the world, AIKS has issued restrict posting what is not essential. With lock for receipt and examination of complaints from an appeal on 27th March to the community to be down likely to last for some time, the social Gurudwara in Kabul on 24 March 2020. the kashmiri Migrants, details of proceedings of prepared for the worst, while at the same time, media is going to be under heavy load, AIKS during an Emergency Video Conference land acquisition of property which was owned hoping for the best. Fortunately, we have several disrupting the internet. Therefore, only the most Meeting on 26th March passed a resolution by the migrants, steps being taken for protection area-specific associations/organizations whose useful information be put on these groups. expressing its deep anguish and pain at the huge of un-encroached land and many other issues homogeneous composition makes them best- 8. If possible, it would be useful to loss of life in the dastardly attack on the Sikhs related to the kashmiri migrants. suited instruments for responding effectively to nominate a mob number within a group as an who had congregated at a Gurudwara in Kabul, The case has now been listed for next this crisis. It is through these instruments that the emergency-response number in order to act as a on 24 March 2020. AIKS unequivocally hearing on 21st April 2020. community can contribute to the national effort bridge between the needy and the association condemns this attack on the microscopic Sikh M K Pajan in whatever manner we can. Some of the /institution. minority by the much-reviled IS, which has General Secretary, AIKS

8 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 9 9. Associations could devise a claimed the responsibility for this attack. mechanism to coordinate information-flow with Over the last few months it is the second Maharaj K. Pajan local authorities so that these too could be in attack on the Sikhs of Afghanistan, who were loop while dealing with a grave situation. once a robust minority, but are now reduced to a There are several other measures that the few hundred. associations can institute to maximize the The attack clearly establishes the effective response to this once-in-a-century justification for the enactment of CAA and the General Secretary's Column menace. futility of the orchestrated protests against it. In response to the appeal sent to the We appeal to the Govt of the Islamic community on 27 March 2020, AIKS received Republic of Afghanistan to ensure the safety and Newly Constituted Core Group Meets suggestions given are tabulated below: some positive feedback from some of our security of its minorities. The newly constituted HQ Core group held its 1. We need to organize ourselves in a affiliates who have taken initial steps to face the AIKS Civil Writ Petition No. 534 of 2006 first meeting at R K Puram office on Saturday manner that within the specific geographical coming challenges. As reported earlier this petition was heard on 6th 14th March 2020 and held extensive discussion area, we can get the information about our own It was heartening to receive a very March 2020 by the double bench of Hon’ble the on many vital issues related to the community people, particularly the elderly, well in time to positive response from our stalwart member, Dr Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rajesh and means to be adopted by AIKS to tackle them. render whatever assistance is required. K L Chowdhury, who, despite his own Bindal where AIKS was represented by a battery The meeting was chaired by President Col. Tej K 2. Our Premier Medical Help line, the constraints, offered to help in whatever manner of lawyers comprising Sh. P.N Raina, Sr. Tikoo and attended by S/sh. M L Malla, Vijay KMECT, which enjoys a great credibility and possible. I am reproducing the message received Advocate, Sh. P.N Goja, Advocate, Sh. J. A Kashkari, Dalip Kaul, Rajinder Premi, Sunil wide footprint in the community, could perhaps from Doctor Sahab in response to our appeal. Hamal, Advocate, Sh. Virender Bhat, Advocate Kaul, Sudhir Shah, Sanjay Sapru and the get involved with this effort in some form. This “I commend AIKS for this initiative. In and Sh. K.L Bhat, Advocate on the respondent undersigned. Issues deliberated included the decision can only be taken by the organization this context I offer my humble services for the behalf Sh. Rajesh Thapa Dy. AG and Sh. S.S means to enhance readership of Naad, itself. However, We need to keep in mind their community in every form possible especially as Nanda, Sr. AAG appeared for arguments. organization’s increased connectivity with its constraints in terms of both human and financial a medical professional. I am at their disposal to The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir affiliate organisations, ongoing petition of AIKS resources. answer any relevant questions, to offer advice on pursuant to the order passed by the court on 29th being heard at Hon’ble High Court of Jammu & 3. We need to avoid religious/social any ailments through WhatsApp and email. January 2020, filed a compliance report on 29th Kashmir which has entered a crucial stage and functions to bring our activities in tune with the You may kindly pass on this information February 2020 and Sh. P N Raina sought time to many other issues. It was decided to strength the government-issued restrictions. We have had to the community through your forum or other file a response. Sh. Raina on a perfunctory presence of AIKS both at Jammu & Srinagar Hawans even as late as middle of March. portals. examination of the status report brought to the considering the scenario post abrogation of 4. Every association could draw up a list We must put in our very best to fight the attention of the Hon’ble Court that no Articles 370 and 35 A and the emerging political of senior citizens living within their area, menace of Corona. Every individual effort information regarding the report filed by developments. particularly of those living alone. matters in the collective good. We must put all Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir on 2nd Another important decision taken was to 5. We could also seek volunteers who our resources at the disposal of the central March 2019 and pointed out the large gaps in the highlight the issues and concerns of the KP could be contacted in times of emergency to government and strengthen the resolve of our submissions and also in the report of DM/ DC Community through a letter to be submitted by render physical help when needed. beloved prime minister and his dedicated team Anantnag submitted on 10th May 2019. He AIKS to all sitting members of both houses of 6. Associations could appeal for donation to win this war”. further raised grievance about complaints made parliament and to heads of all political parties of face masks and hand sanitizers. These could I would like to reassure everyone that by migrants regarding their land not being seeking their intervention in resolving the be stored at one place and issued to the needy AIKS would do everything possible to render registered by the respondents. Several other multiple issues confronting the community. community members whenever required. whatever assistance is required to help our issues were also raised by the eminent lawyer. The court directed the Divisional Dealing With Coronavirus Emergency At Our 7. Every association has its own community/ associations/ affiliates to WhatsApp group. As we can see, huge volume strengthen their hands in this fight against the Commissioner, Kashmir, to furnish status report Community Level of messages/videos on these are ‘forwards’. deadly virus. furnishing the status report concerning the As Covid 19 is playing havoc with the Time has come for Admins of these groups to specific questions regarding procedure followed All India Kashmiri Samaj Condemns Attack on communities across the world, AIKS has issued restrict posting what is not essential. With lock for receipt and examination of complaints from an appeal on 27th March to the community to be down likely to last for some time, the social Gurudwara in Kabul on 24 March 2020. the kashmiri Migrants, details of proceedings of prepared for the worst, while at the same time, media is going to be under heavy load, AIKS during an Emergency Video Conference land acquisition of property which was owned hoping for the best. Fortunately, we have several disrupting the internet. Therefore, only the most Meeting on 26th March passed a resolution by the migrants, steps being taken for protection area-specific associations/organizations whose useful information be put on these groups. expressing its deep anguish and pain at the huge of un-encroached land and many other issues homogeneous composition makes them best- 8. If possible, it would be useful to loss of life in the dastardly attack on the Sikhs related to the kashmiri migrants. suited instruments for responding effectively to nominate a mob number within a group as an who had congregated at a Gurudwara in Kabul, The case has now been listed for next this crisis. It is through these instruments that the emergency-response number in order to act as a on 24 March 2020. AIKS unequivocally hearing on 21st April 2020. community can contribute to the national effort bridge between the needy and the association condemns this attack on the microscopic Sikh M K Pajan in whatever manner we can. Some of the /institution. minority by the much-reviled IS, which has General Secretary, AIKS

8 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 9 7. Our doctors and healthcare professionals are in the forefront of fighting this war 24x7. ALL INDIA KASHMIRI SAMAJ (REGD.) We request that all of them be provided with protective gear in order to ensure their own (APEX BODY OF INDIAN & OVERSEAS KASHMIRI PANDIT ORGANISATIONS) safety. We can be safe only If they are safe. 244, Sector - 3, R. K. Puram, New Delhi – 110022, Telefax: 011-26107431 Web: www.aiks.org; E-mail: [email protected] AIKS - GeNext (youth) is ready to assist the administration during this time of need in any form. April 07, 2020 With Warm Regards, Yours Sincerely Shri Girish Chandra Murmu Team AIKS – GeNext (Youth) Sanjay Sapru :- 9810282928 ([email protected]) Hon’ble Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir Sunil Kaul :- 8527609898 ([email protected] ) Raj Bhavan Jammu-180001 CC : 1) Advisors to LG – Jammu & Kashmir UT / Pr Secy Planning J&K Sub: AIKS - GenNext (youth) seek the administration's focus on overall good of the people of 2) Divisional Commissioners Jammu / Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir UT due to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. 3) Deputy Commissioners Jammu 4) Mayor, JMC Respected Shri Murmu Ji, 5) Municipal Commissioner, JMC All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS), GenNext (Youth), appreciates the efforts of your administration to face the challenges posed by the COVID19 pandemic; an effort which was even recognized by hon’ble High Court of Jammu & Kashmir UT. However, AIKS - GenNext (youth) would seek the administration’s further focus on the following areas for the overall good of the people of Jammu & Kashmir UT. 1. Jammu being a transit hub for traders/tourists, etc., to Kashmir, hill districts of Jammu SHRADHANJALI and Leh, monitoring of the transients is essential and will be needed even after the lockdown restrictions are lifted. All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) deeply grieves the demise 2. Due to limited resources available and nature of the terrain of Jammu region, it has not of Shri (Prof.) Somnath Raina. He breathed his last on 30th been possible for your administration to carry out extensive tests. We request you to March 2020 at Apollo Hospital in Bangalore. increase the testing facility as more resources become available. This is particularly An Educationist, English professor as a profession. He applicable to BPL families and those living in remote villages. Jammu city also has will be remembered as the first to open an Academy in J&K, migrant labour across the industrial and residential areas which needs to be taken care of. along with his brother Late Prof. Kanya Lal Raina. The Academy was adjacent to Nawakadal Bridge on the bank of 3. From media reports it has been learnt that Tablighi Jamaat has its centres in various areas Vitasta in Srinagar. of Jammu region, which need to be kept under constant COVID 19 surveillance. As social activists in Kashmir, the duo professor 4. The pandemic put many people, particularly the poor, under heavy financial stress. brothers were famous by the names "Suma Bhagwan & Therefore, all provisions extended by central Govt in this direction may please be Kanya Bhagwan". extended to the people of the UT, including the Kashmiri Pandit migrants. He was presently President of Kashmir Hindu Samiti, 5. As the children’s’ studies are adversely affected due to lock-down, high speed internet Bangalore. He was previously Vice-president of All India facility be made available to ensure that on-line conduct of classes can be made effective Kashmiri Samaj for some time. Prof. Raina was highly social, humorous, very and fruitful. affectionate and noble person besides being a very good 6. It is requested that the Administration make optimum use of the electronic media to philanthropist. Shri (Prof.) Somnath Raina establish a rapport with the people and keep them updated on regular basis on facilities AIKS expresses deepest condolences to the bereaved family and prays to Almighty for available and the measures being taken to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Enough eternal peace to the noble soul. toll-free phone numbers should be assigned to be used by the public for such purposes/ in Om Shanti ! case of any emergency.

10 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 11 7. Our doctors and healthcare professionals are in the forefront of fighting this war 24x7. ALL INDIA KASHMIRI SAMAJ (REGD.) We request that all of them be provided with protective gear in order to ensure their own (APEX BODY OF INDIAN & OVERSEAS KASHMIRI PANDIT ORGANISATIONS) safety. We can be safe only If they are safe. 244, Sector - 3, R. K. Puram, New Delhi – 110022, Telefax: 011-26107431 Web: www.aiks.org; E-mail: [email protected] AIKS - GeNext (youth) is ready to assist the administration during this time of need in any form. April 07, 2020 With Warm Regards, Yours Sincerely Shri Girish Chandra Murmu Team AIKS – GeNext (Youth) Sanjay Sapru :- 9810282928 ([email protected]) Hon’ble Lt Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir Sunil Kaul :- 8527609898 ([email protected] ) Raj Bhavan Jammu-180001 CC : 1) Advisors to LG – Jammu & Kashmir UT / Pr Secy Planning J&K Sub: AIKS - GenNext (youth) seek the administration's focus on overall good of the people of 2) Divisional Commissioners Jammu / Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir UT due to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. 3) Deputy Commissioners Jammu 4) Mayor, JMC Respected Shri Murmu Ji, 5) Municipal Commissioner, JMC All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS), GenNext (Youth), appreciates the efforts of your administration to face the challenges posed by the COVID19 pandemic; an effort which was even recognized by hon’ble High Court of Jammu & Kashmir UT. However, AIKS - GenNext (youth) would seek the administration’s further focus on the following areas for the overall good of the people of Jammu & Kashmir UT. 1. Jammu being a transit hub for traders/tourists, etc., to Kashmir, hill districts of Jammu SHRADHANJALI and Leh, monitoring of the transients is essential and will be needed even after the lockdown restrictions are lifted. All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) deeply grieves the demise 2. Due to limited resources available and nature of the terrain of Jammu region, it has not of Shri (Prof.) Somnath Raina. He breathed his last on 30th been possible for your administration to carry out extensive tests. We request you to March 2020 at Apollo Hospital in Bangalore. increase the testing facility as more resources become available. This is particularly An Educationist, English professor as a profession. He applicable to BPL families and those living in remote villages. Jammu city also has will be remembered as the first to open an Academy in J&K, migrant labour across the industrial and residential areas which needs to be taken care of. along with his brother Late Prof. Kanya Lal Raina. The Academy was adjacent to Nawakadal Bridge on the bank of 3. From media reports it has been learnt that Tablighi Jamaat has its centres in various areas Vitasta in Srinagar. of Jammu region, which need to be kept under constant COVID 19 surveillance. As social activists in Kashmir, the duo professor 4. The pandemic put many people, particularly the poor, under heavy financial stress. brothers were famous by the names "Suma Bhagwan & Therefore, all provisions extended by central Govt in this direction may please be Kanya Bhagwan". extended to the people of the UT, including the Kashmiri Pandit migrants. He was presently President of Kashmir Hindu Samiti, 5. As the children’s’ studies are adversely affected due to lock-down, high speed internet Bangalore. He was previously Vice-president of All India facility be made available to ensure that on-line conduct of classes can be made effective Kashmiri Samaj for some time. Prof. Raina was highly social, humorous, very and fruitful. affectionate and noble person besides being a very good 6. It is requested that the Administration make optimum use of the electronic media to philanthropist. Shri (Prof.) Somnath Raina establish a rapport with the people and keep them updated on regular basis on facilities AIKS expresses deepest condolences to the bereaved family and prays to Almighty for available and the measures being taken to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Enough eternal peace to the noble soul. toll-free phone numbers should be assigned to be used by the public for such purposes/ in Om Shanti ! case of any emergency.

10 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 11 getting opportunities of competing for gazetted Press Release from Sh. Ajey Bharti NEWS cadre throughout country where number of posts will be much more than the number of post in PM Package Employees Facing FOLIO Jammu Kashmir. This will be in a spirit of Shortage reciprocity and equality, without tag of being Displaced Employees working in Kashmir exclusivist. Youth of J&K are capable, aspiring valley are reporting shortage of essential and do not shy competition. Vested interest, commodities. There are other people who were AIKS takes up with Lt. Governor and Amendment notified to the Jammu and provoking must be exposed. in Kashmir valley for short visits and could not Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property leave before lockdown. Administration is high ups of UT J&K to Release of (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Contribution of KSS Faridabad requested to look into their concerns and ensure Monthly Relief in Favour of Kashmir Distress sales) Act 1997, besides defining the towards PM Cares Fund their welfare. District administration of respective Districts and Relief organisation also Migrant Relief Holders Domicile for the purpose of the Jammu and COVID-19 has become the single most Kashmir Civil Services Decentralization and needs to take necessary steps to address the Receiving several calls from Jammu that the dangerous protein that has shaken the whole genuine grievances of these employees at an relief holders were facing difficulties in Recruitment Act, 2010 is heartening and world. However, looking at positive aspect of it, welcome. It fulfills the commitment of Union earliest. lockdown due to covid-19, the President took up this has created some kind of cohesion amongst Necessary steps to protect them from the matter with the concerns, to draw their Government, repeated umpteen times by both the communities. Today, everyone makes a bee Hon’ble. Prime Minister and Home Minister, to Chinese virus named Covid19 also need to be attention to the hardships faced by the displaced line in India to make contribution, in one or the taken. persons (called migrants) of Kashmir, living in address the apprehensions of people of J&K. other form, to help fight this tiny monster. Our The Competent authority under the Jammu I would also like to bring to the notice Jammu. This serious issue was brought to the revered Prime Minister's call for support got an and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property administration the fact that some case of persons notice of the Lt. Governor as a humanitarian overwhelming response. We are pleased to (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on whose one or the other parent expired during the issue. inform that Kashmiri Sewak Samaj, Faridabad, Distress sales) Act 1997 has been asked to “ current lock-down are facing trouble reaching AIKS has been given to understand, the in its own humble way has contributed Rs 1 prepare the details of immovable property” The their homes to a) join the cremation and/ or b) problems faced by average relief- holder Lakh to PM Cares fund on April 3, 2020. We other last rites like 10th Day Kriya. families, living within or outside the camps Displaced Community “ in such format, as may be prescribed, and take appropriate action to stand by our Prime Minister in this hour of crisis. Almost every family is scattered these because of the ongoing lock-down due to days. We understand that it is neither possible COVID 19 pandemic, is being solved. evict unauthorised occupant of such migrant property”. SHKJAM Distributes Sanitizers in nor desirable for those who are far away to reach The Displaced community has been for last Jammu. Family members of such persons living Press Release from Sh. Ajey Bharti Jammu in Delhi –NCR or Punjab, Haryana Himachal 30 years running from pillar to post to protect Shri Hari Kirtan Adyatmik Jagrati mission The issuance of the Jammu and left behind immovable property including that Pradesh tend to come to Jammu to join the Express concern over the outbreak of family using their own transport facility. Two of Kashmir Reorganisation belonging to temples Shrines and Cremation Coronavirus also called Covid-19 is challenging Grounds. This welcome amendment has opened such cases have been reported just in one day. In (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, threat to the humanity. Now it is to be fought on new gates to restore it. We are hopeful justices one case an Inspector of CRPF cremated his war footing to defeat Coronavirus by one and all. 2020 including Domicile Law will no more be denied in these cases. deceased mother in Delhi but came to Jammu Hari Kirtan mission is out on job to educate The issuance of the Jammu and Kashmir Definition of Domicile and reserving posts with ashes and proper paperwork done yet he Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) up to Level 4 of 7th CPC pay scales, i.e., 22500 people and in gratitude towards all health, front was retained at Vijaypur and put in Quarantine. Order, 2020 is a welcome step. It clearly basic pay for domiciles is a much needed line workers, security, sanitation and everyone Similarly, other person came from Gurgaon to indicates that in spite of being fully involved in protection that will address the genuine in the line of duty serving selflessly to ensure cremate his mother but was not allowed to enter fight against deadly Covid19 pandemic the GOI apprehensions of the local youth. It means more India's victory in the battle of Covid-19. Mission state at Lakhanpur. is conscious of its responsibilities particularly than 3/4th of jobs created in the government is working day night to educate people across The authorities need to have protocol for towards the citizens of UT of Jammu and sector are protected for the youth of Union city and Sh. Moti Lal Raina, Organizers such cases. While we support every preventive Kashmir. territory. Some people including a section of voluntarily distributed bottled of sanitizer, measure, yet this human aspect needs to be Section 96 of the Jammu and Kashmir media has confused Level 4 posts with class 4 Masks in every temple, ashram and people in looked into. It is strictly only for close kith & kin Reorganisation Act, 2019 empowered the posts. different Mohalla’s and shall continue the like sons and daughters of any such person who Central Government to order such adaptations According to one estimate number of process in future as well. has expired. Even in their case necessary and modifications of the law, whether by way of vacancies presently available around 70 People are told to be calm, not to panic and precaution like screening, home quarantine and repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or thousand vacancies is in up to Level 4 and about maintain social distancing. Mission assures to under watch rule must be applied. expedient. This exercise is a logical step toward 7 thousand only are available in gazetted cadre. distribute more bottles. An appeal to the masses: I appeal to the authorities and LG complete integration after reorganisation of the That is around 90% of are reserved for youth of 1. Protect yourselves, administration to look into the issue erstwhile state into two Union Territories. It was Jammu Kashmir. 2. Protect your loved ones & sympathetically as 21 days is not a short period also a necessary legal requirement. Moreover the youth of the UT are also 3. Protect your community. where such more cases will not surface.

12 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 13 getting opportunities of competing for gazetted Press Release from Sh. Ajey Bharti NEWS cadre throughout country where number of posts will be much more than the number of post in PM Package Employees Facing FOLIO Jammu Kashmir. This will be in a spirit of Shortage reciprocity and equality, without tag of being Displaced Employees working in Kashmir exclusivist. Youth of J&K are capable, aspiring valley are reporting shortage of essential and do not shy competition. Vested interest, commodities. There are other people who were AIKS takes up with Lt. Governor and Amendment notified to the Jammu and provoking must be exposed. in Kashmir valley for short visits and could not Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property leave before lockdown. Administration is high ups of UT J&K to Release of (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Contribution of KSS Faridabad requested to look into their concerns and ensure Monthly Relief in Favour of Kashmir Distress sales) Act 1997, besides defining the towards PM Cares Fund their welfare. District administration of respective Districts and Relief organisation also Migrant Relief Holders Domicile for the purpose of the Jammu and COVID-19 has become the single most Kashmir Civil Services Decentralization and needs to take necessary steps to address the Receiving several calls from Jammu that the dangerous protein that has shaken the whole genuine grievances of these employees at an relief holders were facing difficulties in Recruitment Act, 2010 is heartening and world. However, looking at positive aspect of it, welcome. It fulfills the commitment of Union earliest. lockdown due to covid-19, the President took up this has created some kind of cohesion amongst Necessary steps to protect them from the matter with the concerns, to draw their Government, repeated umpteen times by both the communities. Today, everyone makes a bee Hon’ble. Prime Minister and Home Minister, to Chinese virus named Covid19 also need to be attention to the hardships faced by the displaced line in India to make contribution, in one or the taken. persons (called migrants) of Kashmir, living in address the apprehensions of people of J&K. other form, to help fight this tiny monster. Our The Competent authority under the Jammu I would also like to bring to the notice Jammu. This serious issue was brought to the revered Prime Minister's call for support got an and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property administration the fact that some case of persons notice of the Lt. Governor as a humanitarian overwhelming response. We are pleased to (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on whose one or the other parent expired during the issue. inform that Kashmiri Sewak Samaj, Faridabad, Distress sales) Act 1997 has been asked to “ current lock-down are facing trouble reaching AIKS has been given to understand, the in its own humble way has contributed Rs 1 prepare the details of immovable property” The their homes to a) join the cremation and/ or b) problems faced by average relief- holder Lakh to PM Cares fund on April 3, 2020. We other last rites like 10th Day Kriya. families, living within or outside the camps Displaced Community “ in such format, as may be prescribed, and take appropriate action to stand by our Prime Minister in this hour of crisis. Almost every family is scattered these because of the ongoing lock-down due to days. We understand that it is neither possible COVID 19 pandemic, is being solved. evict unauthorised occupant of such migrant property”. SHKJAM Distributes Sanitizers in nor desirable for those who are far away to reach The Displaced community has been for last Jammu. Family members of such persons living Press Release from Sh. Ajey Bharti Jammu in Delhi –NCR or Punjab, Haryana Himachal 30 years running from pillar to post to protect Shri Hari Kirtan Adyatmik Jagrati mission The issuance of the Jammu and left behind immovable property including that Pradesh tend to come to Jammu to join the Express concern over the outbreak of family using their own transport facility. Two of Kashmir Reorganisation belonging to temples Shrines and Cremation Coronavirus also called Covid-19 is challenging Grounds. This welcome amendment has opened such cases have been reported just in one day. In (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, threat to the humanity. Now it is to be fought on new gates to restore it. We are hopeful justices one case an Inspector of CRPF cremated his war footing to defeat Coronavirus by one and all. 2020 including Domicile Law will no more be denied in these cases. deceased mother in Delhi but came to Jammu Hari Kirtan mission is out on job to educate The issuance of the Jammu and Kashmir Definition of Domicile and reserving posts with ashes and proper paperwork done yet he Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) up to Level 4 of 7th CPC pay scales, i.e., 22500 people and in gratitude towards all health, front was retained at Vijaypur and put in Quarantine. Order, 2020 is a welcome step. It clearly basic pay for domiciles is a much needed line workers, security, sanitation and everyone Similarly, other person came from Gurgaon to indicates that in spite of being fully involved in protection that will address the genuine in the line of duty serving selflessly to ensure cremate his mother but was not allowed to enter fight against deadly Covid19 pandemic the GOI apprehensions of the local youth. It means more India's victory in the battle of Covid-19. Mission state at Lakhanpur. is conscious of its responsibilities particularly than 3/4th of jobs created in the government is working day night to educate people across The authorities need to have protocol for towards the citizens of UT of Jammu and sector are protected for the youth of Union city and Sh. Moti Lal Raina, Organizers such cases. While we support every preventive Kashmir. territory. Some people including a section of voluntarily distributed bottled of sanitizer, measure, yet this human aspect needs to be Section 96 of the Jammu and Kashmir media has confused Level 4 posts with class 4 Masks in every temple, ashram and people in looked into. It is strictly only for close kith & kin Reorganisation Act, 2019 empowered the posts. different Mohalla’s and shall continue the like sons and daughters of any such person who Central Government to order such adaptations According to one estimate number of process in future as well. has expired. Even in their case necessary and modifications of the law, whether by way of vacancies presently available around 70 People are told to be calm, not to panic and precaution like screening, home quarantine and repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or thousand vacancies is in up to Level 4 and about maintain social distancing. Mission assures to under watch rule must be applied. expedient. This exercise is a logical step toward 7 thousand only are available in gazetted cadre. distribute more bottles. An appeal to the masses: I appeal to the authorities and LG complete integration after reorganisation of the That is around 90% of are reserved for youth of 1. Protect yourselves, administration to look into the issue erstwhile state into two Union Territories. It was Jammu Kashmir. 2. Protect your loved ones & sympathetically as 21 days is not a short period also a necessary legal requirement. Moreover the youth of the UT are also 3. Protect your community. where such more cases will not surface.

12 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 13 SRMA", Vivekananda Kendra, Distancing System, put our all our positive strengths in to action to fight this deadly Virus to Nagdandi, Anantnag, Kashmir finish for good.” Donates in PM Care Fund Thanking the donors, the Chairman along Cover Story - Dr. Rajat Mitra As communicated by the Chairman, Shri Brij with his executive body of Shree Ramakrishna Lal Bhat of Vivekananda Kendra Nagdandi, Mahasammelan Ashram ( SRMA), Nagdandi, Anantnag; volunteers, members, associates & Anantnag has appreciated the contributors for local workers, connected to "Shree Ramakrishna contribution towards the PM's COVID -19 Care Mahasammelan Ashram( SRMA) Nagdandi, Fund. Anantnag, Kashmir has deposited Rs The Chairman, SRMA humbly request all 1,11,111.00 as donation in “Prime Ministers to contribute their share towards PM/ UT JK, What Did A World Famous Psychologist COVID-19 Care" Fund. COVID-19 Fund as a support to guard against The Chairman further appeals, “Let us all any anticipated financial setback besides through joint efforts following strictly the Social "Nation Building". Say After His Visit To India?

ast week I phoned my friends at the Table’ he had visited India and stayed here around the world and talked about travelling the length and breadth of our country. Lthe COVID-19 crisis. They are He was my mentor, guided my research and professionals in my field who I have known for coached me in grief work. An astute observer of years. We often share our joys and sorrows over human nature, I wondered what impressions he the transitions we go through. had of India when he left. This time I found a difference. Many of “Rajat,” he said, after a moment of silence them talked about feeling acutely lonely and when I asked him a few months later, “I have alienated. They shared how being locked up many impressions of your country, but there is inside homes; the alienation has overtaken them one I would like to tell you. Throughout my and brought them to a stage of questioning many journey I didn’t hear a baby cry in India. Even if I assumptions. One of them broke down saying he heard one crying, I found someone quickly came and his wife might separate due to the stress of and picked him up. When I was returning back the lockdown. They were a little surprised that I home, my plane had halted at Amsterdam airport wasn’t so perturbed and asked me why? I told and I heard a baby cry. His mother was buying them I wish I knew. “Maybe it is yet to come,” I something nearby. No one bothered or came to said to make them feel better. We talked about calm or comfort him. People passed by as if the times we have spent together in the past, nothing happened.” when they came to India, about our families and And then he said, “This may be one of the last but not the least the COVID19 virus. biggest strengths of you people. In crisis, in As I sat back, something said by my teacher times of darkness this is the spirit you can invoke came to my mind. George Kohlrieser is an to come out stronger.” internationally known expert on human Finishing his words, he said, “This incident attachment process, author of the book ‘Hostage taught me how alienated and detached some

;+ks{ Throughout my journey I didn’t hear a baby cry in India. Even if I heard one crying, I found someone quickly came and picked him up. When I was returning back home, my plane had halted at Amsterdam airport and I heard a baby cry. His mother was buying something nearby. No one bothered or came to calm or comfort him. People passed by as if nothing happened.”

14 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 15 SRMA", Vivekananda Kendra, Distancing System, put our all our positive strengths in to action to fight this deadly Virus to Nagdandi, Anantnag, Kashmir finish for good.” Donates in PM Care Fund Thanking the donors, the Chairman along Cover Story - Dr. Rajat Mitra As communicated by the Chairman, Shri Brij with his executive body of Shree Ramakrishna Lal Bhat of Vivekananda Kendra Nagdandi, Mahasammelan Ashram ( SRMA), Nagdandi, Anantnag; volunteers, members, associates & Anantnag has appreciated the contributors for local workers, connected to "Shree Ramakrishna contribution towards the PM's COVID -19 Care Mahasammelan Ashram( SRMA) Nagdandi, Fund. Anantnag, Kashmir has deposited Rs The Chairman, SRMA humbly request all 1,11,111.00 as donation in “Prime Ministers to contribute their share towards PM/ UT JK, What Did A World Famous Psychologist COVID-19 Care" Fund. COVID-19 Fund as a support to guard against The Chairman further appeals, “Let us all any anticipated financial setback besides through joint efforts following strictly the Social "Nation Building". Say After His Visit To India?

14 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 15 people have become. Your country still retains a do that in times of crisis? value that the world can learn from.” His words In 1994, I was in Bergamo, Italy, presently ring true every time I hear a baby cry. Having in the middle of COVID19 crisis. A group of grown up in a way where I never thought of this, townspeople had assembled in the main square an expert like him made me aware of what I and brought all metallic junk pieces dating back perhaps would have never known. to fifty years. They beat them together creating a But my article is not a comparison between music late in the night protesting against the war cultures. I only shared it to describe the by beating anything they could find. Somebody alienation of modern man from himself and how told me they are all musicians from the town we can heal that path. If not done today, long who have kept the musical instruments at home. after the trauma of COVID19 is gone, the When I met one of the band members and asked alienation of man would remain, forcing us to why they did it, he replied this was music from listen to the message that my professor reminded the soul that no musical instrument could bring me of. out. He explained when the town had almost The word ‘alienation’ comes from a Latin become a ghost town after the second world war, word that means the condition of being an the towns people had found hope once again by outsider to oneself. When and where did some of beating every metal piece they could find. us become outsiders to ourselves? He also said Today, the epidemic is forcing us, the that alienation lies at the root of many an illness. digital man, to confront and ask us the same Otto Rank, the psychiatrist, once said, question. We may be the last generation who “Loneliness is a part of self definition for the remains as the bridge between the old and the modern man.” He said loneliness is an issue we modern that separates the two periods and we will have to face each time we cut ourselves off may be the only one to bridge this alienation. from our roots. He felt that faced with the most The digitalization has become a disconnect, a violent time in history and technology that has loss to be filled up. The bubble the modern man the power to take over our lives, the day is not far built around himself has burst, this time by a off when we will have to face an alienation that virus. would force us to define ourselves taking us back to our roots. - George Kohlrieser, an internationally known expert on human attachment process The COVID19 virus comes to us at a time in history unlike any other time. The Indian in us Three decades ago, a conference was stands alienated and needs an awakening to heal organized to reflect over the issue ‘if man has itself. We are finding a new definition and really progressed and if so, how much’. Fifty man has progressed, but little and true progress which there is no escape. meaning in ‘vasudaiva kutumbakam’, the corner Nobel Laurates were given this question to will only come when he learns to integrate Many years ago, in Tihar jail, when a new stone of our identity. We need that definition reflect and find an answer over three days. Some science with art and spirituality. They also said jail was set up, the traditional bonding system in today but based on a collective unity amongst of the brightest minds of our time, at the end of that the enemy of man is his alienation from his the prisons called ‘phatta’ was disrupted with the conference got together and asserted that own self and he will find healing in the wisdom ourselves, more than any other time in history. It group of prisoners being shifted to different will decide where our civilization will go. of the ancients, especially the east. jails. The morbidity amongst those separated Today, when more and more people are reached an all time high and when the original The call by our Prime Minster to light a The living as single members in a household as groups were restored, the illnesses were lamp on the night of 5th April was perhaps to re- compared to any other time in history, this dramatically brought down. awaken and ignite that bond that connects and word ‘alienation’ comes message could not be truer. In Sweden 62% binds us together. We must re-awaken that as On the day of Janta curfew as I came out to people, as a nation, to feel whole again. Keeping households have only one member. In USA, ‘clap’, I noticed something that I had never seen from a Latin word that means that in mind, my family and I lit the lamp as an nearly a third of people live as single persons. before. All around me, in the apartment ordinary Indian. We connected with every the condition of being an This is spreading across the world and perhaps balconies, people looked at each other, smiling, Indian in those nine minutes and I know I am not becoming the biggest enemy of man. creating music with whatever they had found. alone when I say so. outsider to oneself. Alienation has become the biggest enemy Have we ever done that before? I tried to of our civilization. The present COVID19 crisis remember. Then I noticed something else. (Author is a Psychologist, Speaker and has the potential to take it to its limit, a point of Everyone was trying to synchronize his music Author of ‘The Infidel Next Door’, no return. It is an existential dilemma from with the other, elders and children alike. Do we www.rajatmitra.co.in)

16 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 17 people have become. Your country still retains a do that in times of crisis? value that the world can learn from.” His words In 1994, I was in Bergamo, Italy, presently ring true every time I hear a baby cry. Having in the middle of COVID19 crisis. A group of grown up in a way where I never thought of this, townspeople had assembled in the main square an expert like him made me aware of what I and brought all metallic junk pieces dating back perhaps would have never known. to fifty years. They beat them together creating a But my article is not a comparison between music late in the night protesting against the war cultures. I only shared it to describe the by beating anything they could find. Somebody alienation of modern man from himself and how told me they are all musicians from the town we can heal that path. If not done today, long who have kept the musical instruments at home. after the trauma of COVID19 is gone, the When I met one of the band members and asked alienation of man would remain, forcing us to why they did it, he replied this was music from listen to the message that my professor reminded the soul that no musical instrument could bring me of. out. He explained when the town had almost The word ‘alienation’ comes from a Latin become a ghost town after the second world war, word that means the condition of being an the towns people had found hope once again by outsider to oneself. When and where did some of beating every metal piece they could find. us become outsiders to ourselves? He also said Today, the epidemic is forcing us, the that alienation lies at the root of many an illness. digital man, to confront and ask us the same Otto Rank, the psychiatrist, once said, question. We may be the last generation who “Loneliness is a part of self definition for the remains as the bridge between the old and the modern man.” He said loneliness is an issue we modern that separates the two periods and we will have to face each time we cut ourselves off may be the only one to bridge this alienation. from our roots. He felt that faced with the most The digitalization has become a disconnect, a violent time in history and technology that has loss to be filled up. The bubble the modern man the power to take over our lives, the day is not far built around himself has burst, this time by a off when we will have to face an alienation that virus. would force us to define ourselves taking us back to our roots. - George Kohlrieser, an internationally known expert on human attachment process The COVID19 virus comes to us at a time in history unlike any other time. The Indian in us Three decades ago, a conference was stands alienated and needs an awakening to heal organized to reflect over the issue ‘if man has itself. We are finding a new definition and really progressed and if so, how much’. Fifty man has progressed, but little and true progress which there is no escape. meaning in ‘vasudaiva kutumbakam’, the corner Nobel Laurates were given this question to will only come when he learns to integrate Many years ago, in Tihar jail, when a new stone of our identity. We need that definition reflect and find an answer over three days. Some science with art and spirituality. They also said jail was set up, the traditional bonding system in today but based on a collective unity amongst of the brightest minds of our time, at the end of that the enemy of man is his alienation from his the prisons called ‘phatta’ was disrupted with the conference got together and asserted that own self and he will find healing in the wisdom ourselves, more than any other time in history. It group of prisoners being shifted to different will decide where our civilization will go. of the ancients, especially the east. jails. The morbidity amongst those separated Today, when more and more people are reached an all time high and when the original The call by our Prime Minster to light a The living as single members in a household as groups were restored, the illnesses were lamp on the night of 5th April was perhaps to re- compared to any other time in history, this dramatically brought down. awaken and ignite that bond that connects and word ‘alienation’ comes message could not be truer. In Sweden 62% binds us together. We must re-awaken that as On the day of Janta curfew as I came out to people, as a nation, to feel whole again. Keeping households have only one member. In USA, ‘clap’, I noticed something that I had never seen from a Latin word that means that in mind, my family and I lit the lamp as an nearly a third of people live as single persons. before. All around me, in the apartment ordinary Indian. We connected with every the condition of being an This is spreading across the world and perhaps balconies, people looked at each other, smiling, Indian in those nine minutes and I know I am not becoming the biggest enemy of man. creating music with whatever they had found. alone when I say so. outsider to oneself. Alienation has become the biggest enemy Have we ever done that before? I tried to of our civilization. The present COVID19 crisis remember. Then I noticed something else. (Author is a Psychologist, Speaker and has the potential to take it to its limit, a point of Everyone was trying to synchronize his music Author of ‘The Infidel Next Door’, no return. It is an existential dilemma from with the other, elders and children alike. Do we www.rajatmitra.co.in)

16 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 17 corona shape. These are the spikes with which The incubation period, transmissions as the virus hooks on to the lining of the respiratory well as the symptoms of the infection are tract of humans including the nose, air passages variable too. It takes upto 2 weeks for the virus Lead Article - Dr. K L Chowdhury and lungs, where it multiplies in the cells to after it enters the human body to cause wreak havoc. symptoms. Therefore, if someone is suspected Imagine the Sudarshan Chakra of Lord to have been exposed to the virus, 2-week Krishna as it moves towards its target. So also quarantine (isolation) is mandatory. Remember, does the corona virus move from the breath of an even an asymptomatic person can transmit the infected person and travel in the air to home on disease to others, like most respiratory viral to others. Coughing and sneezing send it to a diseases e.g. the common cold, influenza etc. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic larger distance at a faster speed than normal Covid -19 may not exhibit any symptoms in the speaking or breathing which has a reach of 5-6 victim. Others may have a mild illness - dry feet. That is why the minimum social distancing cough, fever, body aches - which may recover Creating Corona Consciousness advised is about two arms length. The virus may without any treatment. Such patients should settle on any surface and remain alive there for watch their course. If there is any deterioration variable period of time. An unsuspecting person like worsening cough and breathing difficulty, The world will not be the same after it emerges from this state of dissolution, the may touch it and carry it on hands, touch his own report to the hospital immediately. Keep your nose, eyes or mouth and get infected. He may go family physician posted of the details all along; parlaya. A lot will depend on whether those, who survive it, will have learnt the right anywhere, touch another person, or touch a door he might advise a test done. Online consultation lessons, or will go back to their erring ways. The post-Covid-19 Epoch is going to knob or a handle, the button of a lift or any other is a useful first step. Only just around five to define a new Yuga, a new world order. object. This is important to know about the viral seven percent may need hospitalization and spread from human contact (contagion) which most of them recover with resuscitative has the potential to carry it wherever the vector measures like respiratory assistance or by (carrier) moves. Thus one infected person may inserting a tube in the air passages for ventilation everal friends, patients and others have the present age of Kal Yuga, except the humans pass on the virus to any number of people and delivery of oxygen. A much smaller been asking me to write about Corona. So themselves. directly or indirectly resulting in an exponential percentage go through a rapidly downhill course Smuch has been already written, spoken For that, We need to create, what I call, a community spread. involving both lungs and death may supervene and debated about it as to fill all the libraries of Corona consciousness, an understanding of the Despite the rapidly accumulating despite all efforts. the world and yet, people are baffled and in genesis, the nature, and the unforeseen knowledge we are still trying to understand the No drugs are effective as yet except for disbelief, ignorant and even arrogant about it. consequences of this pandemic that may last traits of the virus, as baffling as understating some anecdotal evidence of a few, like anti- After all, an apocalyptic situation has suddenly several months, even a year or more. human character. How long does it survive on malarials and anti-virals. engulfed the world as never before in our different surfaces and clothes, under different What do we know about Corona? What is Scientists are seriously engaged in finding memory. temperatures, or in the atmosphere, it’s still not Covid-19? drugs to fight the virus, making effective The world has been deluged by invisible, fully defined. The general observation that Well, it is a virus of the Coronavirus family, that vaccines to prevent healthy people from ultramicroscopic particles stalking the globe like respiratory viruses are active in winter gives us has been around for a long time causing disease contracting the infection, and in creating test kits a phantom, unleashing a lethal armamentarium, hope that summer, which has already set in, in mammals (including humans) and birds. for speedy screening for the virus in patients, killing humans everywhere, respecting no might diminish the intensity and spread of the Viruses are notorious in that they change their contacts, clusters, communities, and even whole geographical boundaries, no religion or faith, no virus. The different rates of spread in different form and character like a person wearing populations. It is a gargantuan task. Human and standing or status, striking the high and low countries, especially the relative moderation different disguises. We call it mutation. The financial resources are limited, but there can't be equally, and the young and old, bringing with which it has unfolded in India so far has present pandemic is the result of a mutant any compromises when a pestilence threatens humanity to its knees. It has become a leveler generated some hope that India will be spared variety that surfaced in China around November whole mankind. and has caused a pandemic of panic and grief, the devastating spell. Only time will tell. The 2019, so the name Covid-19. Co-corona, vi- Extensive human trials are going on. It may and forced almost all nations to lockdown, to early lockdown enforced in the country has been virus, d-disease and 19 for the year of discovery take months to find the right answers. There is stay indoors, bringing life to a grinding halt pivotal in checkmating the spread somewhat. An of this novel variety. hope that a vaccine may be ready by the end of everywhere. extension for some more time after the present The name 'corona' derives from Latin 3-week curfew might be in order. No doubt, it the year. But, going by the rate of infection in It is worse than what befell aeons back which means a crown or halo like the solar has huge immediate and long-term economic, different countries, the virus could be lethal to when Lord Vishnu had to take the Matsya corona (around the sun). Viewed under the ultra- social and political consequences, but we may hundreds of thousands of humans by that time incarnation to salvage mankind from total microscope, the surface of the virus particle is have to bite the bullet now rather than face the despite the untiring efforts of medical deluge. Pray, who is going to be the saviour in covered with club-shaped spikes giving it the battery later. professionals engaged in the fierce encounter

18 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 19 corona shape. These are the spikes with which The incubation period, transmissions as the virus hooks on to the lining of the respiratory well as the symptoms of the infection are tract of humans including the nose, air passages variable too. It takes upto 2 weeks for the virus Lead Article - Dr. K L Chowdhury and lungs, where it multiplies in the cells to after it enters the human body to cause wreak havoc. symptoms. Therefore, if someone is suspected Imagine the Sudarshan Chakra of Lord to have been exposed to the virus, 2-week Krishna as it moves towards its target. So also quarantine (isolation) is mandatory. Remember, does the corona virus move from the breath of an even an asymptomatic person can transmit the infected person and travel in the air to home on disease to others, like most respiratory viral to others. Coughing and sneezing send it to a diseases e.g. the common cold, influenza etc. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic larger distance at a faster speed than normal Covid -19 may not exhibit any symptoms in the speaking or breathing which has a reach of 5-6 victim. Others may have a mild illness - dry feet. That is why the minimum social distancing cough, fever, body aches - which may recover Creating Corona Consciousness advised is about two arms length. The virus may without any treatment. Such patients should settle on any surface and remain alive there for watch their course. If there is any deterioration variable period of time. An unsuspecting person like worsening cough and breathing difficulty, The world will not be the same after it emerges from this state of dissolution, the may touch it and carry it on hands, touch his own report to the hospital immediately. Keep your nose, eyes or mouth and get infected. He may go family physician posted of the details all along; parlaya. A lot will depend on whether those, who survive it, will have learnt the right anywhere, touch another person, or touch a door he might advise a test done. Online consultation lessons, or will go back to their erring ways. The post-Covid-19 Epoch is going to knob or a handle, the button of a lift or any other is a useful first step. Only just around five to define a new Yuga, a new world order. object. This is important to know about the viral seven percent may need hospitalization and spread from human contact (contagion) which most of them recover with resuscitative has the potential to carry it wherever the vector measures like respiratory assistance or by (carrier) moves. Thus one infected person may inserting a tube in the air passages for ventilation everal friends, patients and others have the present age of Kal Yuga, except the humans pass on the virus to any number of people and delivery of oxygen. A much smaller been asking me to write about Corona. So themselves. directly or indirectly resulting in an exponential percentage go through a rapidly downhill course Smuch has been already written, spoken For that, We need to create, what I call, a community spread. involving both lungs and death may supervene and debated about it as to fill all the libraries of Corona consciousness, an understanding of the Despite the rapidly accumulating despite all efforts. the world and yet, people are baffled and in genesis, the nature, and the unforeseen knowledge we are still trying to understand the No drugs are effective as yet except for disbelief, ignorant and even arrogant about it. consequences of this pandemic that may last traits of the virus, as baffling as understating some anecdotal evidence of a few, like anti- After all, an apocalyptic situation has suddenly several months, even a year or more. human character. How long does it survive on malarials and anti-virals. engulfed the world as never before in our different surfaces and clothes, under different What do we know about Corona? What is Scientists are seriously engaged in finding memory. temperatures, or in the atmosphere, it’s still not Covid-19? drugs to fight the virus, making effective The world has been deluged by invisible, fully defined. The general observation that Well, it is a virus of the Coronavirus family, that vaccines to prevent healthy people from ultramicroscopic particles stalking the globe like respiratory viruses are active in winter gives us has been around for a long time causing disease contracting the infection, and in creating test kits a phantom, unleashing a lethal armamentarium, hope that summer, which has already set in, in mammals (including humans) and birds. for speedy screening for the virus in patients, killing humans everywhere, respecting no might diminish the intensity and spread of the Viruses are notorious in that they change their contacts, clusters, communities, and even whole geographical boundaries, no religion or faith, no virus. The different rates of spread in different form and character like a person wearing populations. It is a gargantuan task. Human and standing or status, striking the high and low countries, especially the relative moderation different disguises. We call it mutation. The financial resources are limited, but there can't be equally, and the young and old, bringing with which it has unfolded in India so far has present pandemic is the result of a mutant any compromises when a pestilence threatens humanity to its knees. It has become a leveler generated some hope that India will be spared variety that surfaced in China around November whole mankind. and has caused a pandemic of panic and grief, the devastating spell. Only time will tell. The 2019, so the name Covid-19. Co-corona, vi- Extensive human trials are going on. It may and forced almost all nations to lockdown, to early lockdown enforced in the country has been virus, d-disease and 19 for the year of discovery take months to find the right answers. There is stay indoors, bringing life to a grinding halt pivotal in checkmating the spread somewhat. An of this novel variety. hope that a vaccine may be ready by the end of everywhere. extension for some more time after the present The name 'corona' derives from Latin 3-week curfew might be in order. No doubt, it the year. But, going by the rate of infection in It is worse than what befell aeons back which means a crown or halo like the solar has huge immediate and long-term economic, different countries, the virus could be lethal to when Lord Vishnu had to take the Matsya corona (around the sun). Viewed under the ultra- social and political consequences, but we may hundreds of thousands of humans by that time incarnation to salvage mankind from total microscope, the surface of the virus particle is have to bite the bullet now rather than face the despite the untiring efforts of medical deluge. Pray, who is going to be the saviour in covered with club-shaped spikes giving it the battery later. professionals engaged in the fierce encounter

18 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 19 with the greatest enemy of mankind. More importantly, it is time to sit back and introspect about the higher truths, about the Meanwhile, what about others, the meaning of life, about the unseen hand of a common masses cooped up in their homes? higher entity that controls the world. The great Cover Story - Brahma Chellaney There may an opportunity waiting for us scientists that ever lived also believed in even in this extreme adversity. Either we philosophical inquiry, the world view, and the meekly succumb or stand up to the challenge. It unifying theories that govern the cosmos. It is is time for sagacity, self discipline and self also time for the world to wake upto to the inquiry. It’s time for action, not for depression quintessential moral philosophy of the and despondency. Find ways and means to cope Upanishads, 'Vasudev Kutumbakam' (the whole with the privations which are not going to last world is one family). Time to put an end to forever. Stay indoors. Maintain social distance. tinkering with biological agents like viruses, COVID-19 Pandemic Reshapes Avoid social and religious congregations. God because any attempts at their weaponisation wants to be left alone for some time, and wants (bioterrorism) may boomerang, with a serious us to seek answers from self. potential to consume its own creators like the Global Societies and Economies Patience is the watchword. Stay calm, for fictional Frankenstein monster. This is believed panic never helps. It takes reason away, erodes to have happened in Wuhan, the epicenter of the The world will not be the same confidence and diminishes immunity. Spend present pandemic. time gainfully by working from home as far as It is time for world leaders to unite and put possible (e.g. I make myself available to my heads together in the course correction of patients through e-consultation, phone, what's mankind. Through unregulated development app). Learn anew the virtue of self-help by doing and the exploitation of natural resources along household chores that were delegated previously with the rampant use of toxic chemicals and the to outside helpers. Observe the precautions massing up of effluents, humans have caused about hand washing, avoiding contact, using a untold environmental disasters and created mask when you have to go out. It is a lot of conditions ideal for genetic mutations in cells bother but worth it. If masks are not available, resulting in the high incidence of cancers and the fold a clean cotton hankie several times, wet it emergence of new strains of bugs - bacteria, slightly and fasten it around your mouth and fungi, viruses - new mutants, potent scourges for nose. mankind like Covid-19. Don't be misled by the unsubstantiated Finally, let us pay our unbounded gratitude claims about different diets, herbs, condiments, to the doctors and other health professions, the potions, drinks (hot, cold, lukewarm) etc. that brave warriors who are firefighting at the front circulate in social media. Eat normal diet; no lines, in the intensive care units of hospitals, change from your routine. against heavy odds and at great personal risk. Many of them have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Take time off to look at the sky, the beautiful Let us applaud the services of others who keep sunrises, sunsets and the star constellations. the cogs of governance functioning including Enjoy the silence for a while. Listen to spiritual the procurement of essential supplies, istorically, major wars have fostered relationships. profound changes in societies and President Donald Trump is right that “the music. Hear the birds sing in joy. Speak with the manufacturing life-saving equipments, and economies. Today’s China-originating world is paying a big price” for China’s initial, flowers that bloom brighter, watch the gauzy ensuring uninterrupted power, water, and H pandemic has created an acute international weeks-long cover-up of the COVID-19 butterflies. All these nature gifts have suddenly communication lines so vital in fighting this crisis akin to wartime. The world will not be the outbreak in Wuhan city and other parts of Hubei sprung into renewed life, reminding us of the pandemic. same after the pandemic. province. According to a South China Morning injustice we have heaped upon them. It is also The world will not be the same after it time to revive family values and bond together, The incalculable human and economic toll Post report based on Chinese government data, emerges from this state of dissolution, the exacted by the rapid spread of the killer Wuhan doctors began recording one to five spend precious hours with kids, indulge parents parlaya. A lot will depend on whether those, and elders, revive lost contacts with friends, Coronavirus promises to shake up global cases daily from November 17, before infection who survive it, will have learnt the right lessons, geopolitics, including China’s position in the rates spiraled and a raging epidemic unfolded. reach out to the sick and needy. Physical or will go back to their erring ways. The post- distancing can thus be bridged by emotional world. The pandemic’s enduring impacts will However, China waited until January 21 to issue Covid-19 Epoch is going to define a new Yuga, a likely extend from altering previously its first public warning. By then, the spread of proximity. new world order. dependable supply chains to reshaping bilateral the virus had gone beyond its control.

20 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 21 with the greatest enemy of mankind. More importantly, it is time to sit back and introspect about the higher truths, about the Meanwhile, what about others, the meaning of life, about the unseen hand of a common masses cooped up in their homes? higher entity that controls the world. The great Cover Story - Brahma Chellaney There may an opportunity waiting for us scientists that ever lived also believed in even in this extreme adversity. Either we philosophical inquiry, the world view, and the meekly succumb or stand up to the challenge. It unifying theories that govern the cosmos. It is is time for sagacity, self discipline and self also time for the world to wake upto to the inquiry. It’s time for action, not for depression quintessential moral philosophy of the and despondency. Find ways and means to cope Upanishads, 'Vasudev Kutumbakam' (the whole with the privations which are not going to last world is one family). Time to put an end to forever. Stay indoors. Maintain social distance. tinkering with biological agents like viruses, COVID-19 Pandemic Reshapes Avoid social and religious congregations. God because any attempts at their weaponisation wants to be left alone for some time, and wants (bioterrorism) may boomerang, with a serious us to seek answers from self. potential to consume its own creators like the Global Societies and Economies Patience is the watchword. Stay calm, for fictional Frankenstein monster. This is believed panic never helps. It takes reason away, erodes to have happened in Wuhan, the epicenter of the The world will not be the same confidence and diminishes immunity. Spend present pandemic. time gainfully by working from home as far as It is time for world leaders to unite and put possible (e.g. I make myself available to my heads together in the course correction of patients through e-consultation, phone, what's mankind. Through unregulated development app). Learn anew the virtue of self-help by doing and the exploitation of natural resources along household chores that were delegated previously with the rampant use of toxic chemicals and the to outside helpers. Observe the precautions massing up of effluents, humans have caused about hand washing, avoiding contact, using a untold environmental disasters and created mask when you have to go out. It is a lot of conditions ideal for genetic mutations in cells bother but worth it. If masks are not available, resulting in the high incidence of cancers and the fold a clean cotton hankie several times, wet it emergence of new strains of bugs - bacteria, slightly and fasten it around your mouth and fungi, viruses - new mutants, potent scourges for nose. mankind like Covid-19. Don't be misled by the unsubstantiated Finally, let us pay our unbounded gratitude claims about different diets, herbs, condiments, to the doctors and other health professions, the potions, drinks (hot, cold, lukewarm) etc. that brave warriors who are firefighting at the front circulate in social media. Eat normal diet; no lines, in the intensive care units of hospitals, change from your routine. against heavy odds and at great personal risk. Many of them have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Take time off to look at the sky, the beautiful Let us applaud the services of others who keep sunrises, sunsets and the star constellations. the cogs of governance functioning including Enjoy the silence for a while. Listen to spiritual the procurement of essential supplies, istorically, major wars have fostered relationships. profound changes in societies and President Donald Trump is right that “the music. Hear the birds sing in joy. Speak with the manufacturing life-saving equipments, and economies. Today’s China-originating world is paying a big price” for China’s initial, flowers that bloom brighter, watch the gauzy ensuring uninterrupted power, water, and H pandemic has created an acute international weeks-long cover-up of the COVID-19 butterflies. All these nature gifts have suddenly communication lines so vital in fighting this crisis akin to wartime. The world will not be the outbreak in Wuhan city and other parts of Hubei sprung into renewed life, reminding us of the pandemic. same after the pandemic. province. According to a South China Morning injustice we have heaped upon them. It is also The world will not be the same after it time to revive family values and bond together, The incalculable human and economic toll Post report based on Chinese government data, emerges from this state of dissolution, the exacted by the rapid spread of the killer Wuhan doctors began recording one to five spend precious hours with kids, indulge parents parlaya. A lot will depend on whether those, and elders, revive lost contacts with friends, Coronavirus promises to shake up global cases daily from November 17, before infection who survive it, will have learnt the right lessons, geopolitics, including China’s position in the rates spiraled and a raging epidemic unfolded. reach out to the sick and needy. Physical or will go back to their erring ways. The post- distancing can thus be bridged by emotional world. The pandemic’s enduring impacts will However, China waited until January 21 to issue Covid-19 Epoch is going to define a new Yuga, a likely extend from altering previously its first public warning. By then, the spread of proximity. new world order. dependable supply chains to reshaping bilateral the virus had gone beyond its control.

20 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 21 outbreak to spiral out of control, gifting the dangerous pathogen after its own gross world a horrendous pandemic. negligence sparked the pandemic. To many other countries, one key lesson from the pandemic is that, in an To be sure, the Chinese leadership is also Beijing’s proactive attempt to rewrite the facing a credibility problem at home over its history of the pandemic, even as much of the increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, secrecy and obfuscation secretive initial response to the outbreak. Many world grapples with its escalating are antithetical to globalization and international security. Transparency is Chinese are still seething over their leaders’ consequences, highlights its well-oiled initial concealment and mismanagement of the propaganda machine. To justify its handling of essential to make us all safer. crisis. The public anger at home, coupled with the outbreak, it has even released a book, “A the damage to China’s global image, has Battle against Epidemic,” in multiple languages, A study based on sophisticated modeling culture of eating exotic mammals,” constituted a prompted Beijing to launch a public-relations including English, Arabic, Spanish, French and has indicated that if Chinese authorities had Chinese “time bomb” that pointed to blitzkrieg, including churning out unfounded Russian. acted three weeks earlier than they did, the “reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses conspiracy theories. To many other countries, one key lesson number of COVID-19 cases in China could have from animals or laboratories.” More fundamentally, China is seeking to from the pandemic is that, in an increasingly been reduced by 95% and the global spread of Regardless of how the novel coronavirus aggressively rebrand itself as the global leader in interconnected and interdependent world, the disease limited. The virus spread farther and originated in China, the fact is that the CPC combating a virus that spread from its own secrecy and obfuscation are antithetical to wider because the Communist Party of China treated the viral outbreak as a political territory. Its rebranding efforts include counter- globalization and international security. (CPC) cared more about its reputation than the embarrassment rather than a public health pandemic aid to developing countries, a pledge Transparency is essential to make us all safer. people’s suffering. emergency. For the world’s strongest and richest to donate $20 million to the WHO, a claim to China cannot have its cake and eat it too. It must There is no evidence that the new dictatorship, power and control take precedence have fully contained the coronavirus in its fundamentally reform and embrace coronavirus was engineered as a bio-weapon. over everything else, including human lives. worst-affected areas, and disseminating transparency and international norms. But some virus experts believe it may have The result has been a manmade calamity disinformation to obscure its costly initial cover- The pandemic is truly a defining moment accidentally escaped from one of the two Wuhan and an unparalleled global crisis fueling up. that could help reshape the international order. If laboratories studying bat corona viruses. economic turmoil and social disruptions. This, With the help of the CPC’s propaganda it upends the world order as we know it, history According to one study conducted at the in turn, has given rise to a popular tagline on organs, Beijing is trying to fashion a narrative will record China’s role as the principal trigger. South China University of Technology in social media, “China lied and people died.” that China is an example of how to control the Guangzhou and supported by the National Make no mistake: China faces lasting spread of COVID-19. In fact, like the arsonist Brahma Chellaney is the author of nine books, Natural Science Foundation of China, “the killer damage to its image. And the damage could offering to extinguish the fire it started, China is including “Water: Asia’s New Battleground” coronavirus probably originated from a extend to its economic interests. now seeking to help other countries combat a (Georgetown University Press). laboratory in Wuhan.” The study appeared in After the crisis is over, the West’s Research Gate, a professional network for relationship with China is unlikely to go back to scientists and researchers, before being normal. Efforts would likely begin to loosen removed. China’s grip on global supply chains. Moves are KAL AAJ AUR KAL - Anil Nakhasi One Wuhan lab studying corona viruses is already afoot in the U.S. Congress to bring located at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control manufacture of essential medicines and medical EMI and Prevention and the other is at the Wuhan devices back to the United States, which EXPENDITURE Institute of Virology, which the state-run China currently relies on China for 97% of all its STRESS Daily, in a 2018 tweet, called “the largest virus antibiotics. Personal Life... bank in Asia” holding 1,500 different viruses. By accelerating the decoupling of the U.S. Mey Chhu n Significantly, soon after this writer on March 23 economy — and by extension of other Western Cartoon Corner prtchhaany kaanh.. provided a link to that tweet while posting a economies — from the Chinese economy, the B chhus in ever Medicines Generation Gap comment on Twitter, China daily deleted its old pandemic’s geopolitical effects could help ISOLATION! Chatting.... tweet. transform international relations. The my priorities Just months before the COVID-19 pandemic, by removing any doubt that China is outbreak, a biomedical study conducted by four America’s principal challenger and threat, could Chinese presciently warned that a new add momentum to the incremental adjustments coronavirus would emanate from bats, with “an that have been underway in the U.S.-China increased probability that this will occur in economic relationship. Indeed, the entire U.S.- China.” Earlier, Hong Kong-based infectious China relationship could change forever. disease specialists said in a 2007 study that the Once countries ride out the current crisis, presence of a large reservoir of SARS-like there will be a reckoning. After all, China’s “viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the disastrous missteps caused the coronavirus

22 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 23 outbreak to spiral out of control, gifting the dangerous pathogen after its own gross world a horrendous pandemic. negligence sparked the pandemic. To many other countries, one key lesson from the pandemic is that, in an To be sure, the Chinese leadership is also Beijing’s proactive attempt to rewrite the facing a credibility problem at home over its history of the pandemic, even as much of the increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, secrecy and obfuscation secretive initial response to the outbreak. Many world grapples with its escalating are antithetical to globalization and international security. Transparency is Chinese are still seething over their leaders’ consequences, highlights its well-oiled initial concealment and mismanagement of the propaganda machine. To justify its handling of essential to make us all safer. crisis. The public anger at home, coupled with the outbreak, it has even released a book, “A the damage to China’s global image, has Battle against Epidemic,” in multiple languages, A study based on sophisticated modeling culture of eating exotic mammals,” constituted a prompted Beijing to launch a public-relations including English, Arabic, Spanish, French and has indicated that if Chinese authorities had Chinese “time bomb” that pointed to blitzkrieg, including churning out unfounded Russian. acted three weeks earlier than they did, the “reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses conspiracy theories. To many other countries, one key lesson number of COVID-19 cases in China could have from animals or laboratories.” More fundamentally, China is seeking to from the pandemic is that, in an increasingly been reduced by 95% and the global spread of Regardless of how the novel coronavirus aggressively rebrand itself as the global leader in interconnected and interdependent world, the disease limited. The virus spread farther and originated in China, the fact is that the CPC combating a virus that spread from its own secrecy and obfuscation are antithetical to wider because the Communist Party of China treated the viral outbreak as a political territory. Its rebranding efforts include counter- globalization and international security. (CPC) cared more about its reputation than the embarrassment rather than a public health pandemic aid to developing countries, a pledge Transparency is essential to make us all safer. people’s suffering. emergency. For the world’s strongest and richest to donate $20 million to the WHO, a claim to China cannot have its cake and eat it too. It must There is no evidence that the new dictatorship, power and control take precedence have fully contained the coronavirus in its fundamentally reform and embrace coronavirus was engineered as a bio-weapon. over everything else, including human lives. worst-affected areas, and disseminating transparency and international norms. But some virus experts believe it may have The result has been a manmade calamity disinformation to obscure its costly initial cover- The pandemic is truly a defining moment accidentally escaped from one of the two Wuhan and an unparalleled global crisis fueling up. that could help reshape the international order. If laboratories studying bat corona viruses. economic turmoil and social disruptions. This, With the help of the CPC’s propaganda it upends the world order as we know it, history According to one study conducted at the in turn, has given rise to a popular tagline on organs, Beijing is trying to fashion a narrative will record China’s role as the principal trigger. South China University of Technology in social media, “China lied and people died.” that China is an example of how to control the Guangzhou and supported by the National Make no mistake: China faces lasting spread of COVID-19. In fact, like the arsonist Brahma Chellaney is the author of nine books, Natural Science Foundation of China, “the killer damage to its image. And the damage could offering to extinguish the fire it started, China is including “Water: Asia’s New Battleground” coronavirus probably originated from a extend to its economic interests. now seeking to help other countries combat a (Georgetown University Press). laboratory in Wuhan.” The study appeared in After the crisis is over, the West’s Research Gate, a professional network for relationship with China is unlikely to go back to scientists and researchers, before being normal. Efforts would likely begin to loosen removed. China’s grip on global supply chains. Moves are KAL AAJ AUR KAL - Anil Nakhasi One Wuhan lab studying corona viruses is already afoot in the U.S. Congress to bring located at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control manufacture of essential medicines and medical EMI and Prevention and the other is at the Wuhan devices back to the United States, which EXPENDITURE Institute of Virology, which the state-run China currently relies on China for 97% of all its STRESS Daily, in a 2018 tweet, called “the largest virus antibiotics. Personal Life... bank in Asia” holding 1,500 different viruses. By accelerating the decoupling of the U.S. Mey Chhu n Significantly, soon after this writer on March 23 economy — and by extension of other Western Cartoon Corner prtchhaany kaanh.. provided a link to that tweet while posting a economies — from the Chinese economy, the B chhus in ever Medicines Generation Gap comment on Twitter, China daily deleted its old pandemic’s geopolitical effects could help ISOLATION! Chatting.... tweet. transform international relations. The my priorities Just months before the COVID-19 pandemic, by removing any doubt that China is outbreak, a biomedical study conducted by four America’s principal challenger and threat, could Chinese presciently warned that a new add momentum to the incremental adjustments coronavirus would emanate from bats, with “an that have been underway in the U.S.-China increased probability that this will occur in economic relationship. Indeed, the entire U.S.- China.” Earlier, Hong Kong-based infectious China relationship could change forever. disease specialists said in a 2007 study that the Once countries ride out the current crisis, presence of a large reservoir of SARS-like there will be a reckoning. After all, China’s “viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the disastrous missteps caused the coronavirus

22 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 23 fighting their enemies with super hi tech Corona has been a big unifier, we all have to weapons in their arsenal. Hopefully this sinister, agree. How well it has treated everyone with no tiny but common enemy has told them that the bias for country, religion, caste, creed color! - Dr. Anusheel Munshi focus should be somewhere else. Perhaps conveying a message for the humanity This little virus has also given us some to be one, to be united. Earth is a tiny speck in valuable lessons in mannerisms, telling us to universe, countries and cities even tinier and introspect once a while, develop humility and individuals almost microscopic. This tiny speck concern for ourselves and others around us. This of earth in the universe needs to stand as one- should be a message for the Kashmiri Pandit now and forever! In the same vein, is it a big ask community as well. Let us pledge to develop humility and shun arrogance in our approach. for the Kashmiri Pandit community to be united We also need to learn the value of the support and to stand united in future. This is something Corona – The Deadly Virus staff in our homes. We often take them for we have been conspicuously lacking. granted. In many parts of the world, including And therefore, I say with confidence that our country, the gardener, the dish washing Covid-19 has been a great teacher. Shall we all Can it Have Some Great Positives! maid, the weekly vacuum cleaning help and the be good pupils? Only time shall tell…. chauffer are an integral part of life of upper middle class. These are considered a given. And The author is Head, Department of here have been umpteen scares to our and attachments, twitter bytes, and of course the now their absence has made us realize the value Radiation Oncology, Manipal Hospital planet in the past including epidemics, traditional means like television and of self-work and self-discipline. Dwarka, New Delhi Tworld wars and natural calamities. That newspapers. The entire world seems to be an was then. The present day world and the present expert, a PhD on Corona. generation would probably have seen only a So how could this deadly virus have any minor scare, a minor skirmish. Cut to reality. The positive effect at all. Multiple take home past few weeks have seen a near complete global positives, I would say. This teacher, Headmaster shut down. Flights suspended, countries closed, Covid-19 has taught us several valuable lessons. Pranan markets closed, public transport closed. A super First, this is a big shake up and wake up call virus has come and affected 339,182 individuals for the scientific and the medical community. on our planet and caused 14,703 deaths in past 3 We may like to sit high on the citadel of months, threatening to spread its tentacles with scientific achievements, but one tiny bug can

Let us pledge to develop humility and shun arrogance in our approach. We also need to learn the value of the support staff in our homes. We often take them for granted. In many parts Vimarshi Koul of the world, including our country, the gardener, the dish washing maid, the weekly vacuum cleaning help and the chauffer are an integral part of life of upper middle class. each passing hour. I am cancer specialist and bring us down on our bare knees. The challenges treat patients of this dreaded disease every day, for this community are huge. Preventing such for past 25 years. But such is the impact of this episodes in future and quickly inventing deadly virus that even the draconian cancer is vaccines for the present and future bugs are most appearing like a trivial ailment! crucial questions. Television, social media posts and For the governments and bureaucrats of the newsprint articles are abuzz with the havoc world, there are several takeaways. Remaining caused by corona. In this article, I shall not focus transparent about actual figures and having a on what to do to prevent ourselves from this ready action plan for such future strikes are malady. We already have a flood of information mandatory. Countries fight over territory, over on that from the numerous WhatsApp messages ideology, over resources. Nations speak about

24 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 25 fighting their enemies with super hi tech Corona has been a big unifier, we all have to weapons in their arsenal. Hopefully this sinister, agree. How well it has treated everyone with no tiny but common enemy has told them that the bias for country, religion, caste, creed color! - Dr. Anusheel Munshi focus should be somewhere else. Perhaps conveying a message for the humanity This little virus has also given us some to be one, to be united. Earth is a tiny speck in valuable lessons in mannerisms, telling us to universe, countries and cities even tinier and introspect once a while, develop humility and individuals almost microscopic. This tiny speck concern for ourselves and others around us. This of earth in the universe needs to stand as one- should be a message for the Kashmiri Pandit now and forever! In the same vein, is it a big ask community as well. Let us pledge to develop humility and shun arrogance in our approach. for the Kashmiri Pandit community to be united We also need to learn the value of the support and to stand united in future. This is something Corona – The Deadly Virus staff in our homes. We often take them for we have been conspicuously lacking. granted. In many parts of the world, including And therefore, I say with confidence that our country, the gardener, the dish washing Covid-19 has been a great teacher. Shall we all Can it Have Some Great Positives! maid, the weekly vacuum cleaning help and the be good pupils? Only time shall tell…. chauffer are an integral part of life of upper middle class. These are considered a given. And The author is Head, Department of here have been umpteen scares to our and attachments, twitter bytes, and of course the now their absence has made us realize the value Radiation Oncology, Manipal Hospital planet in the past including epidemics, traditional means like television and of self-work and self-discipline. Dwarka, New Delhi Tworld wars and natural calamities. That newspapers. The entire world seems to be an was then. The present day world and the present expert, a PhD on Corona. generation would probably have seen only a So how could this deadly virus have any minor scare, a minor skirmish. Cut to reality. The positive effect at all. Multiple take home past few weeks have seen a near complete global positives, I would say. This teacher, Headmaster shut down. Flights suspended, countries closed, Covid-19 has taught us several valuable lessons. Pranan markets closed, public transport closed. A super First, this is a big shake up and wake up call virus has come and affected 339,182 individuals for the scientific and the medical community. on our planet and caused 14,703 deaths in past 3 We may like to sit high on the citadel of months, threatening to spread its tentacles with scientific achievements, but one tiny bug can

24 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 25 reach out to limit its social damage. The brunt of and relationships that once sustained them may Covid-19 will be borne by the poor, elderly, and prove hard to rebuild. sick. There is no stopping the social recession. - Ravinder Gurtoo The Centers for Disease Control and It’s an inevitable byproduct of public health Prevention has already warned Indians over age recommendations. But there are actions and 60 to “avoid crowds,” cancel all nonessential policies that could ease it. travel and stay home as much as possible. Obviously, we want people to follow the The researchers worldwide have found that public health recommendations about social even before the coronavirus, about a quarter of distancing and quarantining. We need to be older adults fit the definition of socially isolated thinking about what individuals can do, but also — which measures routine social contact — and what we as neighbours and a society can do, to COVID-19 And We 43 percent said they felt lonely. You can be not make it worse than it might otherwise feel for socially isolated without reporting feelings of people. loneliness, and you can be lonely without being socially isolated. But both conditions seem to Just as countless businesses have moved to es, life is very different right now. societal level but for your relationship – you inflict harm on physical and mental health. remote work and tele-conferencing to balance Closings, cancellations and social may have dealt with testing times. “Social isolation has been associated with a social distancing and the need for continued distancing are the new norms. In all of Make no mistake. The rapid Y significantly increased risk of premature collaboration. Sadly, the hardest-hit populations this though, here are some things that should implementation of social distancing is mortality from all causes. The researchers are often the least technologically savvy. So one never be cancelled. Things that should always necessary to flatten the coronavirus curve and reviewed dozens of studies and found a simple way to help may be to act as tech-support remain constant. prevent the current pandemic from worsening. consistent relationship between social isolation for the people in your life. As with so much else Please share with anyone who needs a little But just as the coronavirus fallout threatens to and depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. in the coronavirus pandemic, the response here pick me up, a little reminder and a little sunshine. cause an economic recession, it’s also going to Over thousands of years, the value of social will depend on the level of social solidarity we In a matter of weeks, the global epidemic cause what we might call a “social recession”. A connection has become baked into our nervous feel and the degree to which we’re willing to has transformed relationships. Weddings have collapse in social contact that is particularly system such that the absence of such a protective look out for each other. Social isolation and been postponed, while divorce rates have hard on the populations, most vulnerable to force creates a stress state in the body. loneliness among older, sicker populations isn’t reportedly soared in China as the crisis has isolation and loneliness — older adults and Loneliness causes stress, and long-term or something caused by the coronavirus, but it will eased. Lovers and family members are suffering people with disabilities or pre-existing health chronic stress leads to more frequent elevations be worsened by it. The question is whether the aching separations as borders have closed. conditions. of a key stress hormone. It is also linked to intensity of the problem will force us to see, and Prosaic choices, like whether to send a child on a A tension in the coronavirus response is higher levels of inflammation in the body. This respond, to pain we typically do. play date or whether to meet a potential suitor, that it’s so difficult to get people to accept social in turn damages blood vessels and other tissues, Now let me conclude by visiting some vital have become matters of life and death. distancing that few want to muddle the message increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, issues with regard to Kashmiri Pandit The internet has emerged as a lifeline to with worries about social isolation. But if the joint disease, depression, obesity, and premature community. After witnessing the pain of exodus, millions of people stuck indoors, enabling them ultimate concern is the health and well-being of death as happened to the Kashmiri Pandit our huge populations are under stress and to go on virtual yoga dates and other the most vulnerable, then both dangers need to community after exodus in 1990. anxiety which later gave birth to hypertension, entertainment sites. You need to avoid all non- be addressed. If stress is the pathway by which loneliness diabetes and dementia like problems and are essential travel and stay at home unless you meet We’re now officially in pandemic damages health, then even beyond its direct now very common and widespread in our races. one of a few criteria. These include shopping for emergencies, and we’ve also entered a new dangers, coronavirus is a dual threat. It’s COVID-19 is further going to add to these food or medication, travelling to work as a key period of social pain. There’s going to be a level simultaneously terrifying and isolating. No one problems. KP families are scattered, children are worker or your once-daily form of exercise. Lots of social suffering related to isolation and the quite knows how the isolation enforced by an spread throughout the globe and there is hardly of people are now working from home full-time cost of social distancing that very few people are epidemic disease will affect those at the highest anyone around to look after. or looking after their children due to school discussing yet. risk, but even those who avoid the worst Worries will keep multiplying due to large closures - meaning we are all spending more Governments and the administration are, consequences will see their quality of life distances between the families, which will time behind closed doors. Whether that is a even now debating the best tools to deploy in degrade. Local clubs, religious services, and finally result in increasing the issues of this couple who are both working from home, a fighting the coronavirus’s economic effects. time with family bring social structure and joy to already extinct community. If we are fortunate, whole family with children who need to be India being the second largest populations in the many of our lives, but they are particularly let’s built a longer table than a taller fence. The entertained or housemates who are finding world has much to lose. India is deep in a debate important touch points for those who don’t best antidote I know for worry is work. The best living difficult, it is not yet known how long over payroll tax cuts, industry bailouts etc, but work or can’t go out on their own, due to age or cure for weariness is the challenge of helping these measures may last. While it is not yet there are fewer policy tools to fight a social health conditions. If older and sick people have someone who is even more tired. He or she who known, divorce lawyers have already forecast a recession. Just as it’s incumbent on those of us to refrain from these activities for months on serves almost always benefits more than he or spike in splits later this year due to self-isolation. least affected by coronavirus to take precautions end, their lives will be worse, and the rhythms she who is served. The coronavirus is unprecedented, not only on a to limit its spread, it’s also important that we

26 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 27 reach out to limit its social damage. The brunt of and relationships that once sustained them may Covid-19 will be borne by the poor, elderly, and prove hard to rebuild. sick. There is no stopping the social recession. - Ravinder Gurtoo The Centers for Disease Control and It’s an inevitable byproduct of public health Prevention has already warned Indians over age recommendations. But there are actions and 60 to “avoid crowds,” cancel all nonessential policies that could ease it. travel and stay home as much as possible. Obviously, we want people to follow the The researchers worldwide have found that public health recommendations about social even before the coronavirus, about a quarter of distancing and quarantining. We need to be older adults fit the definition of socially isolated thinking about what individuals can do, but also — which measures routine social contact — and what we as neighbours and a society can do, to COVID-19 And We 43 percent said they felt lonely. You can be not make it worse than it might otherwise feel for socially isolated without reporting feelings of people. loneliness, and you can be lonely without being socially isolated. But both conditions seem to Just as countless businesses have moved to es, life is very different right now. societal level but for your relationship – you inflict harm on physical and mental health. remote work and tele-conferencing to balance Closings, cancellations and social may have dealt with testing times. “Social isolation has been associated with a social distancing and the need for continued distancing are the new norms. In all of Make no mistake. The rapid Y significantly increased risk of premature collaboration. Sadly, the hardest-hit populations this though, here are some things that should implementation of social distancing is mortality from all causes. The researchers are often the least technologically savvy. So one never be cancelled. Things that should always necessary to flatten the coronavirus curve and reviewed dozens of studies and found a simple way to help may be to act as tech-support remain constant. prevent the current pandemic from worsening. consistent relationship between social isolation for the people in your life. As with so much else Please share with anyone who needs a little But just as the coronavirus fallout threatens to and depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. in the coronavirus pandemic, the response here pick me up, a little reminder and a little sunshine. cause an economic recession, it’s also going to Over thousands of years, the value of social will depend on the level of social solidarity we In a matter of weeks, the global epidemic cause what we might call a “social recession”. A connection has become baked into our nervous feel and the degree to which we’re willing to has transformed relationships. Weddings have collapse in social contact that is particularly system such that the absence of such a protective look out for each other. Social isolation and been postponed, while divorce rates have hard on the populations, most vulnerable to force creates a stress state in the body. loneliness among older, sicker populations isn’t reportedly soared in China as the crisis has isolation and loneliness — older adults and Loneliness causes stress, and long-term or something caused by the coronavirus, but it will eased. Lovers and family members are suffering people with disabilities or pre-existing health chronic stress leads to more frequent elevations be worsened by it. The question is whether the aching separations as borders have closed. conditions. of a key stress hormone. It is also linked to intensity of the problem will force us to see, and Prosaic choices, like whether to send a child on a A tension in the coronavirus response is higher levels of inflammation in the body. This respond, to pain we typically do. play date or whether to meet a potential suitor, that it’s so difficult to get people to accept social in turn damages blood vessels and other tissues, Now let me conclude by visiting some vital have become matters of life and death. distancing that few want to muddle the message increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, issues with regard to Kashmiri Pandit The internet has emerged as a lifeline to with worries about social isolation. But if the joint disease, depression, obesity, and premature community. After witnessing the pain of exodus, millions of people stuck indoors, enabling them ultimate concern is the health and well-being of death as happened to the Kashmiri Pandit our huge populations are under stress and to go on virtual yoga dates and other the most vulnerable, then both dangers need to community after exodus in 1990. anxiety which later gave birth to hypertension, entertainment sites. You need to avoid all non- be addressed. If stress is the pathway by which loneliness diabetes and dementia like problems and are essential travel and stay at home unless you meet We’re now officially in pandemic damages health, then even beyond its direct now very common and widespread in our races. one of a few criteria. These include shopping for emergencies, and we’ve also entered a new dangers, coronavirus is a dual threat. It’s COVID-19 is further going to add to these food or medication, travelling to work as a key period of social pain. There’s going to be a level simultaneously terrifying and isolating. No one problems. KP families are scattered, children are worker or your once-daily form of exercise. Lots of social suffering related to isolation and the quite knows how the isolation enforced by an spread throughout the globe and there is hardly of people are now working from home full-time cost of social distancing that very few people are epidemic disease will affect those at the highest anyone around to look after. or looking after their children due to school discussing yet. risk, but even those who avoid the worst Worries will keep multiplying due to large closures - meaning we are all spending more Governments and the administration are, consequences will see their quality of life distances between the families, which will time behind closed doors. Whether that is a even now debating the best tools to deploy in degrade. Local clubs, religious services, and finally result in increasing the issues of this couple who are both working from home, a fighting the coronavirus’s economic effects. time with family bring social structure and joy to already extinct community. If we are fortunate, whole family with children who need to be India being the second largest populations in the many of our lives, but they are particularly let’s built a longer table than a taller fence. The entertained or housemates who are finding world has much to lose. India is deep in a debate important touch points for those who don’t best antidote I know for worry is work. The best living difficult, it is not yet known how long over payroll tax cuts, industry bailouts etc, but work or can’t go out on their own, due to age or cure for weariness is the challenge of helping these measures may last. While it is not yet there are fewer policy tools to fight a social health conditions. If older and sick people have someone who is even more tired. He or she who known, divorce lawyers have already forecast a recession. Just as it’s incumbent on those of us to refrain from these activities for months on serves almost always benefits more than he or spike in splits later this year due to self-isolation. least affected by coronavirus to take precautions end, their lives will be worse, and the rhythms she who is served. The coronavirus is unprecedented, not only on a to limit its spread, it’s also important that we

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have no hesitation in admitting that I did not know the word lockdown till I Iheard it from the mouth of the Prime Minister on March 24, in his address to the not say anything pleasing to them; only offered a and do some deep thinking, which helped him to nation. He worked hard to make the people wry smile. When he and I met the morning after formulate his celebrated theories. of the country understand what it means the event, I asked him why he did not respond I do realize that these self-imposed and what observing it entailed for each one cheerily to his friends for arranging a nice party seclusions are different from the present of them. After listening to his speech, I just to celebrate his retirement. That is why, was his lockdown. Firstly, they were consciously willed wondered why I had not encountered this quick response. Retirement is no occasion for by people to do something that needed a word before, though I do read quite a bit. celebration. It renders a person useless. Since I peaceful environment and concentrated effort. Perhaps because it is not a ‘good’ word, that did not want to enter into a fruitless debate with Secondly, there was no coercion involved in is, if one could think of words being good him, I quietly walked towards my home. them. People could walk out from their chosen or bad. While walking back to my home, I spots any time they wished. Thirdly, this If lockdown means that people are Perhaps because of this, the Prime Minister pondered over his remark of retirement making a seclusion did not come with fears and anxieties forced to stay in their homes or houses for clarified time and again that the government had person useless. I remembered that he is not the of the kind that are associated with the present whatever reason, it obviously is against their been compelled to take the draconian measure only person who feels like that. Scores of people lockdown. will, for who would like to stay forcibly inside of disallowing us from leaving our homes, identify their lives with their jobs. They think I accept that willy-nilly all of us have to his/her home and be happy about it. Aristotle because the country is in the grip of a malignant that without a job, a person’s life has no suffer this lockdown. Therefore, more reason rightly said it ages ago that we are social animals, virus, which loves to spread its reach as fast as it meaning. My grandfather’s friend suffered a for us to make a virtue of this necessity. Staying and we delight in gregariousness. So any curbs can. As my friend put it succinctly: steep decline in his health soon after his at home is not all that dreadful; it does provide on our desire to socialize are unwelcome. corona virus revels in proliferation. retirement. Within a year he was dead. My some clear advantages. For those who are Lockdown is truly unnatural! So we are all locked up, even though our father’s friend lost his cheerful mien and fought involved in any kind of serious business, it is an doors are not actually locked. We are to stay everybody in his family. He became overly opportunity to try something new that can be indoors and make sure that the virus is not aggressive, because he felt that he had turned truly innovative. For those who could not get the Lockdowns may be allowed to make its way into our homes and into a non-entity. opportunity of enjoying the joys of living unnatural, but they can be hearts. Though a vast number of people have The lockdown is no less than a calamity for together, it is a godsend; it can open their eyes to welcomed the move, some, including my close converted into opportunities my friend. Had he been willing to hear me, I aspects of life that they could not have imagined neighbour, are really unhappy about it. Their could have given him examples of many people in their busy lives. And for those who love that do not come ordinarily complaint is: what do we do inside our homes, who realized their true potential by locking reading and writing, this could be no less than a to hundreds and thousands especially in ones that are small and thickly themselves in a secluded place, by a self- bonanza. of people amongst us. We do populated? imposed lockdown. The great Michel Lockdowns may be unnatural, but they can My neighbour is quite a character. When Montaigne gave up his job in the city to retire to a be converted into opportunities that do not come not need to dismiss he retired from active service last year, he secluded place in the country, where he wrote his ordinarily to hundreds and thousands of people lockdowns as unwanted looked sad and morose. His colleagues and famous essays. In more recent times, Carl Jung amongst us. We do not need to dismiss friends arranged a party in his honour for what built a house far away from the city to stay alone lockdowns as unwanted scourge. scourge. they called his “smooth retirement,” but he did

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28 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 29 Mishandling of State politics by Sheikh Abdullah in the State combined by his - Dr. Upinder K. Zutshi ambition and Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India laid the basis within which secessionist movement in the State.

to be adopted by the Government of India vis-à- British and Eurasian officials this included a vis the State of Jammu & Kashmir and its large contingent of men from Punjab. people. It envisaged to use and put the fact of Subsequent to the introduction of the above Muslim majority against the Dogra rulers and to stated changes and the introduction of modern Our Return to Valley politicize it. Soon after the third Dogra ruler, education by Christian Missionary School and Maharaja Pratap Singh, took over Govt of India the Government schools, there developed along unilaterally appointed a British Resident in the with the birth of religious reform movements State. And in this game British where supported amongst Pandits and Sunni Muslims, two socio- by Maharaja’s own brother, Raja Amar Singh, political movements. One strived for the fool- who happened to be none other than the father of proof reservation of the State subjects in the state last Dogra ruler, Maharaja Hari Singh and services. It had two strands- one in Kashmir and grandfather of present Congress leader Dr. other from Jammu. In Kashmir its social base Karan Singh. From 1885 to 1931 there ensued a was primarily in the Karkun Pandit caste-class struggle between the successive representatives group. The movement came to its conclusion of the British Government (the Residents) and with the enactment of State subject definition in the two Maharajas-Pratap Singh (1885-1925) 1927. The other was the Muslim communal and Hari Singh (1925-1931). This struggle movement for their proportional representation assumed two major forms, first to coax the in the state services. It had been in operation Muslim majority into their hegemony and, from 1907 onwards and came into headlong secondly, to exercise hegemony over collusion with the State Government when an administration. This had obviously to be done by agitation was launched by a group of young the British within the limitations set by the educated Muslims led by a State school teacher, parameters, both objective and subjective, Shiekh Abdullah for the purpose in the within and outside the State. The British beginning of 1931. As a consequence of the Government could not ignore the policy that it agitation the upsurge took place. The leaders of had adopted since 1858, after the Indian revolt of the agitation and the important Muslim elements 1857, of sustaining and conciliating the Native from the dominant classes in the Kashmiri Indian Princes. They had also to contend with society which were at the back of it had the the increasing importance of Indian public probable support from the Britishers for the opinion after the emergence of the India reason that the new Maharaja, Hari Singh, was National Congress in 1885. being refractory. The upsurge both reflected and It is a misnomer to call Dogra rulers and promoted political awareness in the wider t seems to be a common place thing for many of autocratic Muslim rulers and consequent particularly the third one, Pratap Singh, to have sections of the Kashmiri society and was of us that our exodus from Kashmir in 1990 discrimination against us. This time fellow been independent. Dogra’s were not followed by many significant developments Ihas not been the first one and that we shall go citizens have turned against us. That makes it a independent but ruled within what in history is including the grant of freedom of press and back to the Valley as we have done earlier. Or qualitative different thing and phenomenon. known as British Paramountcy. The platform by the Maharaja’s government. This rather we shall be in a position to go back. My It all started in 1885 after the demise of undermining of the authority of Pratap Singh in created room for further political activity in reading of the history of Kashmir and second Dogra ruler- Maharaja Ranbir Singh. particular had been dictated by Russian advance future. All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim particularly the research into as to what led to the The basis for same had already been laid down in the Northern Frontiers of Indian Sub- Conference under the leadership of the leader of 1931 Muslim upsurge in Kashmir has made it by the British Secretary of State, the Earl of continent. This led to reorienting the entire state the agitation in 1931- Sheikh Mohammad obvious that things are of a different nature and Kimberley, in his communication to British structure on modern lines. This entailed in Abdullah was formed in 1932. This was character this time. Earlier it must have Government of India on 23rd May, 1884. The particular the Land Settlement and importing of transformed into National Conference in 1939. happened as a result of missionary zeal on behalf communiqué clearly spelt out a policy that had British lent officers to the State. Apart from After Indian independence and departure from

30 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 31 Mishandling of State politics by Sheikh Abdullah in the State combined by his - Dr. Upinder K. Zutshi ambition and Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India laid the basis within which secessionist movement in the State.

30 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 31 the sabotage of the agitation. T h e m u s l i m communal movement Health Special - Dr. M K Mam which we have referred to above was preceded by a few years by what is known in the social sciences as a revivalist m o v e m e n t l e d b y Maulvi Rasool Shah, an Bone Health ancestor of present day Mirwaiz- Omar Farooq. Diet and Other Factors This started the process of driving away muslim (Incontinuation with “Bone health and physical activity” discussed in the last issue) m a s s e s f r o m l o c a l variant of Islam that was attached to “Rishis” and “Asthaans”. This was f o l l o w e d b y India of the British there took place one establishment of Ahl-I-Hadidh and important development and that is the accession subsequently Jamait-I-Islami in 1941-the leader of the State to Indian Union and the takeover of of which happens to be present day Sayed, Ali Prime Ministership of the State by Sheikh Shah Jeelani. Their agenda is to re-orient the Abdullah. The government under Sheikh Kashmiri society and politics on puritanical introduced a landmark transformation in the Islamic lines and introduce what is known by State, i.e., the Land Reforms. This affected the them to be Nizam-E-Mustafa and State’s Jagirdar’s and absentee landlords- the Chakdar’s accession to Pakistan. This and mishandling of in particular. This was a non-communal act but State politics by Sheikh Abdullah in the State was interpreted by some of the affected parties to combined by his ambition and Nehru as the first have been done specifically to deprive “Hindus” Prime Minister of India laid the basis within of their lands. That is why a grudge is still being which secessionist movement in the State was nursed against it by some people. born. What has been stated in the preceding Simultaneously with the spread of mass pages set the stage for the forced exodus of education and virtual declaration of “Muslims” Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. It seems to us to be backward class and indiscriminate that spread of Islamic fundamentalism, to which reservation for them in the government jobs led we have referred to above, Muslim communal Calcium rich diet is essential. Calcium is the most important mineral required for normal growth and to deprivation of Karkun Kashmir Pandits of middle class job politics, coupled with development of the bones. Adequate calcium intake is critical to achieving optimal peak bone mass. their livelihood. They were forced to migrate to Pakistan’s non-acceptance of Kashmir’s other parts of India. The ones who still continued accession to India and continued support to to live in Kashmir were a frustrated lot and did terrorists seems to make it difficult, if not alance diet is very essential for overall for a sound bone health. Malnutrition and under- not know as to what to do in the absence of impossible, for us to return to the Valley in the health of the body. A diet rich in calcium, nutrition, even though things have improved, is industrialization in the State. The successive near future. I have given, what appears to be a Bvitamins especially D, C, K, proteins, still a problem especially in children in governments in the State were indifferent to their fair assessment, the stated intentions of the magnesium etc. is important for the growth and developing countries in spite of many programs plight. This to my mind was the reason as to why present N. D. A. government led by B. J. P. at the development of the bones. Bone healthy diet is started by the governments and other agencies. and how the agitation launched in 1967 on the Centre and the assertion of different Kashmiri certainly very important for maintaining a sound Malnutrition does affect overall health of the issue of conversion of a Kashmiri Pandit girl and Pandits outfits notwithstanding. Maybe destiny bone health, however it has to go side by side people- children and that includes bone health her marriage to a muslim superior acquired a has something else in store for us-our with other very important thing i.e. regular also. We somehow need to tackle it proactively momentous form which it did but was crushed metamorphosis from descendants of Kashyap physical activity especially weight bearing with the active involvement of the local society. and proved to be of no result. Congress Rishi into worthy sons and daughters of Bharat exercises. As a matter of fact, a bone healthy diet Calcium rich diet is essential. Calcium is Government in New Delhi also were a party to Mata. together with regular physical activity is must the most important mineral required for normal

32 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 33 the sabotage of the agitation. T h e m u s l i m communal movement Health Special - Dr. M K Mam which we have referred to above was preceded by a few years by what is known in the social sciences as a revivalist m o v e m e n t l e d b y Maulvi Rasool Shah, an Bone Health ancestor of present day Mirwaiz- Omar Farooq. Diet and Other Factors This started the process of driving away muslim (Incontinuation with “Bone health and physical activity” discussed in the last issue) m a s s e s f r o m l o c a l variant of Islam that was attached to “Rishis” and “Asthaans”. This was f o l l o w e d b y India of the British there took place one establishment of Ahl-I-Hadidh and important development and that is the accession subsequently Jamait-I-Islami in 1941-the leader of the State to Indian Union and the takeover of of which happens to be present day Sayed, Ali Prime Ministership of the State by Sheikh Shah Jeelani. Their agenda is to re-orient the Abdullah. The government under Sheikh Kashmiri society and politics on puritanical introduced a landmark transformation in the Islamic lines and introduce what is known by State, i.e., the Land Reforms. This affected the them to be Nizam-E-Mustafa and State’s Jagirdar’s and absentee landlords- the Chakdar’s accession to Pakistan. This and mishandling of in particular. This was a non-communal act but State politics by Sheikh Abdullah in the State was interpreted by some of the affected parties to combined by his ambition and Nehru as the first have been done specifically to deprive “Hindus” Prime Minister of India laid the basis within of their lands. That is why a grudge is still being which secessionist movement in the State was nursed against it by some people. born. What has been stated in the preceding Simultaneously with the spread of mass pages set the stage for the forced exodus of education and virtual declaration of “Muslims” Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. It seems to us to be backward class and indiscriminate that spread of Islamic fundamentalism, to which reservation for them in the government jobs led we have referred to above, Muslim communal Calcium rich diet is essential. Calcium is the most important mineral required for normal growth and to deprivation of Karkun Kashmir Pandits of middle class job politics, coupled with development of the bones. Adequate calcium intake is critical to achieving optimal peak bone mass. their livelihood. They were forced to migrate to Pakistan’s non-acceptance of Kashmir’s other parts of India. The ones who still continued accession to India and continued support to to live in Kashmir were a frustrated lot and did terrorists seems to make it difficult, if not alance diet is very essential for overall for a sound bone health. Malnutrition and under- not know as to what to do in the absence of impossible, for us to return to the Valley in the health of the body. A diet rich in calcium, nutrition, even though things have improved, is industrialization in the State. The successive near future. I have given, what appears to be a Bvitamins especially D, C, K, proteins, still a problem especially in children in governments in the State were indifferent to their fair assessment, the stated intentions of the magnesium etc. is important for the growth and developing countries in spite of many programs plight. This to my mind was the reason as to why present N. D. A. government led by B. J. P. at the development of the bones. Bone healthy diet is started by the governments and other agencies. and how the agitation launched in 1967 on the Centre and the assertion of different Kashmiri certainly very important for maintaining a sound Malnutrition does affect overall health of the issue of conversion of a Kashmiri Pandit girl and Pandits outfits notwithstanding. Maybe destiny bone health, however it has to go side by side people- children and that includes bone health her marriage to a muslim superior acquired a has something else in store for us-our with other very important thing i.e. regular also. We somehow need to tackle it proactively momentous form which it did but was crushed metamorphosis from descendants of Kashyap physical activity especially weight bearing with the active involvement of the local society. and proved to be of no result. Congress Rishi into worthy sons and daughters of Bharat exercises. As a matter of fact, a bone healthy diet Calcium rich diet is essential. Calcium is Government in New Delhi also were a party to Mata. together with regular physical activity is must the most important mineral required for normal

32 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 33 and B12, as they do help in maintaining optimal bone health. It has been reported that smokers have There are also certain things like smoking, alcohol etc. that are not good for the health of the almost double the risk of osteoporosis bones. Smoking we all know is detrimental to SAY NO TO SAY YES TO overall health of a person, so it is to the bones as and hip fractures as compared to well. Tobacco smoking and use of tobacco products affects bones very badly. It has a nonsmokers. As such smoking has to be negative influence on bone mineral density and stopped at all cost in order to maintain a has rightly been labeled as ‘bone terrorist number one’. It damages bone cells and reduces good bone health. blood flow to bone. It also decreases the production of hormones that are good for bones Alcohol is harmful for the bones. It like estrogen in women and testosterone in men, damages bone cells directly and inhibits although the exact mechanism is not known. It has been reported that smokers have almost calcium absorption. SMOKING ALCOHOL HEALTHY EATING REGULAR EXERCISE double the risk of osteoporosis and hip fractures as compared to nonsmokers. As such smoking growth and development of the bones. Adequate routine calcium supplementation as such should has to be stopped at all cost in order to maintain a adversely affect bone health, so we have to calcium intake is critical to achieving optimal not be recommended. good bone health. address to the problem accordingly. peak bone mass. Men aged 50-70 years should Vitamin D is important for calcium Alcohol is harmful for the bones. It Low Body weight is associated with low consume 1000 mg per day of calcium, the absorption and mineralization of bone. Vitamin damages bone cells directly and inhibits calcium bone mass. Studies have shown a close women aged 51 and older, and men aged 71 and D deficiency is characterized by inadequate absorption. It also damages the liver – the organ connection between osteoporosis and low body older should consume 1200 mg per day. Intakes mineralization. An intake of 800 to 1000 where activation of vitamin D occurs. Again weight. Nowadays as we all see, there is a in excess of 1200 to 1500 mg per day may not international units of vitamin D per day for poor nutrition which is usually associated with general trend in people especially in teenagers - have much of benefit, it may increase the risk of adults is recommended. Exposure to sun light chronic alcoholism, further adds up to the more so in females to be extra slim. This as it is, developing kidney stones and cardiovascular provides vitamin D by way of skin, that is why problem. Chronic alcohol abuse certainly is not good for bone health, yes it is not good for problems. Children and young people certainly vitamin D is also called sunshine vitamin. increases the risk of osteoporosis, osteoporotic bones. A low body weight and low muscle mass need more calcium than adults as bone is However, because of the life style changes of fractures and the complications there of. So result in less stimulation of the bones and hence developing and growing. The demands of staying indoors most of the time, most of us are simply, say no to alcohol. lower bone mass. On the contrary, obesity is also calcium also increase during pregnancy and not able to make use of this free source of Soda and Colas have to be avoided as they not good for overall health of a person and that lactation. Milk and dairy products like yogurt, vitamin D. Again there are some factors which contain lot of caffeine and phosphoric acid include bones also. Obesity is associated with cheese etc. are rich in calcium and high in affect the vitamin D formation in skin like which drain calcium from bones and thus increased fracture risk. As such, it is important calcium absorption, thus are useful foods for atmospheric pollution, clothing, dark colour of decrease bone mineral density. that we have an optimal body weight. prevention of osteoporosis and maintaining the skin, winter season, old age, use of sun screens, Excess intake of coffee is again not good Having discussed, what all can be done to bone health. In addition green leafy vegetables medications - anti TB, epilepsy etc. and diseases for bones as the caffeine may induce loss of bone improve and maintain bone health, we have to like broccoli, turnip greens, mustard greens, of liver, kidney, irritable bowel syndrome etc. by increasing calcium excretion in urine and keep in mind that there are some factors like dried figs and nuts like almonds also provide Also there is fear of skin cancer caused by over decreasing calcium absorption. Studies have genetics and heredity, upon which we do not calcium. Somehow or other the children and the exposure to sun. With the result we see a shown that high coffee consumption is have much of control. Genetics does play an teenagers of present times are averse to widespread deficiency of vitamin D and as such associated with a small reduction in bone important role in the development of peak bone consuming milk and milk products, and one of people need to take the vitamin D density especially in people with inadequate mass and it has been reported that about 70% of the reasons for that is the misconception that supplementation. calcium intake. Do consume and enjoy your an individual’s peak bone mass is influenced by milk makes you fat. Again their preference for Vitamin C is also essential for bone health. coffee but it has to be in moderation, and with genetics. Good thing is that, lot of research is all junk food and aversion to taking fresh green It helps in maturation of the protein in bones i.e. adequate calcium and vitamin D intake. In fact, going on and there has been some progress in vegetables and fruits, which again are important collagen, which forms a scaffold to provide it may be good to have a glass of milk for each identifying the genes responsible for peak bone sources of calcium and other nutrients, results in strength and structure of the bone. Vitamin C cup of coffee to restore calcium balance. mass, however lot more has to be done to know a diet that is inadequate in calcium, so they have also stimulates bone forming cells-osteoblasts. Certain chronic medical problems like the specific gene responsible for peak bone mass to be supplemented. We should encourage Studies have shown a connection between rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, irritable bowel and osteoporosis. (Concluded) people especially children and adolescents to vitamin C and bone mass. syndrome, kidney, liver diseases etc. and certain consume more milk, fresh green vegetables and The author is former Vice Principal, In addition we also need proteins, medications like cortisone- steroids, anti- Prof. & Head of Orthopedics, CMC, Ludhiana fruits that are important sources of calcium and phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin K, vitamin A epileptics, anticoagulants, anti-cancer drugs etc. & Past President North Zone Orthopedics Association

34 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 35 and B12, as they do help in maintaining optimal bone health. It has been reported that smokers have There are also certain things like smoking, alcohol etc. that are not good for the health of the almost double the risk of osteoporosis bones. Smoking we all know is detrimental to SAY NO TO SAY YES TO overall health of a person, so it is to the bones as and hip fractures as compared to well. Tobacco smoking and use of tobacco products affects bones very badly. It has a nonsmokers. As such smoking has to be negative influence on bone mineral density and stopped at all cost in order to maintain a has rightly been labeled as ‘bone terrorist number one’. It damages bone cells and reduces good bone health. blood flow to bone. It also decreases the production of hormones that are good for bones Alcohol is harmful for the bones. It like estrogen in women and testosterone in men, damages bone cells directly and inhibits although the exact mechanism is not known. It has been reported that smokers have almost calcium absorption. SMOKING ALCOHOL HEALTHY EATING REGULAR EXERCISE double the risk of osteoporosis and hip fractures as compared to nonsmokers. As such smoking growth and development of the bones. Adequate routine calcium supplementation as such should has to be stopped at all cost in order to maintain a adversely affect bone health, so we have to calcium intake is critical to achieving optimal not be recommended. good bone health. address to the problem accordingly. peak bone mass. Men aged 50-70 years should Vitamin D is important for calcium Alcohol is harmful for the bones. It Low Body weight is associated with low consume 1000 mg per day of calcium, the absorption and mineralization of bone. Vitamin damages bone cells directly and inhibits calcium bone mass. Studies have shown a close women aged 51 and older, and men aged 71 and D deficiency is characterized by inadequate absorption. It also damages the liver – the organ connection between osteoporosis and low body older should consume 1200 mg per day. Intakes mineralization. An intake of 800 to 1000 where activation of vitamin D occurs. Again weight. Nowadays as we all see, there is a in excess of 1200 to 1500 mg per day may not international units of vitamin D per day for poor nutrition which is usually associated with general trend in people especially in teenagers - have much of benefit, it may increase the risk of adults is recommended. Exposure to sun light chronic alcoholism, further adds up to the more so in females to be extra slim. This as it is, developing kidney stones and cardiovascular provides vitamin D by way of skin, that is why problem. Chronic alcohol abuse certainly is not good for bone health, yes it is not good for problems. Children and young people certainly vitamin D is also called sunshine vitamin. increases the risk of osteoporosis, osteoporotic bones. A low body weight and low muscle mass need more calcium than adults as bone is However, because of the life style changes of fractures and the complications there of. So result in less stimulation of the bones and hence developing and growing. The demands of staying indoors most of the time, most of us are simply, say no to alcohol. lower bone mass. On the contrary, obesity is also calcium also increase during pregnancy and not able to make use of this free source of Soda and Colas have to be avoided as they not good for overall health of a person and that lactation. Milk and dairy products like yogurt, vitamin D. Again there are some factors which contain lot of caffeine and phosphoric acid include bones also. Obesity is associated with cheese etc. are rich in calcium and high in affect the vitamin D formation in skin like which drain calcium from bones and thus increased fracture risk. As such, it is important calcium absorption, thus are useful foods for atmospheric pollution, clothing, dark colour of decrease bone mineral density. that we have an optimal body weight. prevention of osteoporosis and maintaining the skin, winter season, old age, use of sun screens, Excess intake of coffee is again not good Having discussed, what all can be done to bone health. In addition green leafy vegetables medications - anti TB, epilepsy etc. and diseases for bones as the caffeine may induce loss of bone improve and maintain bone health, we have to like broccoli, turnip greens, mustard greens, of liver, kidney, irritable bowel syndrome etc. by increasing calcium excretion in urine and keep in mind that there are some factors like dried figs and nuts like almonds also provide Also there is fear of skin cancer caused by over decreasing calcium absorption. Studies have genetics and heredity, upon which we do not calcium. Somehow or other the children and the exposure to sun. With the result we see a shown that high coffee consumption is have much of control. Genetics does play an teenagers of present times are averse to widespread deficiency of vitamin D and as such associated with a small reduction in bone important role in the development of peak bone consuming milk and milk products, and one of people need to take the vitamin D density especially in people with inadequate mass and it has been reported that about 70% of the reasons for that is the misconception that supplementation. calcium intake. Do consume and enjoy your an individual’s peak bone mass is influenced by milk makes you fat. Again their preference for Vitamin C is also essential for bone health. coffee but it has to be in moderation, and with genetics. Good thing is that, lot of research is all junk food and aversion to taking fresh green It helps in maturation of the protein in bones i.e. adequate calcium and vitamin D intake. In fact, going on and there has been some progress in vegetables and fruits, which again are important collagen, which forms a scaffold to provide it may be good to have a glass of milk for each identifying the genes responsible for peak bone sources of calcium and other nutrients, results in strength and structure of the bone. Vitamin C cup of coffee to restore calcium balance. mass, however lot more has to be done to know a diet that is inadequate in calcium, so they have also stimulates bone forming cells-osteoblasts. Certain chronic medical problems like the specific gene responsible for peak bone mass to be supplemented. We should encourage Studies have shown a connection between rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, irritable bowel and osteoporosis. (Concluded) people especially children and adolescents to vitamin C and bone mass. syndrome, kidney, liver diseases etc. and certain consume more milk, fresh green vegetables and The author is former Vice Principal, In addition we also need proteins, medications like cortisone- steroids, anti- Prof. & Head of Orthopedics, CMC, Ludhiana fruits that are important sources of calcium and phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin K, vitamin A epileptics, anticoagulants, anti-cancer drugs etc. & Past President North Zone Orthopedics Association

34 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 35 Short Story - Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat

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Vyeth is your identity. Your forefathers have been staying on the bank of river Vyeth since ages. You can never be separated from Vyeth. You simply cannot exist without Vyeth.

ince morning Roshan was remorseful and informing all relations and friends about the restless. For the whole day he had not change of address. It would take months Smoved out of his bed-room. The bedding together, that too in a strange city with strange spread on the previous night was carelessly people with no acquaintances around. This has allowed to adorn the floor for the whole day, He been his fate for the last nine years and the neither shaved off his beard nor took a bath as present one was his fifth house in this city. He laziness had overtaken him completely. He had become a rolling stone, a nomad, moving would simply turn sides on his bed. He would from one place to another. Roshan and blurted out, 'You deserve to be left climate. He used to enjoy the daily chores of the neither sit on his bed nor lie down upon it. He He felt as if his existence was threatened. alone... Do whatever you want 'Then she left the life of people staying in the boats near the Ghat. rested his head on the pillow, spread his legs and All sorts of bad and negative ideas started room with a Jerk and tossed the door behind her. He was witness to several delightful scenes. was gazing at the ceiling of the room. Tosha pouring into his mind. His restlessness Roshan sat unmoved. Tosha's anger did not deter Smoking of a hookah (hubble-bubble) by Sultan came and sat near him. She touched his head continued to grow. Suddenly he stood up and him. He had gone through similar routines Joo on one end of his boat, daily quarrels of Saja with her hand and started consoling him, 'Why eagerly started looking for a cigarette. He several times. Since the day they had lost their Maasi and Zaina Ded, the love scenes of should you be sad? Do you think we shall not get opened the almirah, tossed its panes, searched home, such incidents had become a diurnal Tasleema and Ghulam, the boating of tourists in another rented accommodation? After all, it is a his pockets, but could not find a cigarette. feature. Roshan once again picked up the shikaras and the naked children of boatmen big city. If we don't get it, we shall shift to the Actually he had not moved out of his room morning newspaper in his hands and started bathing and swimming across the Vyeth. migrant camps like most of our kinsmen. So why today, and thus had not been to the market to buy looking for the news which said that an Roshan had innumerable memories related be remorseful and sad? his daily stock. Seeing him restless and unidentified body of a young man was flushed to Vyeth right from his childhood to youth. He Roshan did not reply. The very idea of impatient, Tosha too got worried. She said, "Hell out from the Vyeth (River Jhelum) near Sathu. suddenly remembered Hamidullah, the teacher, changing the house would put him off. Since the with these cigarettes! These have taken a toll on The dead body was decomposed beyond who used to teach him during his late school day his landlord had ordered him to vacate the you. Your appetite has gone; your eyes have recognition. Roshan continued to gaze at the years.The pedagogic sessions would be hold in house, he was much upset. Frequent change of sunken; your lips have dried up. How long will word 'Vyeth' for several minutes. It reminded the backside room of Roshan's residence. He residence was bothering him. Packing the this continue?" But Roshan remained unmoved. him of his childhood days...Their three-storey would narrate interesting stores regarding Vyeth household items once more, bringing them He was so desperate that when he could not find house on Soomyaar Ghat was situated on the to Roshan. He would say that Vyeth which was down through the rickety stairs loading them on a cigarette, he picked up the ashtray and started bank of river Vyeth. known as Vitasta in ancient times and is a bull cart or a tempo, again unloading, untying looking for the butts. In this spacious house, built of stones and considered as one of the oldest and most and again rearranging. It was indeed awful and Once he laid his hand on a reasonably one, teak in a typical Kashmir style, there was a large important rivers of India right now. It was cumbersome for him. The misery would not end he lit it up and in haled it in a few puffs of smoke. window in one of the back side rooms through mentioned both in Rigveda as well as in up there but it would mean moving from one He then eased his tension by making numerous which Roshan would stare at the water of river Mahabharata. In Neelamat Purana, it was named office to another and getting the new address rings of ashen smoke, again sat on his bed, and Vyeth for hours together. He could perhaps view as Neelja i.e. the daughter of Neelnag. Neelnag registered. Ration card, cooking gas, children's was lost in some distant thoughts. Apprehensive the entire world in the quietly flowing water of was the son of Kashyap Rishi after whom the school, and bank-all would have to be and angry, Tosha could not stand the sight. She Vyeth. Through its waters, he could judge the present-day Kashmir is named. It is said that rescheduled. Besides, it would also amount to got up suddenly, squeezed her nose looked at temper of the times and have a feel of the Kashyap Rishi, a venerated saint, drained water

36 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 37 Short Story - Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat

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Vyeth is your identity. Your forefathers have been staying on the bank of river Vyeth since ages. You can never be separated from Vyeth. You simply cannot exist without Vyeth. ince morning Roshan was remorseful and informing all relations and friends about the restless. For the whole day he had not change of address. It would take months Smoved out of his bed-room. The bedding together, that too in a strange city with strange spread on the previous night was carelessly people with no acquaintances around. This has allowed to adorn the floor for the whole day, He been his fate for the last nine years and the neither shaved off his beard nor took a bath as present one was his fifth house in this city. He laziness had overtaken him completely. He had become a rolling stone, a nomad, moving would simply turn sides on his bed. He would from one place to another. Roshan and blurted out, 'You deserve to be left climate. He used to enjoy the daily chores of the neither sit on his bed nor lie down upon it. He He felt as if his existence was threatened. alone... Do whatever you want 'Then she left the life of people staying in the boats near the Ghat. rested his head on the pillow, spread his legs and All sorts of bad and negative ideas started room with a Jerk and tossed the door behind her. He was witness to several delightful scenes. was gazing at the ceiling of the room. Tosha pouring into his mind. His restlessness Roshan sat unmoved. Tosha's anger did not deter Smoking of a hookah (hubble-bubble) by Sultan came and sat near him. She touched his head continued to grow. Suddenly he stood up and him. He had gone through similar routines Joo on one end of his boat, daily quarrels of Saja with her hand and started consoling him, 'Why eagerly started looking for a cigarette. He several times. Since the day they had lost their Maasi and Zaina Ded, the love scenes of should you be sad? Do you think we shall not get opened the almirah, tossed its panes, searched home, such incidents had become a diurnal Tasleema and Ghulam, the boating of tourists in another rented accommodation? After all, it is a his pockets, but could not find a cigarette. feature. Roshan once again picked up the shikaras and the naked children of boatmen big city. If we don't get it, we shall shift to the Actually he had not moved out of his room morning newspaper in his hands and started bathing and swimming across the Vyeth. migrant camps like most of our kinsmen. So why today, and thus had not been to the market to buy looking for the news which said that an Roshan had innumerable memories related be remorseful and sad? his daily stock. Seeing him restless and unidentified body of a young man was flushed to Vyeth right from his childhood to youth. He Roshan did not reply. The very idea of impatient, Tosha too got worried. She said, "Hell out from the Vyeth (River Jhelum) near Sathu. suddenly remembered Hamidullah, the teacher, changing the house would put him off. Since the with these cigarettes! These have taken a toll on The dead body was decomposed beyond who used to teach him during his late school day his landlord had ordered him to vacate the you. Your appetite has gone; your eyes have recognition. Roshan continued to gaze at the years.The pedagogic sessions would be hold in house, he was much upset. Frequent change of sunken; your lips have dried up. How long will word 'Vyeth' for several minutes. It reminded the backside room of Roshan's residence. He residence was bothering him. Packing the this continue?" But Roshan remained unmoved. him of his childhood days...Their three-storey would narrate interesting stores regarding Vyeth household items once more, bringing them He was so desperate that when he could not find house on Soomyaar Ghat was situated on the to Roshan. He would say that Vyeth which was down through the rickety stairs loading them on a cigarette, he picked up the ashtray and started bank of river Vyeth. known as Vitasta in ancient times and is a bull cart or a tempo, again unloading, untying looking for the butts. In this spacious house, built of stones and considered as one of the oldest and most and again rearranging. It was indeed awful and Once he laid his hand on a reasonably one, teak in a typical Kashmir style, there was a large important rivers of India right now. It was cumbersome for him. The misery would not end he lit it up and in haled it in a few puffs of smoke. window in one of the back side rooms through mentioned both in Rigveda as well as in up there but it would mean moving from one He then eased his tension by making numerous which Roshan would stare at the water of river Mahabharata. In Neelamat Purana, it was named office to another and getting the new address rings of ashen smoke, again sat on his bed, and Vyeth for hours together. He could perhaps view as Neelja i.e. the daughter of Neelnag. Neelnag registered. Ration card, cooking gas, children's was lost in some distant thoughts. Apprehensive the entire world in the quietly flowing water of was the son of Kashyap Rishi after whom the school, and bank-all would have to be and angry, Tosha could not stand the sight. She Vyeth. Through its waters, he could judge the present-day Kashmir is named. It is said that rescheduled. Besides, it would also amount to got up suddenly, squeezed her nose looked at temper of the times and have a feel of the Kashyap Rishi, a venerated saint, drained water

36 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 37 out of Satisar, a huge lake, and rehabilitated remarked, 'oh these hopeless people never stay Kashmir. Thereafter, he handed over this land at one place. Like bakkerwalas (nomadic i.e. Kashmir to his son and he himself resumed shepherds), they keep moving from one place to his pursuit of God through prayers and another, they are at one place in spring and at Oral History - Upender Ambardar meditation. another in autumn, they would rope in their boat Roshan would enjoy such stories related to to any Ghat they like. These people do not have a Vyeth as narrated by his teacher Hamidullah. permanent address like you. One hardly has any Hamidullah would always drill in Roshan's ears, clue of their whereabouts, Please help me to 'You too are a son of Neelnag. That is why you locate him, and Let God bless you with a high are assigned the role of being a guard to Vyeth. rank. Let your address remain permanent.' Vyeth is your identity. Your forefathers have Tosha suddenly opened the door with a been staying on the bank of river Vyeth since bang. Roshan was shaken and the newspaper ages. You can never be separated from Vyeth. fell from his hands. Tosha picked up the Tales and Legends You simply cannot exist without Vyeth. Your newspaper at once and threw it in the bathroom. address-Roshan Lal Kaul S/o Sohan Lal Kaul, She quickly poured a bucketful of water on it. Soomyaar Ghat, Near Vitasta, Srinagar, 'Thank God! The bedding is saved. Hell with of Aragam, Bandipore Kashmir-represents your existential identity. these cigarettes! 'Tosha screamed, 'what was so This address shall remain forever. So long as important in this newspaper that you lost your Vyeth moves on, your address shall remain. You senses! Had I not noticed the smoke, we would he legends, fables, oral history are indeed a lucky guy. Your name shall always have been finished, what could have we carried accounts, tales of supernatural spirits, remain part of Vyeth. So far as Vyeth continues from here to our new rented accommodation?’ Theresy stories and stories of tutelary to allow with times, your descendants shall Roshan was in a state of daze, as if he was forest spirits etc. are deeply rooted in the continue to reside on the banks of Vyeth. 'These woken up from deep slumber. His entire body traditional historical and cultural opinions of a were sermons as well as blessings of his teacher was shivering and beads of perspiration coursed place or a region. They are passed on to the Hamidullah to Roshan. down his body. Seeing his condition, Tosha got posterity mostly orally and form a connecting Roshan also remembered the postman doubly anxious. She asked, 'Oh God! What's link between the past and the present times. Salama. Once while looking for the address of happened to you? Where are you lost? I hope They sometimes become narratives of a boatman Ghulama, the postman became you're alright?' Roshan replied desperately, particular place and its people. They may desperate to carry money-order for him he 'Lost, Oh!... Tosha, I am not well. I have lost my possess elements of divinity and travelled across over all ghats from Dal Gate to address... Yes... My address.' supernaturalism, though they may not be Janglat Mandi and from there to Amira Kadal, evidenced by documentary and supporting Gaav Kadal and ultimately to Soomyaar Ghat. Translated fromKashmiri by the author, facts. They usually have an element of mystery As soon as he saw Roshan, he virtually begged Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat is a well-known and may possess a legendary pull and him Io help locate Ghulama's address. He Kashmiri writer and Linguist fascination for the native people. In a plain speak, they can be said to be based on diverse emotional offshoots and legacy of SankatEvents Chaturthi of the Month11th April 2020 centuries of faith and belief. Sankranti/Baisakhi 13th April 2020 Aragam is an obscure picturesque village Ekadashi (Krishna Paksha) 18th April 2020 nestled in the lushness of the green foliage, Amavasya 23rd April 2020 being located about 50 kms from Srinagar on Akshay Tritya 26th April 2020 Srinagar-Bandipore route. Now a part of the newly carved-out Bandipore district, it is at a Kumar Shashti 28th April 2020 Late Sh. Ved Lal Tikoo of Aragam Village distance of five kms. from Bandipore town and Ashtami (Shukla Paksha) 01st May 2020 about twenty five kms. from Sopore. Aragam Ekadashi (Shukla Paksha) 04th May 2020 mainly comprises of plain lands and is which is a lively ambience of pastoral life. The Purnima 07th May 2020 surrounded by wooded mountains on three surrounding mountains support majestic pine sides, locally known as Animbar, Fakhnar and and Deodar forests, while as wild walnuts, Panchak Starts on 18th April and ends on 22nd April Lungmarg forests. The village derives its name chinar, willow and popular trees can be spotted Note Baisakh Krishan Paksha from 13th April to 22nd April from a riverlet which flows through the village. everywhere in the village lands. Paddy

Events of the Month Baisakh Shukla Paksha from 23rd April to 07th May Adjacent to the lungmarg forests is a vast stretch constitutes the main staple crop of the village of imposing grazing ground called 'Ziasun'- though isolated pockets also support maize and

38 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 39 out of Satisar, a huge lake, and rehabilitated remarked, 'oh these hopeless people never stay Kashmir. Thereafter, he handed over this land at one place. Like bakkerwalas (nomadic i.e. Kashmir to his son and he himself resumed shepherds), they keep moving from one place to his pursuit of God through prayers and another, they are at one place in spring and at Oral History - Upender Ambardar meditation. another in autumn, they would rope in their boat Roshan would enjoy such stories related to to any Ghat they like. These people do not have a Vyeth as narrated by his teacher Hamidullah. permanent address like you. One hardly has any Hamidullah would always drill in Roshan's ears, clue of their whereabouts, Please help me to 'You too are a son of Neelnag. That is why you locate him, and Let God bless you with a high are assigned the role of being a guard to Vyeth. rank. Let your address remain permanent.' Vyeth is your identity. Your forefathers have Tosha suddenly opened the door with a been staying on the bank of river Vyeth since bang. Roshan was shaken and the newspaper ages. You can never be separated from Vyeth. fell from his hands. Tosha picked up the Tales and Legends You simply cannot exist without Vyeth. Your newspaper at once and threw it in the bathroom. address-Roshan Lal Kaul S/o Sohan Lal Kaul, She quickly poured a bucketful of water on it. Soomyaar Ghat, Near Vitasta, Srinagar, 'Thank God! The bedding is saved. Hell with of Aragam, Bandipore Kashmir-represents your existential identity. these cigarettes! 'Tosha screamed, 'what was so This address shall remain forever. So long as important in this newspaper that you lost your Vyeth moves on, your address shall remain. You senses! Had I not noticed the smoke, we would he legends, fables, oral history are indeed a lucky guy. Your name shall always have been finished, what could have we carried accounts, tales of supernatural spirits, remain part of Vyeth. So far as Vyeth continues from here to our new rented accommodation?’ Theresy stories and stories of tutelary to allow with times, your descendants shall Roshan was in a state of daze, as if he was forest spirits etc. are deeply rooted in the continue to reside on the banks of Vyeth. 'These woken up from deep slumber. His entire body traditional historical and cultural opinions of a were sermons as well as blessings of his teacher was shivering and beads of perspiration coursed place or a region. They are passed on to the Hamidullah to Roshan. down his body. Seeing his condition, Tosha got posterity mostly orally and form a connecting Roshan also remembered the postman doubly anxious. She asked, 'Oh God! What's link between the past and the present times. Salama. Once while looking for the address of happened to you? Where are you lost? I hope They sometimes become narratives of a boatman Ghulama, the postman became you're alright?' Roshan replied desperately, particular place and its people. They may desperate to carry money-order for him he 'Lost, Oh!... Tosha, I am not well. I have lost my possess elements of divinity and travelled across over all ghats from Dal Gate to address... Yes... My address.' supernaturalism, though they may not be Janglat Mandi and from there to Amira Kadal, evidenced by documentary and supporting Gaav Kadal and ultimately to Soomyaar Ghat. Translated fromKashmiri by the author, facts. They usually have an element of mystery As soon as he saw Roshan, he virtually begged Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat is a well-known and may possess a legendary pull and him Io help locate Ghulama's address. He Kashmiri writer and Linguist fascination for the native people. In a plain speak, they can be said to be based on diverse emotional offshoots and legacy of SankatEvents Chaturthi of the Month11th April 2020 centuries of faith and belief. Sankranti/Baisakhi 13th April 2020 Aragam is an obscure picturesque village Ekadashi (Krishna Paksha) 18th April 2020 nestled in the lushness of the green foliage, Amavasya 23rd April 2020 being located about 50 kms from Srinagar on Akshay Tritya 26th April 2020 Srinagar-Bandipore route. Now a part of the newly carved-out Bandipore district, it is at a Kumar Shashti 28th April 2020 Late Sh. Ved Lal Tikoo of Aragam Village distance of five kms. from Bandipore town and Ashtami (Shukla Paksha) 01st May 2020 about twenty five kms. from Sopore. Aragam Ekadashi (Shukla Paksha) 04th May 2020 mainly comprises of plain lands and is which is a lively ambience of pastoral life. The Purnima 07th May 2020 surrounded by wooded mountains on three surrounding mountains support majestic pine sides, locally known as Animbar, Fakhnar and and Deodar forests, while as wild walnuts, Panchak Starts on 18th April and ends on 22nd April Lungmarg forests. The village derives its name chinar, willow and popular trees can be spotted Note Baisakh Krishan Paksha from 13th April to 22nd April from a riverlet which flows through the village. everywhere in the village lands. Paddy

38 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 39 The villagers believed that late Sh. Tika Lal would often be spotted in the village cremation ground (Razbal) in his astral form in the company of Sagar Raz Bhairav and his associates.

skin as they fled to the adjacent mountains. But of the turban cloth, both Raj Ram and Sahaj Ram in the nearby Bandipore Kharpora town, nine would hold it in their hands till Sagar Raz members of a Kashmiri Pandit family of Sh. Bhairav tied turban on their head. On special Sansar Chand Sadhu (Choudhari) were brutally occasions, they would keep offerings of food in murdered by the tribal men. They were lined-up a thali for Sagar Raz Bhairav. The thali would in a row and subjected to a hail of bullets. Late immediately vanish from sight and it had to be Sansarchand nicknamed as Chowdhari was a collected afterwards from the adjacent well-known trader of his time, whose business cremation ground obviously after Sagar Raz interests extended upto Gilgit. He used to trade Bhairav had accepted the offering. The village in 'Kishmish', dates, hazzle and cashew-nuts cremation ground (Razbal) was about a hundred business and in return would send Kashmiri yards away from their residence. Adjacent to it spices to the frontier province. was a piece of land where Raz-Kath the As per the village lore of Aragam, about sacrificial religious offering of sheep was two and a half centuries back, a Kashmiri Pandit performed in honour of the presiding deity of the namely Sh. Gash Ram lived here and was village. This piece of land is even now known as endowed with spiritual powers. Besides being a 'Rajun', signifying the ownership of it to the saint known agriculturist, he had about nine hundred Raj Ram Tikoo. An attempt made some time livestock. He had acrimonious relations with back by a native Mohammad Tilwani to Akal Bhat, who in order to settle scores with him cultivate it made him bedridden for a couple of A View of Aragam Village invited the professional tribal plunderers called months. 'Baem' to Aragam village. It was seen as an expression of displeasure oil seeds. Secretariat) and Sh. Kanya Lal Tikoo (M.Sc. To escape from the wrath, Gash Ram and annoyance shown by Sagar Raz Bhairav. Aragam also has substantial stretches of Physics) a senior Lecturer in the State Education packed off his two daughters and two sons to the The latter regarded as the presiding deity of the orchards bearing apple, pears, cherry, walnuts, Department. Another Pandit family was that of neighbouring place, while the remaining two villages of Aragam, Garoora, Brar, Chittibandi, and almond fruit trees. The village has about Sh Gulab Ram Raina (agriculturist), who had sons along with their entire livestock took Gund, Dechan, Tantraypora and vast area 2,000 households, out of which about ten were two sons namely Sh. Somnath Raina ( a retired shelter in the Lungmarg forests. They hid extending right upto the Wular Lake. Kashmiri Pandit families; the rest being police inspector) and Sh. Manmohan Raina, themselves in the mountain cave, which even The Late Tika Lal Tikoo, a direct Muslims. All the Kashmiri Pandit families prior who worked in the Block Development Office. today is now as Gash Ram's hut. Gash Ram was descendant of the said family was also a man of to their forced migration in 1990 were The remaining Pandit families were those of Sh. caught and as punishment he was suspended spiritual pursuits. Being a great devotee of the agriculturists and orchardists with livestock Shamboo Nath Nehru, Sh. Madhusudhan Nehru from a tree by means of his skull hair-luft village Bhairav himself, he had immense faith forming an additional source of income. Aragam and Sh. Shyam Lal Nehru, all of them being real (chaog). and reverence for him. He was said to converse has a high literacy rate with most of the Pandit brothers. Their children Sh. Bushan Lal Nehru Astonishingly, he survived the near-death with the Bhairav in his dreamful state during families serving in Government departments. and Sh. Ashok Nehru served in the state ordeal. Later-on he was handed-over to a night as strange and ununderstandable discourse The family of late Sh. Tika Lal Tikoo, who departments. In contrast to the Tikoo families, executioner for being killed. He bribed him by could be heard near his room. The villagers was a head munshi in the forest department the Nehrus are not original residents of the giving an appreciable part of his cattle and in the believed that late Sh. Tika Lal would often be during Maharaja Hari Singh's time is a well- village. They are said to have migrated to bargain got a lease of life. Sh. Gash Ram had five spotted in the village cremation ground (Razbal) known family of the village. He had three sons, Aragam village about two centuries back from sons--Sahaj Ram, Prakash Ram, Raja Ram, Siraj in his astral form in the company of Sagar Raz namely Sh Dwarika Nath Tikoo (agriculturist), Naroo village in tehsil Kishtwar of Doda Ram and Balram. Among them late Sh. Raja Bhairav and his associates. It came to light when Sh. Manmohan Tikoo, an ex-servicemen of the district. The village Aragam has been a witness Ram and Sh Sahaj Ram had saintly disposition a Muslim lady inadvertently stepped inside the J&K light infantry and Sh Chaman Lal Tikoo, to three plunders locally known as 'Baem Loot', and possessed exceptional spiritual powers. village cremation ground in search of her lost who retired from the BSF. The family of Sh. 'Pathan Loot' and 'Qabali Loot'. The 'Baem' were Both of them were ardent devotees of Sagar Raz cow. She was bewildered to spot late Sh. Tika Divram Tikoo (agriculturist) likewise had three ferocious war tribe men of the frontier areas, Bhairav, the presiding deity of the village Lal sitting in the company of persons supporting sons, namely Sh. Rattan Lal Tikoo (M.A, M.Ed) who are said to have resorted to loot and plunder Aragam. white cloaks (pheran) and white turbans. being first position holder in M.Ed) who served hundreds of years back. As per the village lore, both the brothers Due to his spiritual powers, late Sh. Tika in the state education department, Sh Girdhari During the Qabali tribal raid in 1947, the would enter into divine communion with Sagar Lal was quite popular in the village Aragam and Lal Tikoo (a retired employee from the J&K Kashmiri Pandits of Aragam could save their Raz Bhairav. To ensure wrinkle free smoothness its neighbourhood as a spiritual healer for he

40 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 41 The villagers believed that late Sh. Tika Lal would often be spotted in the village cremation ground (Razbal) in his astral form in the company of Sagar Raz Bhairav and his associates.

40 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 41 The village Aragam has an ancient temple by the side of a holy spring, which has a Shivling and a stone idol of the Goddess Parvati. The The Pandit community of Aragam also village temple complex has plenty of willow and Satirical Account - Vinod Razdan became the victims of the militants' popular trees. Another village holy spring called 'Brari Maji Hund Nag' has one kanal of land furry in 1990, when the wife of Sh. Kanya attached to it, which abounds in majestic chinar Lal Tikoo namely, Mrs. Girja Tikoo (Babli) trees. The villagers irrespective of their caste and creed would offer the milk of their first was killed by the terrorists. She was a delivered cow to the holy spring out of laboratory assistant at Govt. High reverence for it. School, Trehgam, (Kupwara). About four kms away from the village Aragam is a hillock known by the name of Shank Paul. A hermit of the same name is said to Kshemendra’s Desopadesa could successfully cure persons afflicted with have done hard penance here hundreds of years various ailments like infectious boils, jaundice, back. It had a few pious springs in its vicinity, headache, high fever and those possessed by evil some of which have now dried-up. The village and Narmamala ( Part-II) spirits. Once a neighbour, Mr. Ghulam Rasool lore says that any unholy misdeed committed in Bhat's daughter Shama got possessed by an evil the area would result in instant rainfall in earlier shemendra did not only minutely one who weeps in the sky. When the Rakhshas, spirit. She was taken to a local Muslim priest for times. observe the administrative and social his masters were destroyed by Lord Vishnu, he cure. After having failed to drive-off the evil A well known Muslim saint and Sofi poet, Kset up of his time, but beautifully bitterly wept in the sky and Kali took pity on spirit, the Peer suggested Shama to be taken to Lala Sahib Aragami was a native of Aragam mentioned it in a satirical manner including him. He was granted “Kalama” (Pen), a sharp Tika Lal for cure. On hearing his name, the civil village. He lived upto the year 1984. In one of constructive criticism. The corruption sword to terrify devas, the Brahmans and other spirit is said to have communicated not to bother his Kashmiri couplets, the poet eulogizes the prevailing then has been mentioned in pious persons. He took his birth to havoc the Sh. Tika Lal as he would leave Shama's body virtues of a Kashmiri Pandit, Narmamala which can be said to be akin to the temples and to reduce the salt and fodder of provided her father promised to make an Desopadesa in many respects described in three cows. Kayastha is shown as always eager to grab "tan darith...... tah zahnar" offering of turmeric rice at the 'Razbal'. Sh. Tika chapters. Narmamala gives an account of a the post of Grihakrityadhipati who is head of the Lal departed from this world in July 1990. The In another Kashmiri verse, the said poet Kayastha or a clerk. This Kayastha finds home deptt. Civil, military and Dharmarth deptt. Pandit community of Aragam also became the exhorts a Kashmiri Pandit girl to have mention in Rajtarangni also and their role Seven executives work under him. He is a victims of the militants' furry in 1990, when the unrestrained devotion for her God as her mentioned in Rajtarangni will be placed by me hypocrite; his devilish character does not remain wife of Sh. Kanya Lal Tikoo namely, Mrs. Girja favourite deity i.e. enshrined in the stone idol side by side of description of Narmamala. As hidden even during religious fervor. He is a wolf Tikoo (Babli) was killed by the terrorists. She itself, per Narmamala, the main administrative in lamb clothing. He caused Brahmins to go on was a laboratory assistant at Govt. High School, "Bata Koori Vate Kanie Manj Chuai Dai, officials have been hunger strike. Here mention in Rajtarangni too is Trehgam, (Kupwara). At the height of the Karee Pooja, Yinai Mushravak Lai." (i) The Grihakrityadhipati relevant when on the cunning advice of militancy she was abducted and subsequently Likewise being a devotee of the Goddess (ii) The Paripalaka Kayasthas, the land is taken away from killed when she had gone to collect her salary at Brahmins of Tullamula village and they not only Parvati, he expresses his reverence for the (iii) The Niyogi . Trehgam. Goddess in the following lines, perform self-immolations, but the curse the king Other officials were mainly subordinate to who soon dies in an accident. On her way back, she had to make a night "Haran Doh Gaie Praran Yaeti Parvati Lo, halt at Tikker village in the house of her them. These are all Kayasthas who pretend to be The next executive officer after him is Sonihaer Paad Yaepaar Trav Lotie Parvati childhood female friend. Tikker was also adherents of Saiva cult. Paripalaka. He is Governor of a province. Those Lo" incidentally her parental village. She was Kshemendra has not tried to project who posses extraordinary record of being kidnapped by her friend's militant turned kins. The Isht Devi of Tikoo families of Aragam Saivism in a bad colour as he himself was a merciless, proud, false and voracious, could She was taken to an adjacent electric saw-mill is Tripur Sundri and her birthday called disciple of Abhinavgupta. The Narmamala compete for this post. He ravaged temples and and mercilessly cut into two haves upto her chest 'Tikchoram' is celebrated on Magh Shukla begins with the description of mythological villages, frightened the villagers. He would earn by the electric-saw and her dead body was later- Paksh Chiturthi by offering turmeric mixed rice birth of Kayastha. He is also known as Divira, honour by murdering, doing crimes like on thrown near a bridge in Tikker. This brutal and goat's liver (Tahar-Charvan) to the family slaying sent a chilling message to the Pandit deity. The Kashmiri Pandits of Aragam and the families of Aragam and the adjoining villages, adjoining villages used to celebrate all the who were left with no alternative but to migrate religious festivals with the usual religious Kshemendra does not say anything about his birth but evidence suggests that from their ancestral homes in order to save their fervour prior to their forced migration from honour and skin. Kashmir. he was born after 990 AD and died after 1065 AD

42 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 43 The village Aragam has an ancient temple by the side of a holy spring, which has a Shivling and a stone idol of the Goddess Parvati. The The Pandit community of Aragam also village temple complex has plenty of willow and Satirical Account - Vinod Razdan became the victims of the militants' popular trees. Another village holy spring called 'Brari Maji Hund Nag' has one kanal of land furry in 1990, when the wife of Sh. Kanya attached to it, which abounds in majestic chinar Lal Tikoo namely, Mrs. Girja Tikoo (Babli) trees. The villagers irrespective of their caste and creed would offer the milk of their first was killed by the terrorists. She was a delivered cow to the holy spring out of laboratory assistant at Govt. High reverence for it. School, Trehgam, (Kupwara). About four kms away from the village Aragam is a hillock known by the name of Shank Paul. A hermit of the same name is said to Kshemendra’s Desopadesa could successfully cure persons afflicted with have done hard penance here hundreds of years various ailments like infectious boils, jaundice, back. It had a few pious springs in its vicinity, headache, high fever and those possessed by evil some of which have now dried-up. The village and Narmamala ( Part-II) spirits. Once a neighbour, Mr. Ghulam Rasool lore says that any unholy misdeed committed in Bhat's daughter Shama got possessed by an evil the area would result in instant rainfall in earlier shemendra did not only minutely one who weeps in the sky. When the Rakhshas, spirit. She was taken to a local Muslim priest for times. observe the administrative and social his masters were destroyed by Lord Vishnu, he cure. After having failed to drive-off the evil A well known Muslim saint and Sofi poet, Kset up of his time, but beautifully bitterly wept in the sky and Kali took pity on spirit, the Peer suggested Shama to be taken to Lala Sahib Aragami was a native of Aragam mentioned it in a satirical manner including him. He was granted “Kalama” (Pen), a sharp Tika Lal for cure. On hearing his name, the civil village. He lived upto the year 1984. In one of constructive criticism. The corruption sword to terrify devas, the Brahmans and other spirit is said to have communicated not to bother his Kashmiri couplets, the poet eulogizes the prevailing then has been mentioned in pious persons. He took his birth to havoc the Sh. Tika Lal as he would leave Shama's body virtues of a Kashmiri Pandit, Narmamala which can be said to be akin to the temples and to reduce the salt and fodder of provided her father promised to make an Desopadesa in many respects described in three cows. Kayastha is shown as always eager to grab "tan darith...... tah zahnar" offering of turmeric rice at the 'Razbal'. Sh. Tika chapters. Narmamala gives an account of a the post of Grihakrityadhipati who is head of the Lal departed from this world in July 1990. The In another Kashmiri verse, the said poet Kayastha or a clerk. This Kayastha finds home deptt. Civil, military and Dharmarth deptt. Pandit community of Aragam also became the exhorts a Kashmiri Pandit girl to have mention in Rajtarangni also and their role Seven executives work under him. He is a victims of the militants' furry in 1990, when the unrestrained devotion for her God as her mentioned in Rajtarangni will be placed by me hypocrite; his devilish character does not remain wife of Sh. Kanya Lal Tikoo namely, Mrs. Girja favourite deity i.e. enshrined in the stone idol side by side of description of Narmamala. As hidden even during religious fervor. He is a wolf Tikoo (Babli) was killed by the terrorists. She itself, per Narmamala, the main administrative in lamb clothing. He caused Brahmins to go on was a laboratory assistant at Govt. High School, "Bata Koori Vate Kanie Manj Chuai Dai, officials have been hunger strike. Here mention in Rajtarangni too is Trehgam, (Kupwara). At the height of the Karee Pooja, Yinai Mushravak Lai." (i) The Grihakrityadhipati relevant when on the cunning advice of militancy she was abducted and subsequently Likewise being a devotee of the Goddess (ii) The Paripalaka Kayasthas, the land is taken away from killed when she had gone to collect her salary at Brahmins of Tullamula village and they not only Parvati, he expresses his reverence for the (iii) The Niyogi . Trehgam. Goddess in the following lines, perform self-immolations, but the curse the king Other officials were mainly subordinate to who soon dies in an accident. On her way back, she had to make a night "Haran Doh Gaie Praran Yaeti Parvati Lo, halt at Tikker village in the house of her them. These are all Kayasthas who pretend to be The next executive officer after him is Sonihaer Paad Yaepaar Trav Lotie Parvati childhood female friend. Tikker was also adherents of Saiva cult. Paripalaka. He is Governor of a province. Those Lo" incidentally her parental village. She was Kshemendra has not tried to project who posses extraordinary record of being kidnapped by her friend's militant turned kins. The Isht Devi of Tikoo families of Aragam Saivism in a bad colour as he himself was a merciless, proud, false and voracious, could She was taken to an adjacent electric saw-mill is Tripur Sundri and her birthday called disciple of Abhinavgupta. The Narmamala compete for this post. He ravaged temples and and mercilessly cut into two haves upto her chest 'Tikchoram' is celebrated on Magh Shukla begins with the description of mythological villages, frightened the villagers. He would earn by the electric-saw and her dead body was later- Paksh Chiturthi by offering turmeric mixed rice birth of Kayastha. He is also known as Divira, honour by murdering, doing crimes like on thrown near a bridge in Tikker. This brutal and goat's liver (Tahar-Charvan) to the family slaying sent a chilling message to the Pandit deity. The Kashmiri Pandits of Aragam and the families of Aragam and the adjoining villages, adjoining villages used to celebrate all the who were left with no alternative but to migrate religious festivals with the usual religious Kshemendra does not say anything about his birth but evidence suggests that from their ancestral homes in order to save their fervour prior to their forced migration from honour and skin. Kashmir. he was born after 990 AD and died after 1065 AD

42 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 43 patricide, Brahamanicide and cow slaughter. their own brethern. Here also Kshemendra Paripalaka’s clerk in chief was called as describes the life of wife of Kayastha, her “Lekhopadhaya” w ho is in charge of journey from poverty to a rich lady and how a confidential record. He is a perfect Physician treats her in a Sycophant manner. The - Vijay Kashkari accountant.He forces villagers to part away character of Physician is briefly mentioned. wooden ladles, small and big grass mats and Astrologer A wonderful satire, wicker work baskets. He wears shabby dress Kshemendra mentions about consulting an before holding this post and similar is the case astrologer who asks boatman for the forecast of with his wife too who previously had earthen weather. He does not trouble himself to learn the jewellery but holds now just a princess would rudiments of Astrology. Kshemendra mentions do. how Astrologer treats wife of Niyogi for Ganj Divira is another executive and is Jaundice (again a satire). A Man Superintendent of Finances. He controls Kshemendra does not say anything about treasury. He gives account of Income and his birth but evidence suggests that he was born Expenditure to Paripalaka. He is a strong after 990 AD and died after 1065 AD. In with a Mission advocate of retrenchment policy and he laid axe Bharatamanjari, he says that he studied Sahitya to the land grants of Brahmins (Quote from with Abhinavgupta, author of the Vidyavivriti or “The power is with the silent ones, who only live Rajtarangni already mentioned above). He Pratyabhijnavrihativimarshini. Evidence and love and then withdraw their personality. curtails the funds for maintenance of temples. suggests that Kshemendra might have been then He helps his master by suggesting ways for about 25 years old. Kshemendra retired from the They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only stealing state property including those of world and probably lived in hermitage. He blessed in being instruments.” temples. Kshemendra compares him to an old rat breathed his last on Tripuresa Mountain where which steals away a store of walnuts. he wrote Dasavtaracharita in the reign of Kalasa -Swami Vivekananda Kayastha as Niyogi His function is to in the year 1065 AD. He was born in a rich supervise villages, their accounts and inspecting family, descendants of Narendra who was roads. He is having First class magisterial minister of Jayapida. He was a follower of Saiva nantnag is a district of Kashmir Valley, the Ashram known as Ramakrishna powers just like Tehsildar of today. He has cult and installed various idols of Siva near situated in the southern part of the Mahasammelan Ashram, Nagdandi. increased his wealth by unfair means, an Nijihama in Handwara, Tehsil. Somendra was valley. Anantnag is famous for its The Ashram was abode of Swami inventory of articles possessed by him is son of Kshemendra and he wrote introduction to A springs and streams. Amongst the famous Ashokanand Maharaj. Born in 1911, Swami ji; mentioned by Kshemendra. He is compared to the Avdana –Kalpalata. Kshemendra shunned streams are Sandran, Brengi, Arpath and Lidder. from a Mukherjee family, belonged to a village an old fish catcher. He speaks bad language and the company of dry logicians and grammarians. The Lidder originates from Sheshnag lake. named Jessore, now in Bangladesh. He was a insults the villagers. He spares neither a He was decent in speech and dress. He ate rich Anantnag used to be summer capital city of Brahman nor a cow. He has coolies on “Beggar” food, loved poetry and music. He later leaned mystic sage, lived an ascetic life. His Guru was Jammu and Kashmir till the capital was shifted Guru Sachananda. On his Guru’s behest, to and through them collects and sends various towards Vaishnivism under the influence of to Srinagar. The name of Anantnag is, works necessary household items to his home. He Soma Bhagvata whom he respected more than spread teachings of Shri Ramakrishna aforesaid, Ananta and Naga, means in Sanskrit Parmahans in Himalayas, he left Bengal on the punishes the people before villagers to display Abhinavgupta. He also pursued Buddhism. as infinite springs. The district is famous for his authority. Niyogi has power to appoint or Kshemendra mentions Abhinavgupta as crest objective as visualised by his Guru. After Surya Martand Mandir, a destination for learned protracted journeys in the towns of North dismiss Patwaris. Patwari is an expert to make Gem among the teachers of that era. Brahmin. false signatures. He obliterates the old letters Himalayas, his last sojourn was Kashmir. Kshemendra’s mastery lied in Satires and Pertinent to mention, during Mughal rule, with his saliva to favour or disfavour a person. criticism. His Darpadalana is a master piece of In Kashmir, his first stay was at governor of Kashmir Islam Khan changed the Kathleshwar temple, near Zaindar Mohalla, Asthana Diviras, Kshemendra mentions the satirical literature in Sanskrit. Kalavilasa name of Anantnag as Islamabad in 1663 AD. them as clerks in the court who do not even spare and Samaymatrika belong to same category. Srinagar. Later, he stayed, for a short time, at the The name of Anantnag was restored by Shrine of Nandakishor Bhairav of Sumbal. their son in law if he has done any criminal act. Kshemendra has been found to have Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu & Kashmir. An interesting mention we find here about a constructive programme for reforms. The Finally on Lord’s call, he found a place called A good number of the KP community Nagdandi. His devotion towards his Guru to practice which was in vogue till our corruption of Kayasthas is mentioned in stalwarts were born in the district, in-particular ch ideas of universe, many within the displacement from Kashmir. That is when Narmamal. The present position of Kashmir is prea belonging to the legal fraternity. The district has vicinity followed him. Locals supported him in Asthana Divira leaves for his office, he likes to no better and it seems DNA of Kayasthas has a place called Nagdandi. The place is about two his mission. When his word spread through the pass by the right side of a sweeper than that of a travelled to present generation. The only Kms away from charming Achabal Mughal length and breadth of the valley, many visited Brahman. He wants to see in the morning face of difference is that now we have a band of garden. On way to Shrine of Uma Nagri, him and became his ardent devotees. The a person who would be helpful in his corrupt executives who operate in the same fashion. Brareiangan, Nawgam, Shangus, at a foothill is Ashram of three huts, took shape of a full grown deeds. These clerks do not like the prosperity of

44 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 45 patricide, Brahamanicide and cow slaughter. their own brethern. Here also Kshemendra Paripalaka’s clerk in chief was called as describes the life of wife of Kayastha, her “Lekhopadhaya” w ho is in charge of journey from poverty to a rich lady and how a confidential record. He is a perfect Physician treats her in a Sycophant manner. The - Vijay Kashkari accountant.He forces villagers to part away character of Physician is briefly mentioned. wooden ladles, small and big grass mats and Astrologer A wonderful satire, wicker work baskets. He wears shabby dress Kshemendra mentions about consulting an before holding this post and similar is the case astrologer who asks boatman for the forecast of with his wife too who previously had earthen weather. He does not trouble himself to learn the jewellery but holds now just a princess would rudiments of Astrology. Kshemendra mentions do. how Astrologer treats wife of Niyogi for Ganj Divira is another executive and is Jaundice (again a satire). A Man Superintendent of Finances. He controls Kshemendra does not say anything about treasury. He gives account of Income and his birth but evidence suggests that he was born Expenditure to Paripalaka. He is a strong after 990 AD and died after 1065 AD. In with a Mission advocate of retrenchment policy and he laid axe Bharatamanjari, he says that he studied Sahitya to the land grants of Brahmins (Quote from with Abhinavgupta, author of the Vidyavivriti or “The power is with the silent ones, who only live Rajtarangni already mentioned above). He Pratyabhijnavrihativimarshini. Evidence and love and then withdraw their personality. curtails the funds for maintenance of temples. suggests that Kshemendra might have been then He helps his master by suggesting ways for about 25 years old. Kshemendra retired from the They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only stealing state property including those of world and probably lived in hermitage. He blessed in being instruments.” temples. Kshemendra compares him to an old rat breathed his last on Tripuresa Mountain where which steals away a store of walnuts. he wrote Dasavtaracharita in the reign of Kalasa -Swami Vivekananda Kayastha as Niyogi His function is to in the year 1065 AD. He was born in a rich supervise villages, their accounts and inspecting family, descendants of Narendra who was roads. He is having First class magisterial minister of Jayapida. He was a follower of Saiva nantnag is a district of Kashmir Valley, the Ashram known as Ramakrishna powers just like Tehsildar of today. He has cult and installed various idols of Siva near situated in the southern part of the Mahasammelan Ashram, Nagdandi. increased his wealth by unfair means, an Nijihama in Handwara, Tehsil. Somendra was valley. Anantnag is famous for its The Ashram was abode of Swami inventory of articles possessed by him is son of Kshemendra and he wrote introduction to A springs and streams. Amongst the famous Ashokanand Maharaj. Born in 1911, Swami ji; mentioned by Kshemendra. He is compared to the Avdana –Kalpalata. Kshemendra shunned streams are Sandran, Brengi, Arpath and Lidder. from a Mukherjee family, belonged to a village an old fish catcher. He speaks bad language and the company of dry logicians and grammarians. The Lidder originates from Sheshnag lake. named Jessore, now in Bangladesh. He was a insults the villagers. He spares neither a He was decent in speech and dress. He ate rich Anantnag used to be summer capital city of Brahman nor a cow. He has coolies on “Beggar” food, loved poetry and music. He later leaned mystic sage, lived an ascetic life. His Guru was Jammu and Kashmir till the capital was shifted Guru Sachananda. On his Guru’s behest, to and through them collects and sends various towards Vaishnivism under the influence of to Srinagar. The name of Anantnag is, works necessary household items to his home. He Soma Bhagvata whom he respected more than spread teachings of Shri Ramakrishna aforesaid, Ananta and Naga, means in Sanskrit Parmahans in Himalayas, he left Bengal on the punishes the people before villagers to display Abhinavgupta. He also pursued Buddhism. as infinite springs. The district is famous for his authority. Niyogi has power to appoint or Kshemendra mentions Abhinavgupta as crest objective as visualised by his Guru. After Surya Martand Mandir, a destination for learned protracted journeys in the towns of North dismiss Patwaris. Patwari is an expert to make Gem among the teachers of that era. Brahmin. false signatures. He obliterates the old letters Himalayas, his last sojourn was Kashmir. Kshemendra’s mastery lied in Satires and Pertinent to mention, during Mughal rule, with his saliva to favour or disfavour a person. criticism. His Darpadalana is a master piece of In Kashmir, his first stay was at governor of Kashmir Islam Khan changed the Kathleshwar temple, near Zaindar Mohalla, Asthana Diviras, Kshemendra mentions the satirical literature in Sanskrit. Kalavilasa name of Anantnag as Islamabad in 1663 AD. them as clerks in the court who do not even spare and Samaymatrika belong to same category. Srinagar. Later, he stayed, for a short time, at the The name of Anantnag was restored by Shrine of Nandakishor Bhairav of Sumbal. their son in law if he has done any criminal act. Kshemendra has been found to have Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu & Kashmir. An interesting mention we find here about a constructive programme for reforms. The Finally on Lord’s call, he found a place called A good number of the KP community Nagdandi. His devotion towards his Guru to practice which was in vogue till our corruption of Kayasthas is mentioned in stalwarts were born in the district, in-particular ch ideas of universe, many within the displacement from Kashmir. That is when Narmamal. The present position of Kashmir is prea belonging to the legal fraternity. The district has vicinity followed him. Locals supported him in Asthana Divira leaves for his office, he likes to no better and it seems DNA of Kayasthas has a place called Nagdandi. The place is about two his mission. When his word spread through the pass by the right side of a sweeper than that of a travelled to present generation. The only Kms away from charming Achabal Mughal length and breadth of the valley, many visited Brahman. He wants to see in the morning face of difference is that now we have a band of garden. On way to Shrine of Uma Nagri, him and became his ardent devotees. The a person who would be helpful in his corrupt executives who operate in the same fashion. Brareiangan, Nawgam, Shangus, at a foothill is Ashram of three huts, took shape of a full grown deeds. These clerks do not like the prosperity of

44 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 45 Ashram with the help of believers. His followers of the cause. They must be physically prepared facilitate and promote normalization in Kashmir supporting, a developed one, the works acquired five acre land. Maharaja Hari Singh for the exertion and torture, mentally ready to Valley through direct Civil Society meets, undertaken are to develop "High Density Apple donated land in 1933, which used to be his suffer everything and monetarily unhesitating to connecting of displaced Hindus to their roots Orchard", with technical & other supports from hunting ground. part with their wealth for translating the noble and intra and inter State integration from Central Institute Of Temperate Horticulture, Swami ji didn’t leave the Ashram till 1970. thought into concrete form.” Kashmir to Kanyakumari (K to K Integration). Government of India. In this context the work is In the year 1970; when he was ill, he wished that Shri Brij Lal When asked about his priorities which he would going on five export-oriented varieties on MM the Ashram was taken over by Shri Ramakrishna Bhat was born in like to get completed, he classified the activities Rootstock for 1500 plants. This is expected to Mission Bellur Mutt, Kolkatta. The Mutt was Kashmir. He worked as: generate Rs 5-7 lacs annually. The project is also hesitant to take over. An invitation was sent to in Jammu & Kashmir A) Spiritually Oriented Service Mission serving as demonstrative unit for the local Shri Eknath Ranade, then organising secretary State under various Activities. populace. In addition, this will add to the of Rock Memorial Vivekananda Kendra, suitable capacities. The activities include, organising annual aesthetic value of the Ashram. Kanyakumari. Shri Ranade accepted the P a s s i o n f o r traditional festivals like Durga Ashtami, 2) Construction of "Vivekananda Bhawan" invitation and visited Kashmir to meet Swami missionary work and Ramanavmi, Smadhi Pratishta of Swamiji & is completed, in addition to the present utilities. Ashokanand ji. He met him in the house of Dr. by motivation of his Nagpanchmi in Nagdandi with participation of The Bhawan is comprising of; one main hall of Jai Lal Ogra at Srinagar. Swami ji had shifted in mentors especially hundreds of devotees, to promote connectivity 3500 sq. ft dimension, four rooms, a hall and the Ogra”s house because of his illness. Swami ji like that of Pt. Prem of displaced community to roots, besides administrative block, library and lavatory attained Nirvaan on 19th December 1971. Nath Bhat and Pt. spiritual gains. Organizing with support of the blocks on the first floor. As per the will of Swami Ashokanand, Harji Lal Jad and community donors, five days Bhandara Service 3) Eight point Lavatory Block, constructed written on 6th October 1970, the Ashram at excessive love for the place brought him to the within Mata Kheer Bhawani, Tulmulla Kashmir under Swacch Bharat Abhiyan at estimated cost Nagadandi came under the control of Ashram. He is connected to "Nagdandi” from on annual Zesht Ashtami festival. The aim is to of Rs 18 lacs, stands completed and the facility is Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari. Since then 1980. His active involvement in its create awareness among devotees about in use by devotees. the Ramakrishna Maha-Sammelan Ashram, Management & Developmental Programmes is teachings of Shree Ramakrishna, Maa Sharda, 4) Water storage tank is connected, at top of Nagdandi, Achabal, Anantnag, is under the from 2012. He took over as Chairman, Swami Vivekananda, Shri Ek Nath Ranade and the Ashram building, commissioned with control of Vivekananda Kendra and Administrative Committee of Shree other saints of Kashmir. The objective is met fixation of distributaries for multi use of water Vivekananda Rock Memorial Kanyakumari. Ramakrishna Mahasammelan Ashram through meets, interactions, sale of books and within the Ashram. The life workers of the Vivekananda Kendra (SRMA), Nagdandi, Achabal, Anantnag, distribution of publicity material among visitors Kashmir (J&K) since 2014. 5) Construction of Shree Ramakrishna assist the administrative committee of Nagdandi within parisar. Organise annual ten days Temple, around 1350 sq ft, completed after Ashram for its development and missionary Shri Bhat categories the "SRMA" vision & ‘National Yog Shikhsha Shiver’ within work. objectives as primary and secondary. The "SRMA"; Nagdandi, with participation of least Despite of difficult situation of Kashmir, primary works for him are to teach, preach, 15 States annually, to promote connection of Ashram remained open and undertook several propagate and preserve "Sanatan Dharma" i.e. Individual to Self to Family to Society to Nation projects. The vision of Swami Ashokanand for the eternal set of duties ordained practices and to whole creation. This is to promote the Ashram is presently been executed by the incumbent upon all Hindus. Secondary, to national integration and universal brotherhood. committee, constituted by Aasra (shelter) for needy, providing temporary Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari. living arrangements for devotees, visitors and The Managing Committee is headed security and defence personnal. Pilgrims on by a Chairman. Present Chairman of visit, avail this facility regularly. Organise the committee is Shri Brij Lal Bhat. hundreds of Karykarta baithaks, Yuwa Appropriate to Shri Bhat, I hereunder Sammelans, Seminars, Workshops, group meets quote Shri Ranade. to strengthen Sanatan Dharma and preserve the “A mere collection of people is age old Himalayan culture and Kashmir ethos. not congenial to the growth of the Organise Medical Camps during organisation. The individuals must be Festivals/Special occasions, Scientific competent in the sense that they must programmes for personality and skill be physically sound, intellectually Development of youth working within and equipped and monetarily rich. As is outside the valley besides mandatory regular said in Sanskrit or in most of the morning and evening pooja archana & kirtans on Indian languages, they should offer special occasions. their Tana (body), Mana (mind) and B) Development and Management Activities. Dhana (wealth) for the propagation 1)To make Ashram self-generating/self-

46 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 47 Ashram with the help of believers. His followers of the cause. They must be physically prepared facilitate and promote normalization in Kashmir supporting, a developed one, the works acquired five acre land. Maharaja Hari Singh for the exertion and torture, mentally ready to Valley through direct Civil Society meets, undertaken are to develop "High Density Apple donated land in 1933, which used to be his suffer everything and monetarily unhesitating to connecting of displaced Hindus to their roots Orchard", with technical & other supports from hunting ground. part with their wealth for translating the noble and intra and inter State integration from Central Institute Of Temperate Horticulture, Swami ji didn’t leave the Ashram till 1970. thought into concrete form.” Kashmir to Kanyakumari (K to K Integration). Government of India. In this context the work is In the year 1970; when he was ill, he wished that Shri Brij Lal When asked about his priorities which he would going on five export-oriented varieties on MM the Ashram was taken over by Shri Ramakrishna Bhat was born in like to get completed, he classified the activities Rootstock for 1500 plants. This is expected to Mission Bellur Mutt, Kolkatta. The Mutt was Kashmir. He worked as: generate Rs 5-7 lacs annually. The project is also hesitant to take over. An invitation was sent to in Jammu & Kashmir A) Spiritually Oriented Service Mission serving as demonstrative unit for the local Shri Eknath Ranade, then organising secretary State under various Activities. populace. In addition, this will add to the of Rock Memorial Vivekananda Kendra, suitable capacities. The activities include, organising annual aesthetic value of the Ashram. Kanyakumari. Shri Ranade accepted the P a s s i o n f o r traditional festivals like Durga Ashtami, 2) Construction of "Vivekananda Bhawan" invitation and visited Kashmir to meet Swami missionary work and Ramanavmi, Smadhi Pratishta of Swamiji & is completed, in addition to the present utilities. Ashokanand ji. He met him in the house of Dr. by motivation of his Nagpanchmi in Nagdandi with participation of The Bhawan is comprising of; one main hall of Jai Lal Ogra at Srinagar. Swami ji had shifted in mentors especially hundreds of devotees, to promote connectivity 3500 sq. ft dimension, four rooms, a hall and the Ogra”s house because of his illness. Swami ji like that of Pt. Prem of displaced community to roots, besides administrative block, library and lavatory attained Nirvaan on 19th December 1971. Nath Bhat and Pt. spiritual gains. Organizing with support of the blocks on the first floor. As per the will of Swami Ashokanand, Harji Lal Jad and community donors, five days Bhandara Service 3) Eight point Lavatory Block, constructed written on 6th October 1970, the Ashram at excessive love for the place brought him to the within Mata Kheer Bhawani, Tulmulla Kashmir under Swacch Bharat Abhiyan at estimated cost Nagadandi came under the control of Ashram. He is connected to "Nagdandi” from on annual Zesht Ashtami festival. The aim is to of Rs 18 lacs, stands completed and the facility is Vivekananda Kendra, Kanyakumari. Since then 1980. His active involvement in its create awareness among devotees about in use by devotees. the Ramakrishna Maha-Sammelan Ashram, Management & Developmental Programmes is teachings of Shree Ramakrishna, Maa Sharda, 4) Water storage tank is connected, at top of Nagdandi, Achabal, Anantnag, is under the from 2012. He took over as Chairman, Swami Vivekananda, Shri Ek Nath Ranade and the Ashram building, commissioned with control of Vivekananda Kendra and Administrative Committee of Shree other saints of Kashmir. The objective is met fixation of distributaries for multi use of water Vivekananda Rock Memorial Kanyakumari. Ramakrishna Mahasammelan Ashram through meets, interactions, sale of books and within the Ashram. The life workers of the Vivekananda Kendra (SRMA), Nagdandi, Achabal, Anantnag, distribution of publicity material among visitors Kashmir (J&K) since 2014. 5) Construction of Shree Ramakrishna assist the administrative committee of Nagdandi within parisar. Organise annual ten days Temple, around 1350 sq ft, completed after Ashram for its development and missionary Shri Bhat categories the "SRMA" vision & ‘National Yog Shikhsha Shiver’ within work. objectives as primary and secondary. The "SRMA"; Nagdandi, with participation of least Despite of difficult situation of Kashmir, primary works for him are to teach, preach, 15 States annually, to promote connection of Ashram remained open and undertook several propagate and preserve "Sanatan Dharma" i.e. Individual to Self to Family to Society to Nation projects. The vision of Swami Ashokanand for the eternal set of duties ordained practices and to whole creation. This is to promote the Ashram is presently been executed by the incumbent upon all Hindus. Secondary, to national integration and universal brotherhood. committee, constituted by Aasra (shelter) for needy, providing temporary Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari. living arrangements for devotees, visitors and The Managing Committee is headed security and defence personnal. Pilgrims on by a Chairman. Present Chairman of visit, avail this facility regularly. Organise the committee is Shri Brij Lal Bhat. hundreds of Karykarta baithaks, Yuwa Appropriate to Shri Bhat, I hereunder Sammelans, Seminars, Workshops, group meets quote Shri Ranade. to strengthen Sanatan Dharma and preserve the “A mere collection of people is age old Himalayan culture and Kashmir ethos. not congenial to the growth of the Organise Medical Camps during organisation. The individuals must be Festivals/Special occasions, Scientific competent in the sense that they must programmes for personality and skill be physically sound, intellectually Development of youth working within and equipped and monetarily rich. As is outside the valley besides mandatory regular said in Sanskrit or in most of the morning and evening pooja archana & kirtans on Indian languages, they should offer special occasions. their Tana (body), Mana (mind) and B) Development and Management Activities. Dhana (wealth) for the propagation 1)To make Ashram self-generating/self-

46 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 47 expansion of old Temple of 320 sq ft “during Zesht Ashtami 1998, we hardly 6) Dormitory Hut around 1100 sq ft is witnessed 100-150 KP's mostly from Secretariat expected to be completed at estimated cost of in Kheer Bhawani Tulmulla and now with Mata Rs 70 lacs during the current year. Kripa the number has progressively increased. - Sanchi Bhat 7) Other works which have been completed The pessimism trend within Community is on are: construction of two suitable rooms with gradual decline and the optimism is increasing. toilet points, renovation of the Maa Sharda Contemplating, I found the team is facing Bhawan with two Halls in the First floor, used by several challenges. The biggest challenge is ladies during festivals and other occasions. about resources and financial management. The Ashram manages all spiritual oriented service 8) To ensure uninterrupted electric supply, mission activities through donations and the Solar Net Work system is expanded within support from displaced KP Community. A few the Ashram, with provision of additional solar activities like YSS, seminars and workshops are Mental Health lights within premises at key points. 63 KV organised on Self financing basis. Vivekananda Electric Transformer is installed. Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra 9) Aasra Ashram is providing temporary Kanyakumari monitors the accounts of the In The Time of COVID-19 facilities for nearly 5000 youth who come from Ashram. different places for recruitments in Defense and For completion of ability to perceive, Shri other Central services. Recently in the National B.L. Bhat gives credits to his team. He says, Tips on How to Stay Sane interest, two companies of Security Personnel “One sparrow can never bring spring. I am who were in the valley on Election and other supported by my very dedicated team of he Chinese virus has taken over the over. You have a right to be sad and the best way duties, were provided the accommodation. Kaykartas who are dedicated to the basic cause. minds of the world more than it has our to deal with sadness is to let the feeling wash 10) Other development works undertaken Religious properties in Kashmir, we firmly Tpeople. COVID-19 related topics have over you. You’ll get around to accept the new were constructions of drains, lanes, paths within believe, can mot be managed & maintained cropped up to such an extent that it feels like we way of life, eventually. Ashram premises. through remote control. We are always within never knew a world that wasn’t impacted by the • Keep a watch on what is in your control 11) To undertake new works, contour and "SRMA" Nagdandi in a revolving process round virus. Also, the focus of the world is and what isn’t: Your hygiene, cleaning your site plan survey was got done by Public Works the year, irrespective of seasonal and diurnal disproportionately on maintaining immunity masks after you come home from doing Department of J&K Government. High-tech variation in climate. without much to do about mental health. To top essential work, washing your hands Engineers & Consultants were engaged as Shri Bhat is excited about his work as it it off, the breadth and volume of information and periodically, and sneezing into your elbow are consultants to negate claims of encroachment brings him closer to the community and news related to the disease that the mind is some of the things in your control. Things like from land mafia by preparing the latest Site Plan connects him to the people for revival of the assaulted with (due to content forwarding via the healthcare scenario of your country, the level Map of the Ashram and its peripheries. Approx. moral values, for which the community is social media) is massive. In this era of to which the virus spreads in other parts of the 90 kanals of the area has been fenced with stone known for. He acknowledges his work as "Pay information overload, anxiety about the future, nation, and the timeline of the current lockdown Back Stage" towards Society/ Nation. He also work and chain link. Wire fencing has also been the uncertainty of the next course of action are examples of what is out of your control. thanks his wife for support in sharing his major completed. The Kendra has retrieved the other related to the virus and the inability to move out Focus only on the things that are in your control, family &social entrustments and supporting and properties also, In-particular 54 kanals of Abi of our homes, it is imperative that we focus our and realize that thinking about the things that are strengthening him in his involvement with Awal (irrigated) land at Kangan Ganderbal and 5 attention on keeping a healthy mental outlook. out of your control will do no good. If it helps, "SRMA"; Nagdandi. kanals & 1 marla commercial plot on main Constant fear and anxiety would mean lesser make a list of things that are in your control and Closing the converse, I asked Shri Bhat, if Achabal Uttrussu. The plot has been fancied. quality of life, irritability, and obsession leading those that aren’t. If you still find yourself he faces any hostility from the neighbours, to fights and a sense of doom. thinking about things not in your control, then 12) Laid Foundation, base & Stone plinth, belonging to majority community. He said, I’ve come up with five simple tips you can for six sided, "Om Shakti Bindu" in the centre of “Threat perceptions are in the Valley but when use to tackle virus-related anxiousness and help the holly spring, to improve the aesthetics & on missionary work, you are bound to leave spiritual value of Ashram. everything to Supreme Lord, the Protector. lessen the fear: When asked about his expectations, Sh. Nagdandi is the symbol of the community’s • Understand that it is ok to be upset: Bhat said, “we continue to strive as a team to identity and resurgence of Hindu India. The We’re all grieving the loss of routine, a perfectly connect more and more Community people to person involved with it needs to be admitted as happy life or in some cases, a job. It’s okay to be Kashmir through "SRMA". As support from the people for a purpose; Shri Ramakrishana upset about it. You don’t have to pretend to be various groups working for displaced and others Paramhansa and Swami Vivekanada lived for. happy. Let yourself feel the sadness, allow your connected to Ashram, the uncertainty is For a person like Shri Brij Lal Bhat, needs no mind to assess the loss of your previous lifestyle. declining, we expect more and more people join appreciation as such people live for a mission Talk to your loved ones about the past, about the movement.” Expressing optimism, he said, and not for popularity. your goals and dreams before the pandemic took

48 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 49 expansion of old Temple of 320 sq ft “during Zesht Ashtami 1998, we hardly 6) Dormitory Hut around 1100 sq ft is witnessed 100-150 KP's mostly from Secretariat expected to be completed at estimated cost of in Kheer Bhawani Tulmulla and now with Mata Rs 70 lacs during the current year. Kripa the number has progressively increased. - Sanchi Bhat 7) Other works which have been completed The pessimism trend within Community is on are: construction of two suitable rooms with gradual decline and the optimism is increasing. toilet points, renovation of the Maa Sharda Contemplating, I found the team is facing Bhawan with two Halls in the First floor, used by several challenges. The biggest challenge is ladies during festivals and other occasions. about resources and financial management. The Ashram manages all spiritual oriented service 8) To ensure uninterrupted electric supply, mission activities through donations and the Solar Net Work system is expanded within support from displaced KP Community. A few the Ashram, with provision of additional solar activities like YSS, seminars and workshops are Mental Health lights within premises at key points. 63 KV organised on Self financing basis. Vivekananda Electric Transformer is installed. Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra 9) Aasra Ashram is providing temporary Kanyakumari monitors the accounts of the In The Time of COVID-19 facilities for nearly 5000 youth who come from Ashram. different places for recruitments in Defense and For completion of ability to perceive, Shri other Central services. Recently in the National B.L. Bhat gives credits to his team. He says, Tips on How to Stay Sane interest, two companies of Security Personnel “One sparrow can never bring spring. I am who were in the valley on Election and other supported by my very dedicated team of he Chinese virus has taken over the over. You have a right to be sad and the best way duties, were provided the accommodation. Kaykartas who are dedicated to the basic cause. minds of the world more than it has our to deal with sadness is to let the feeling wash 10) Other development works undertaken Religious properties in Kashmir, we firmly Tpeople. COVID-19 related topics have over you. You’ll get around to accept the new were constructions of drains, lanes, paths within believe, can mot be managed & maintained cropped up to such an extent that it feels like we way of life, eventually. Ashram premises. through remote control. We are always within never knew a world that wasn’t impacted by the • Keep a watch on what is in your control 11) To undertake new works, contour and "SRMA" Nagdandi in a revolving process round virus. Also, the focus of the world is and what isn’t: Your hygiene, cleaning your site plan survey was got done by Public Works the year, irrespective of seasonal and diurnal disproportionately on maintaining immunity masks after you come home from doing Department of J&K Government. High-tech variation in climate. without much to do about mental health. To top essential work, washing your hands Engineers & Consultants were engaged as Shri Bhat is excited about his work as it it off, the breadth and volume of information and periodically, and sneezing into your elbow are consultants to negate claims of encroachment brings him closer to the community and news related to the disease that the mind is some of the things in your control. Things like from land mafia by preparing the latest Site Plan connects him to the people for revival of the assaulted with (due to content forwarding via the healthcare scenario of your country, the level Map of the Ashram and its peripheries. Approx. moral values, for which the community is social media) is massive. In this era of to which the virus spreads in other parts of the 90 kanals of the area has been fenced with stone known for. He acknowledges his work as "Pay information overload, anxiety about the future, nation, and the timeline of the current lockdown Back Stage" towards Society/ Nation. He also work and chain link. Wire fencing has also been the uncertainty of the next course of action are examples of what is out of your control. thanks his wife for support in sharing his major completed. The Kendra has retrieved the other related to the virus and the inability to move out Focus only on the things that are in your control, family &social entrustments and supporting and properties also, In-particular 54 kanals of Abi of our homes, it is imperative that we focus our and realize that thinking about the things that are strengthening him in his involvement with Awal (irrigated) land at Kangan Ganderbal and 5 attention on keeping a healthy mental outlook. out of your control will do no good. If it helps, "SRMA"; Nagdandi. kanals & 1 marla commercial plot on main Constant fear and anxiety would mean lesser make a list of things that are in your control and Closing the converse, I asked Shri Bhat, if Achabal Uttrussu. The plot has been fancied. quality of life, irritability, and obsession leading those that aren’t. If you still find yourself he faces any hostility from the neighbours, to fights and a sense of doom. thinking about things not in your control, then 12) Laid Foundation, base & Stone plinth, belonging to majority community. He said, I’ve come up with five simple tips you can for six sided, "Om Shakti Bindu" in the centre of “Threat perceptions are in the Valley but when use to tackle virus-related anxiousness and help the holly spring, to improve the aesthetics & on missionary work, you are bound to leave spiritual value of Ashram. everything to Supreme Lord, the Protector. lessen the fear: When asked about his expectations, Sh. Nagdandi is the symbol of the community’s • Understand that it is ok to be upset: Bhat said, “we continue to strive as a team to identity and resurgence of Hindu India. The We’re all grieving the loss of routine, a perfectly connect more and more Community people to person involved with it needs to be admitted as happy life or in some cases, a job. It’s okay to be Kashmir through "SRMA". As support from the people for a purpose; Shri Ramakrishana upset about it. You don’t have to pretend to be various groups working for displaced and others Paramhansa and Swami Vivekanada lived for. happy. Let yourself feel the sadness, allow your connected to Ashram, the uncertainty is For a person like Shri Brij Lal Bhat, needs no mind to assess the loss of your previous lifestyle. declining, we expect more and more people join appreciation as such people live for a mission Talk to your loved ones about the past, about the movement.” Expressing optimism, he said, and not for popularity. your goals and dreams before the pandemic took

48 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 49 stop your thoughts by saying the word “STOP”. releases the hormone endorphin, which causes a Practice this again and again, until thoughts boost of happiness. Make it a point to keep your related to things out of your control stop coming heart rate elevated for 30-40 minutes in a day to you. (sweating is a great thing). There are thousands Body Fitness - Rachita Bhat • Bring yourself back to the present: of YouTube videos to choose from for full-body Every time you catch yourself over thinking workouts or simple dance routines that can keep things that serve no purpose, try and get yourself your heart rate up for a set period of time. If that back to the moment. One way to do so is to doesn’t work, then walk every day on your roof, breathe strategically. Take a long deep breath, balcony or inside your home at a quick pace for hold for five seconds, and let it go slowly. Repeat 30 minutes. this step fifteen-twenty times until you can feel the calm take over you. You can do this exercise • Practice empathy: Staying cooped up in every time you feel like you’re panicking or the house as opposed to going for work is taking Yoga, Meditation experiencing high levels of anxiety. If you can’t a mental toll on all of us. There will be times hold your breath for five seconds, you can just do when your loved ones will be cranky or irritable, deep breathing for ten minutes. maybe unusually so. Give them the benefit of and Drishti • Find ways to physically exert yourself, the doubt. It’s tough to not have the freedom to everyday: Apart from helping you remain switch off from daily situations by going outside physically fit, studies have shown that exercise our homes. Remember to forgive your loved A drishti is commonly used in meditation to focus and concentrate the mind. The most useful changes your brain chemistry in a way that ones for their outbursts (and they should forgive drishti points used are the breath and the third eye center. External focal points can also be reduces stress and anxiety. Exercising also yours) even more than normal. used, such as the tip of the nose, a candle or mandala.

thought to bring my focus to very important reflected in the quality of our mental thoughts. aspect of yoga and meditation which is When the gaze is fixed on a single point the mind I“Drishti” is diminished from being stimulated by all other A “drishti “in English explained as “Gaze” external objects. And when the gaze is fixed on a is a specific focal point that is employed during single point within the body, our awareness Corona meditation or while holding a yoga posture. draws inwards and the mind remains Drishti is a Sanskrit word meaning "sight”. undisturbed by external stimuli. Thus, the use of We communally use during our meditation a drishti allows the mind to focus and move into to improve focus and aid in sense withdrawal. a deep state of concentration. And the constant Practicing Drishti while performing yoga, application of drishti develops ekagraha, single- supports and improves the practice while pointed focus, an essential yogic technique used creating Self-awareness. It also makes breathing to still the mind. Dr Ravi Dhar exercises and meditation more productive. A drishti is commonly used in meditation to Drishti involves conscious seeing, through focus and concentrate the mind. The most useful which the individual looks past the screen of drishti points used are the breath and the third prejudiced beliefs. Hence, it helps one to eye center. External focal points can also be achieve superior levels of consciousness. used, such as the tip of the nose, a candle or mandala. Practicing Drishti not only helps with yogic poses by improving alignment and encouraging There are a total of nine drishtis in yoga. adjustment toward perfecting the poses, but also The following are the gaze positions and related supports mental health and improves mental asanas for each: clarity. 1. Nasagrai drishti :- the nose tip Why Drishti is Important ? 2. Shambhavi Mudra /Bhrumadhye drishti, The ancient yogis discovered that where our the ajna chakra :- between the eyebrows gaze is directed our attention naturally follows, and that the quality of our gazing is directly 3. Nabi chakra drishti :- the navel

50 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 51 stop your thoughts by saying the word “STOP”. releases the hormone endorphin, which causes a Practice this again and again, until thoughts boost of happiness. Make it a point to keep your related to things out of your control stop coming heart rate elevated for 30-40 minutes in a day to you. (sweating is a great thing). There are thousands Body Fitness - Rachita Bhat • Bring yourself back to the present: of YouTube videos to choose from for full-body Every time you catch yourself over thinking workouts or simple dance routines that can keep things that serve no purpose, try and get yourself your heart rate up for a set period of time. If that back to the moment. One way to do so is to doesn’t work, then walk every day on your roof, breathe strategically. Take a long deep breath, balcony or inside your home at a quick pace for hold for five seconds, and let it go slowly. Repeat 30 minutes. this step fifteen-twenty times until you can feel the calm take over you. You can do this exercise • Practice empathy: Staying cooped up in every time you feel like you’re panicking or the house as opposed to going for work is taking Yoga, Meditation experiencing high levels of anxiety. If you can’t a mental toll on all of us. There will be times hold your breath for five seconds, you can just do when your loved ones will be cranky or irritable, deep breathing for ten minutes. maybe unusually so. Give them the benefit of and Drishti • Find ways to physically exert yourself, the doubt. It’s tough to not have the freedom to everyday: Apart from helping you remain switch off from daily situations by going outside physically fit, studies have shown that exercise our homes. Remember to forgive your loved A drishti is commonly used in meditation to focus and concentrate the mind. The most useful changes your brain chemistry in a way that ones for their outbursts (and they should forgive drishti points used are the breath and the third eye center. External focal points can also be reduces stress and anxiety. Exercising also yours) even more than normal. used, such as the tip of the nose, a candle or mandala.

50 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 51 4. Angusthamadhye :- the thumb Stretch the arms straight in front of you. bent the knees generously so as to avoid straining. 5. Hastagrai drishti :- the hands — Bend the elbows, keep the forearms perpendicular to the floor and drop the — In the pose, if you are unable to touch the 6. Parsva drishti :- the right side left arm under the right. palms together, hold a yoga strap in your 7. Parsva drishti :- the left side (All twist — Intertwine the hands so that the palms hands and then twist your palms. poses) touch each other and fingers point . For a deeper challenge, come into the full 8. Padayoragrai drishti :- the toes upwards. pose. Exhale, lean forward and press the forearms against the thigh of the top leg. 9. Urdhva drishti :- upward — Try to lengthen the spine and arise through the crown of the head while . When you lift the hands up, the elbows ASANA FOR THIS MONTH maintaining the balance. should be line with the shoulders. Garudasana /Eagle Pose — Relax the shoulders and gaze at a fixed Benefits of Eagle Pose The, Garudasana named after the divine creature point in front of you. The benefits of Eagle pose are vast. Done ‘Garuda,’ the fierce bird and the vehicle of Lord — properly and consistently, the most noticeable Vishnu has it all– strength, balance, To exit the pose, unwind the legs and benefits include: hands and stand in the mountain pose. coordination, and harmony. As a twisting yoga — Stronger arms, legs, knees and ankles posture, the practitioners of Eagle Pose twirl and Modifications: stretch and wrap their hands and feet in order to — Open shoulder joints, creating space — If balancing in the pose is difficult, cross untangle their body, mind, and spirit upon between the shoulder blades the leg and place the foot of the folded release of the yoga posture. — Open hips and IT band leg on the floor. Eagle pose is a posture that generates great — Increased circulation to all joints joint stability and balance. In order to — Beginners can practice the pose against a — Improved digestion and elimination successfully practice this pose, you must give wall for greater balance and steadiness. your full attention. Eagle pose requires you to Stand with your back to the wall, so the — Improved balance wall supports your torso. focus equal attention on both your upper and — Improved focus (Drishti) lower body. The more you release your muscle — During the practice of the pose, always necessary). The feet should be Cow Face Pose Gomukhasana or Shoelace tension during your exhales, the better the approximately the same distance from release. Through the effect of twisting, the Eagle Go" means "cow" and "Mukha" means "face" in the hips on either side of the body. Sanskrit. When this asana is performed, the final Yoga Posture offers rewards for the immune — system and chakras ,Boost focus, concentration position of the legs resembles the face of a cow. Beginners often have a difficult time getting both sitting bones to rest evenly and the lymphatic system! The eagle fixes his Brings awareness to patterns of breath and on the floor, which can make it difficult eye on one point with superior vision and focus. facilitates subtle movement in your shoulders, for the knees to stack on top of each other arms, hips, and legs, encourages toning and This yoga asana connects us back to the evenly. When the pelvis is tilted, the awareness from the palate to the pelvic floor; third eye chakra which stimulates clear vision. spine can't properly extend. Use a folded fosters internal reflection. We practice eagle pose to aide to check in with blanket or bolster to lift the sitting bones our concentration and fix our gaze upon one Drishti off the floor and support them evenly. point. Bhrumadhye drishti /Shambhavi Mudra (Third — Bring both hands in-between heart Drishti Eye Mudra) / Eyebrow Centre Gazing center and now slowly move your gaze Hastagrai drishti: the hands or Urdhva Drishti, How To Practice Cow Face Pose towards eyebrow center. gazing up to infinity means focussing internally Gomukhasana — Stay here for 2- 3 minutes How To Practice The Eagle Posture — Begin sitting in a cross-legged position — Repeat on the other side (Garudasana): or Easy Sitting Pose (Sukhasana). Modifications : — Stand in Tadasana — Bring the front leg on top of the bottom Focus on the lower body in this Yin yoga — Firmly ground your right foot into the leg crossing the knees one on top of the version. Stack the knees as previously floor. other (note that the knees may not line up described, and rest each hand on a foot. Remain — Gently bend the right knee and cross the completely if the hips are tight). here, or to go deeper, fold forward and rest your left leg over it. — Ensure that both sitting bones are forehead on your knee, stacked fists, or a block. — Tuck the left ankle behind the right calf . touching the ground (use a prop is Or

52 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 53 4. Angusthamadhye :- the thumb Stretch the arms straight in front of you. bent the knees generously so as to avoid straining. 5. Hastagrai drishti :- the hands — Bend the elbows, keep the forearms perpendicular to the floor and drop the — In the pose, if you are unable to touch the 6. Parsva drishti :- the right side left arm under the right. palms together, hold a yoga strap in your 7. Parsva drishti :- the left side (All twist — Intertwine the hands so that the palms hands and then twist your palms. poses) touch each other and fingers point . For a deeper challenge, come into the full 8. Padayoragrai drishti :- the toes upwards. pose. Exhale, lean forward and press the forearms against the thigh of the top leg. 9. Urdhva drishti :- upward — Try to lengthen the spine and arise through the crown of the head while . When you lift the hands up, the elbows ASANA FOR THIS MONTH maintaining the balance. should be line with the shoulders. Garudasana /Eagle Pose — Relax the shoulders and gaze at a fixed Benefits of Eagle Pose The, Garudasana named after the divine creature point in front of you. The benefits of Eagle pose are vast. Done ‘Garuda,’ the fierce bird and the vehicle of Lord — properly and consistently, the most noticeable Vishnu has it all– strength, balance, To exit the pose, unwind the legs and benefits include: hands and stand in the mountain pose. coordination, and harmony. As a twisting yoga — Stronger arms, legs, knees and ankles posture, the practitioners of Eagle Pose twirl and Modifications: stretch and wrap their hands and feet in order to — Open shoulder joints, creating space — If balancing in the pose is difficult, cross untangle their body, mind, and spirit upon between the shoulder blades the leg and place the foot of the folded release of the yoga posture. — Open hips and IT band leg on the floor. Eagle pose is a posture that generates great — Increased circulation to all joints joint stability and balance. In order to — Beginners can practice the pose against a — Improved digestion and elimination successfully practice this pose, you must give wall for greater balance and steadiness. your full attention. Eagle pose requires you to Stand with your back to the wall, so the — Improved balance wall supports your torso. focus equal attention on both your upper and — Improved focus (Drishti) lower body. The more you release your muscle — During the practice of the pose, always necessary). The feet should be Cow Face Pose Gomukhasana or Shoelace tension during your exhales, the better the approximately the same distance from release. Through the effect of twisting, the Eagle Go" means "cow" and "Mukha" means "face" in the hips on either side of the body. Sanskrit. When this asana is performed, the final Yoga Posture offers rewards for the immune — system and chakras ,Boost focus, concentration position of the legs resembles the face of a cow. Beginners often have a difficult time getting both sitting bones to rest evenly and the lymphatic system! The eagle fixes his Brings awareness to patterns of breath and on the floor, which can make it difficult eye on one point with superior vision and focus. facilitates subtle movement in your shoulders, for the knees to stack on top of each other arms, hips, and legs, encourages toning and This yoga asana connects us back to the evenly. When the pelvis is tilted, the awareness from the palate to the pelvic floor; third eye chakra which stimulates clear vision. spine can't properly extend. Use a folded fosters internal reflection. We practice eagle pose to aide to check in with blanket or bolster to lift the sitting bones our concentration and fix our gaze upon one Drishti off the floor and support them evenly. point. Bhrumadhye drishti /Shambhavi Mudra (Third — Bring both hands in-between heart Drishti Eye Mudra) / Eyebrow Centre Gazing center and now slowly move your gaze Hastagrai drishti: the hands or Urdhva Drishti, How To Practice Cow Face Pose towards eyebrow center. gazing up to infinity means focussing internally Gomukhasana — Stay here for 2- 3 minutes How To Practice The Eagle Posture — Begin sitting in a cross-legged position — Repeat on the other side (Garudasana): or Easy Sitting Pose (Sukhasana). Modifications : — Stand in Tadasana — Bring the front leg on top of the bottom Focus on the lower body in this Yin yoga — Firmly ground your right foot into the leg crossing the knees one on top of the version. Stack the knees as previously floor. other (note that the knees may not line up described, and rest each hand on a foot. Remain — Gently bend the right knee and cross the completely if the hips are tight). here, or to go deeper, fold forward and rest your left leg over it. — Ensure that both sitting bones are forehead on your knee, stacked fists, or a block. — Tuck the left ankle behind the right calf . touching the ground (use a prop is Or

52 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 53 Supta Gomukhasana, Reclined Cow Face prematurely, you should allow it to develop — Lie on your back and cross your right naturally over time. knee over the left. In general, practitioners should use the Tribute to Dr. Makhan Lal Hashia — Inhale, grasp your ankles. Exhale, draw various bahya (external) gazing points during your feet towards the floor on either side more externally oriented yoga practices, -Sushil Hashia of your waist. including asanas, kriyas and meditative practices. If you find yourself closing the eyes Dr Makhan Lal Hashia was born to Pt. Sudarshan — Hold your both palm of feet to support. during in any practice return back and re- Hashia and Smt. Leelawati Hashia of Karan Repeat on the other side establish an outer gaze. On the other hand, if the Nagar, Srinagar, Kashmir on 15th Sept, 1936. The outer gaze becomes a distraction to your family was nothing short of a large and joint Benefits concentration, perhaps an inner-directed enterprise where he grew amongst many siblings — Stretches the ankles, hips and thighs, correction is necessary. There is also value to and cousins. He would pride himself in those shoulders, armpits and triceps, and chest having the eyes closed and using antara drishti family values imbibed from his parents. — It's a great pose for those who sit most of during yoga postures, as this creates a deep state He had his early schooling in Mission School, the day at work as it will open your hips and of meditation and inward focus while holding Fateh Kadal, true to the teaching of that great chest, counteracting the slump many people the pose. institution of Srinagar, he lived an active life all adopt while sitting. It is a calming and centering "Liberation can be attained by that through. He graduated as a Bachelor of pose. pranayama which is accomplished by Veterinary sciences from Bombay Veterinary disjoining the course of inspiration and College. — When you combine the cow face with expiration.” During his graduation itself, he was united in Shambhavi Mudra Meditation (Third Eye —Yoga Sutras II:49 marriage with Smt. Shanta Hashia (Khar) on Mudra) – Eyebrow Centre Gazing it 6thJune 1957. Smt. Shanta Ji was a perfect synchronizes the two brain lobes to create inner balance for this energetic always on the move balance. young man. He remained until the twilight years of his life and she played the perfect — This practice brings us deep peace in the homemaker. midst of our hectic outer activities we face in On completion of his graduation, he joined the Animal Husbandry Department in the daily lives. govt of J&K. He served with aplomb and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, bosses and subordinates. The cruel hands of destiny forced him to be an internally displaced — Physically, the mudra strengthens the eye person. He lost his home and hearth to terrorism in 1990, when he moved to New Delhi. muscles and releases accumulated tension in this area He pushed himself hard and adopted to the new challenges. In this, he took the larger family along and never lost sight of smallest of issues faced by the members. Smallest of the — Eyebrow gazing mudra awakes the "agya problems and he would appear from nowhere to provide panacea. He ploughed a fresh field chakra” lying in between the eyebrows. for himself and his family and was soon on the prowl. He moved in the new house in Awaking this chakra enhances the brightness of Faridabad in 1994. Soon, he was all over the social scene amongst Kashmiri Pandit the eyes. community in Faridabad. He played an active role as a close associate of Padmashri J.N. So when you look at an object during your Koul in building of Sharika Bhawan and Hari Parbat in Faridabad. He is the person who practice, don't focus on it with a hard gaze. The initiated the collection for funds across the globe. Where ever he along with his team used to muscles around the eyes should be relaxed and go for the funds, he would say “CHANDUS KRIVTAV TASA, ASI THI FEREYE HUISA” & the gaze should be soft. Instead, use a soft gaze, people loved to give donations to his team. He was also vice president and later served as looking through it toward a vision of cosmic president of Kashmiri Sewak Samaj, Faridabad. When he was associated with KSS unity. Soften your focus to send your attention Faridabad as vice president and president, the team used to go to Jammu to give books and beyond outer appearance to inner essence. scholarship to the needy kids for the education. He was also vice president of All India Kashmiri Samaj, New Delhi. While in AIKS he went to Himachal Pradesh & other states for You should never force yourself to gaze in a admission of our kids in various institutions along with respected Mr. M.K Kaw and was way that strains your eyes, brain, or body. In active member of Samaj Vikas Sansthan, J&K till his last breath. many seated forward bends, for example, the gazing point may be the big toes. But many He breathed his last on 8thJune 2019. Much as he would have loved, all his near and practitioners, at certain stages in their dear ones as well as community members were by his side as he departed to his heavenly abode. Dr. Hashia will always be remembered for his selfless services, sense of humor, an easy development, must take care not to create such demeanor, witty retorts and the same time for his object-oriented devotion to duty. an intense contraction of the back of the neck that this discomfort overwhelms all other Have a beautiful and safe practice. Veshna-bhawnas manz asinas jay !!! awareness. Rather than forcing the gaze Namaskar

54 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 55 Supta Gomukhasana, Reclined Cow Face prematurely, you should allow it to develop — Lie on your back and cross your right naturally over time. knee over the left. In general, practitioners should use the Tribute to Dr. Makhan Lal Hashia — Inhale, grasp your ankles. Exhale, draw various bahya (external) gazing points during your feet towards the floor on either side more externally oriented yoga practices, -Sushil Hashia of your waist. including asanas, kriyas and meditative practices. If you find yourself closing the eyes Dr Makhan Lal Hashia was born to Pt. Sudarshan — Hold your both palm of feet to support. during in any practice return back and re- Hashia and Smt. Leelawati Hashia of Karan Repeat on the other side establish an outer gaze. On the other hand, if the Nagar, Srinagar, Kashmir on 15th Sept, 1936. The outer gaze becomes a distraction to your family was nothing short of a large and joint Benefits concentration, perhaps an inner-directed enterprise where he grew amongst many siblings — Stretches the ankles, hips and thighs, correction is necessary. There is also value to and cousins. He would pride himself in those shoulders, armpits and triceps, and chest having the eyes closed and using antara drishti family values imbibed from his parents. — It's a great pose for those who sit most of during yoga postures, as this creates a deep state He had his early schooling in Mission School, the day at work as it will open your hips and of meditation and inward focus while holding Fateh Kadal, true to the teaching of that great chest, counteracting the slump many people the pose. institution of Srinagar, he lived an active life all adopt while sitting. It is a calming and centering "Liberation can be attained by that through. He graduated as a Bachelor of pose. pranayama which is accomplished by Veterinary sciences from Bombay Veterinary disjoining the course of inspiration and College. — When you combine the cow face with expiration.” During his graduation itself, he was united in Shambhavi Mudra Meditation (Third Eye —Yoga Sutras II:49 marriage with Smt. Shanta Hashia (Khar) on Mudra) – Eyebrow Centre Gazing it 6thJune 1957. Smt. Shanta Ji was a perfect synchronizes the two brain lobes to create inner balance for this energetic always on the move balance. young man. He remained until the twilight years of his life and she played the perfect — This practice brings us deep peace in the homemaker. midst of our hectic outer activities we face in On completion of his graduation, he joined the Animal Husbandry Department in the daily lives. govt of J&K. He served with aplomb and was held in high esteem by his contemporaries, bosses and subordinates. The cruel hands of destiny forced him to be an internally displaced — Physically, the mudra strengthens the eye person. He lost his home and hearth to terrorism in 1990, when he moved to New Delhi. muscles and releases accumulated tension in this area He pushed himself hard and adopted to the new challenges. In this, he took the larger family along and never lost sight of smallest of issues faced by the members. Smallest of the — Eyebrow gazing mudra awakes the "agya problems and he would appear from nowhere to provide panacea. He ploughed a fresh field chakra” lying in between the eyebrows. for himself and his family and was soon on the prowl. He moved in the new house in Awaking this chakra enhances the brightness of Faridabad in 1994. Soon, he was all over the social scene amongst Kashmiri Pandit the eyes. community in Faridabad. He played an active role as a close associate of Padmashri J.N. So when you look at an object during your Koul in building of Sharika Bhawan and Hari Parbat in Faridabad. He is the person who practice, don't focus on it with a hard gaze. The initiated the collection for funds across the globe. Where ever he along with his team used to muscles around the eyes should be relaxed and go for the funds, he would say “CHANDUS KRIVTAV TASA, ASI THI FEREYE HUISA” & the gaze should be soft. Instead, use a soft gaze, people loved to give donations to his team. He was also vice president and later served as looking through it toward a vision of cosmic president of Kashmiri Sewak Samaj, Faridabad. When he was associated with KSS unity. Soften your focus to send your attention Faridabad as vice president and president, the team used to go to Jammu to give books and beyond outer appearance to inner essence. scholarship to the needy kids for the education. He was also vice president of All India Kashmiri Samaj, New Delhi. While in AIKS he went to Himachal Pradesh & other states for You should never force yourself to gaze in a admission of our kids in various institutions along with respected Mr. M.K Kaw and was way that strains your eyes, brain, or body. In active member of Samaj Vikas Sansthan, J&K till his last breath. many seated forward bends, for example, the gazing point may be the big toes. But many He breathed his last on 8thJune 2019. Much as he would have loved, all his near and practitioners, at certain stages in their dear ones as well as community members were by his side as he departed to his heavenly abode. Dr. Hashia will always be remembered for his selfless services, sense of humor, an easy development, must take care not to create such demeanor, witty retorts and the same time for his object-oriented devotion to duty. an intense contraction of the back of the neck that this discomfort overwhelms all other Have a beautiful and safe practice. Veshna-bhawnas manz asinas jay !!! awareness. Rather than forcing the gaze Namaskar

54 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 55 COUNSELLING Vijay Kashkari MARTYRS OF JIHAD IN KASHMIR April List of Martyrs NAAD Education Folio Team NAAD pays homage to the martyrs who were brutally killed by Jihadis in Kashmir which eventually led to COUNSELLING îî IIT Delhi releases JEE Advanced 2020 Information the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandit's from their Homeland. The list given below is not comprehensive. We Brochure request community members, friends and relatives of victims to share with us the details of martyrs so that a list is îî CBSE partnership with Intel Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has constantly updated. Due to the violent & disturbed conditions prevailing in Kashmir during the initial phase of The Central Board of Secondary Education released the Information Brochure for JEE militancy, there may be some discrepancies prevailing in the information given below. (CBSE) has partnered with Intel to incorporate a A d v a n c e d o n its official website: SR. NO NAME LOCATION KILLING DATE curriculum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its https://jeeadv.ac.in. As per the information affiliated school across India. After a launch as a brochure, JEE advanced will be conducted on May 1 Sh. P N Handoo Srinagar 01.04.1990 pilot project in eight schools in the year 2019, the 17, 2020 across the country and abroad for 2 Sh. Prem Nath Tickoo --- 05.04.1990 curriculum is now set to be implemented. With this Admission to 23 IITs in the country. The total 3 Sh. K.K.Koul Srinagar 05.04.1990 move, CBSE is expected to empower over one lakh number of supernumerary seats for female 4 Sh. Radha Krishan Karan Nagar, Srinagar 05.04.1990 students. As per the Memorandum of candidates for academic session 2020-21 has been increased to 20% as compared to 17% seats last 5 Sh. Prem Nath Koul Kil, Pulwama 05.04.1990 Understanding (MoU) signed between Intel and year. 6 Sh. Radha Krishan Koul --- 06.04.1990 CBSE, the project involves setting up a focused AI The application process for JEE Advanced 7 Sh. Ashok Kumar --- 06.04.1990 Skills Lab and trained facilitators in CBSE- 2020 will begin on May 1, 2020 and will conclude 8 Sh. H.L.Khera Srinagar 06.04.1990 affiliated schools. According to Intel, there is a on May 6, 2020. The last day to pay the fees for the 9 Sh. Rameesh Peer Vichar Naag, Srinagar 06.04.1990 skill gap in the demand for AI workforce and registered is May 7, 2020. JEE Advanced 2020 10 Sh.Kari Lal --- 09.04.1990 trained professionals, so they have rolled out a exam would be conducted on May 17, 2020 in CBT 11 Sh. Makhan Lal Wanganoo Srinagar 10.04.1990 comprehensive program called 'Intel AI for Youth'. mode across the country and abroad for a total of 12 Sh. Dina Nath - 13.04.1990 Intel also stated that special emphasis will be put in 12,463 seats at 23 IITs in the country. 13 Smt. Sarla Bhat Srinagar 19.04.1990 northern India and north-eastern Indian states in Around 2.5 lakh top candidates of JEE Main 14 Sh. Makhan Lal Kani Kadal, Sringar 21.04.1990 terms of the AI curriculum, with “special focus on 2020 exam are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 15 Sh. Sushil Kr Kotru Rainawali, Srinagar 22.04.1990 aspirational districts”. 2020. 16 Sh. Joginder Malhotra Safakadal, Srinagar 22.04.1990 Dr. Biswajit Saha, director of skill education Through JEE Advanced 2020, IITs, offer 17 Sh. Ravinder Kr. Pandit Mattan, Anantnag 24.04.1990 and training with CBSE said in a press statement admission to undergraduate courses leading to a 18 Sh. Narender Nath … 24.04.1990 that – “AI has been widely recognised as the power Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s or Bachelor- Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences or 19 Sh. Niranjan Nath …. 24.04.1990 that will fuel India's digital economy. It is Architecture 20 Sh. Bansi Lal Sapru …. 24.04.1990 imperative to understand its importance and enable The examination consists of two papers 21 Sh. Kashi Ram …. 25.04.1990 Indian youth to become adept in harnessing its positive impact. CBSE is the only Board that has (Paper 1 and Paper 2) of three hours duration each. 22 Sh. Sapru Sampath Zakura Budgam 25.04.1990 Both the papers are compulsory. The examination 23 Sh. Surender Budgam Mattan, Anantnag 25.04.1990 introduced AI as a full-fledged subject in school curriculum. Our collaboration with Intel has will be held as per the following schedule: 24 Smt. Sarla Bhat Qazi Mohalla, Anantnag 25.04.1990 helped us empower the youth with AI skills in an — Paper 1: 09:00 IST to 12:00 IST 25 Sh. Bhushan Lal Budgam 26.04.1990 inclusive way and we hope to take this journey — Paper 2: 14:30 IST to 17:30 IST 26 Dr. Raj Nath New Khanda, Srinagar 26.04.1990 ahead in a big way in the coming years.” 27 Sh. Raj Nath Raina - 26.04.1990 ADMISSION ALERT 28 Sh. Brij Lal Shah Sadhu Ganga, Kupwara 27.04.1990 Intel collaborated with Kendriya Vidyalaya îî PUTHAT 2020 - Panjab University Tourism and 29 Sh. M L Pandita Tikri, Kupwara 27.04.1990 Sanghathan to set up India's first AI Skills Lab in Hospitality Aptitude Test 30 Sh. Bansi Lal Sapru Chattergul, Srinagar 28.04.1990 accordance with the AI curriculum specified by Admission to Bachelor of Hotel Management and CBSE at Dr Rajendra Prasad Kendriya Vidyalaya, 31 Sh. Bharat Bhushan Pampore, Srinagar 28.04.1990 Catering Technology (BHMCT), Bachelor of New Delhi. 32 Sh. Predhiman Krishan Bhat Lolab, Sogam 28.04.1990 Tourism and Travel Management (BTTM). 33 Sh. Gushi Lal …. 29.04.1990 CBSE and Intel together will soon be Interested candidates will be able to submit 34 Sh. Daleep Kumar Nowhatta, Srinagar 30.04.1990 launching a 'National AI Olympiad' to motivate their application on or before 30th April 2020. v 35 Sh. Dwarika Nath Anantnag 30.04.1990 young students to showcase their meaningful Last date of Submission to Generate Challan: 23rd April 2020 36 Sh. Heera lal Khar Kak Mohalla, Srinagar 30.04.1990 social impact solutions as evidence of achievement, is also stated in MoU

56 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 57 COUNSELLING Vijay Kashkari MARTYRS OF JIHAD IN KASHMIR April List of Martyrs NAAD Education Folio Team NAAD pays homage to the martyrs who were brutally killed by Jihadis in Kashmir which eventually led to COUNSELLING îî IIT Delhi releases JEE Advanced 2020 Information the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandit's from their Homeland. The list given below is not comprehensive. We Brochure request community members, friends and relatives of victims to share with us the details of martyrs so that a list is îî CBSE partnership with Intel Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has constantly updated. Due to the violent & disturbed conditions prevailing in Kashmir during the initial phase of The Central Board of Secondary Education released the Information Brochure for JEE militancy, there may be some discrepancies prevailing in the information given below. (CBSE) has partnered with Intel to incorporate a A d v a n c e d o n its official website: SR. NO NAME LOCATION KILLING DATE curriculum on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its https://jeeadv.ac.in. As per the information affiliated school across India. After a launch as a brochure, JEE advanced will be conducted on May 1 Sh. P N Handoo Srinagar 01.04.1990 pilot project in eight schools in the year 2019, the 17, 2020 across the country and abroad for 2 Sh. Prem Nath Tickoo --- 05.04.1990 curriculum is now set to be implemented. With this Admission to 23 IITs in the country. The total 3 Sh. K.K.Koul Srinagar 05.04.1990 move, CBSE is expected to empower over one lakh number of supernumerary seats for female 4 Sh. Radha Krishan Karan Nagar, Srinagar 05.04.1990 students. As per the Memorandum of candidates for academic session 2020-21 has been increased to 20% as compared to 17% seats last 5 Sh. Prem Nath Koul Kil, Pulwama 05.04.1990 Understanding (MoU) signed between Intel and year. 6 Sh. Radha Krishan Koul --- 06.04.1990 CBSE, the project involves setting up a focused AI The application process for JEE Advanced 7 Sh. Ashok Kumar --- 06.04.1990 Skills Lab and trained facilitators in CBSE- 2020 will begin on May 1, 2020 and will conclude 8 Sh. H.L.Khera Srinagar 06.04.1990 affiliated schools. According to Intel, there is a on May 6, 2020. The last day to pay the fees for the 9 Sh. Rameesh Peer Vichar Naag, Srinagar 06.04.1990 skill gap in the demand for AI workforce and registered is May 7, 2020. JEE Advanced 2020 10 Sh.Kari Lal --- 09.04.1990 trained professionals, so they have rolled out a exam would be conducted on May 17, 2020 in CBT 11 Sh. Makhan Lal Wanganoo Srinagar 10.04.1990 comprehensive program called 'Intel AI for Youth'. mode across the country and abroad for a total of 12 Sh. Dina Nath - 13.04.1990 Intel also stated that special emphasis will be put in 12,463 seats at 23 IITs in the country. 13 Smt. Sarla Bhat Srinagar 19.04.1990 northern India and north-eastern Indian states in Around 2.5 lakh top candidates of JEE Main 14 Sh. Makhan Lal Kani Kadal, Sringar 21.04.1990 terms of the AI curriculum, with “special focus on 2020 exam are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 15 Sh. Sushil Kr Kotru Rainawali, Srinagar 22.04.1990 aspirational districts”. 2020. 16 Sh. Joginder Malhotra Safakadal, Srinagar 22.04.1990 Dr. Biswajit Saha, director of skill education Through JEE Advanced 2020, IITs, offer 17 Sh. Ravinder Kr. Pandit Mattan, Anantnag 24.04.1990 and training with CBSE said in a press statement admission to undergraduate courses leading to a 18 Sh. Narender Nath … 24.04.1990 that – “AI has been widely recognised as the power Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s or Bachelor- Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences or 19 Sh. Niranjan Nath …. 24.04.1990 that will fuel India's digital economy. It is Architecture 20 Sh. Bansi Lal Sapru …. 24.04.1990 imperative to understand its importance and enable The examination consists of two papers 21 Sh. Kashi Ram …. 25.04.1990 Indian youth to become adept in harnessing its positive impact. CBSE is the only Board that has (Paper 1 and Paper 2) of three hours duration each. 22 Sh. Sapru Sampath Zakura Budgam 25.04.1990 Both the papers are compulsory. The examination 23 Sh. Surender Budgam Mattan, Anantnag 25.04.1990 introduced AI as a full-fledged subject in school curriculum. Our collaboration with Intel has will be held as per the following schedule: 24 Smt. Sarla Bhat Qazi Mohalla, Anantnag 25.04.1990 helped us empower the youth with AI skills in an — Paper 1: 09:00 IST to 12:00 IST 25 Sh. Bhushan Lal Budgam 26.04.1990 inclusive way and we hope to take this journey — Paper 2: 14:30 IST to 17:30 IST 26 Dr. Raj Nath New Khanda, Srinagar 26.04.1990 ahead in a big way in the coming years.” 27 Sh. Raj Nath Raina - 26.04.1990 ADMISSION ALERT 28 Sh. Brij Lal Shah Sadhu Ganga, Kupwara 27.04.1990 Intel collaborated with Kendriya Vidyalaya îî PUTHAT 2020 - Panjab University Tourism and 29 Sh. M L Pandita Tikri, Kupwara 27.04.1990 Sanghathan to set up India's first AI Skills Lab in Hospitality Aptitude Test 30 Sh. Bansi Lal Sapru Chattergul, Srinagar 28.04.1990 accordance with the AI curriculum specified by Admission to Bachelor of Hotel Management and CBSE at Dr Rajendra Prasad Kendriya Vidyalaya, 31 Sh. Bharat Bhushan Pampore, Srinagar 28.04.1990 Catering Technology (BHMCT), Bachelor of New Delhi. 32 Sh. Predhiman Krishan Bhat Lolab, Sogam 28.04.1990 Tourism and Travel Management (BTTM). 33 Sh. Gushi Lal …. 29.04.1990 CBSE and Intel together will soon be Interested candidates will be able to submit 34 Sh. Daleep Kumar Nowhatta, Srinagar 30.04.1990 launching a 'National AI Olympiad' to motivate their application on or before 30th April 2020. v 35 Sh. Dwarika Nath Anantnag 30.04.1990 young students to showcase their meaningful Last date of Submission to Generate Challan: 23rd April 2020 36 Sh. Heera lal Khar Kak Mohalla, Srinagar 30.04.1990 social impact solutions as evidence of achievement, is also stated in MoU

56 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 57 v Last date for deposit of fee in any branch of application process or the examination, they may www.smvdu.ac.in and admission.smvdu.ac.in for v Last date for Applying online 20th: June 2020 State bank of India using a website generated write email at [email protected], or on applying Online & Submission of Application v Date of entrance test will be on 5th July 2020 challan: 27th April 2020 the phone at 080 47162020 (between 10:00 am to CBSE partners with INTEL v Interview same day, 5th July 2020 From: 2:00 v 05:00 pm on all working days). Last date of uploading the documents: 30th îî Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi pm onwards (Sunday) April 2020 îî Thapar University M.Sc. Admission Admission MCA v Declaration of 1st Provisional Selection List: v PUTHAT Examination Date: 15th May 2020 Institute of Engineering & Technology, Thapar The admission is offered at Birla Institute of 6th July 2020 University invites applications for admission to v 1st Counseling: 25th June 2020 Technology, Mesra (Main Campus) v Applicants should download hall tickets from the Master of Science Program; M.Sc. (Bio- v Examination Mode: offline and its Off Campuses at Jaipur, Lalpur and Noida website https://sche.ap.gov.in/icet only. Technology), M.Sc. (Chemistry), M.Sc. îî Register Online in PUTHAT website (Biochemistry), M.Sc. (Mathematics), M.Sc. Upto 1 seat at all Campuses is reserved for Uttarakhand Technical University B.Tech https://puthat.puchd.ac.in (Mathematics and Computing) and M.Sc. candidates who are Sons or Daughters of Kashmiri Biochemical Engineering Additional seats for wards of Kashmiri Displaced (Environmental Sciences) for the academic year Migrant who otherwise have qualified for All the registration forms can be downloaded from Persons 2020. Application can be submitted through online admissions. the University website. The application process is îî Punjab University Chandigarh mode till April 30, 2020. v Last date for applying online is 20 May 2020 online. For courses that require the UKSEE qualification, candidates need to register for the Entrance Test for Admission to B.A./B.Com. v Last date for receipt of completed application v Admit card will be released on 30 May 2020 entrance test on the website by following these LL.B. (Hons.) 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Candidates Management at IITTM Campuses Gwalior, are available on Website https://uglaw.puchd.ac.in programs. will not be permitted to alter their preferences at a from 1st April 2020. Bhubaneswar, Noida and Nellore Centers for the MAT is considered for admission to over 600 B- later stage. session 2020-22. v Last date for submission of application: 7th Schools across India. îî BIT Meera Admission to 4-Year BHMCT (Hotel v May 2020 Last date of applying to appear in written test v Last Date for Online Registration is 26th April Management) Program (IIAT): 29th May 2020 Detailed instructions for submission of online 2020 (Sunday) Application form is available online at website v Application Form and payment of Fee are available Admission Test (IIAT) 2020: 07th June 2020 v www.bitmesra.ac.in,to register. on the website https://uglaw.puchd.ac.in Paper-Based Test (PBT) will be taken on 03rd v GD and PI for all applicants (all centers): 15th May 2020 Candidates must have passed Class 12 / îî Thapar University MCA (3 years) & MCA Lateral (2 to19th June 2020 v Intermediate or equivalent qualifying examination For computer based test Last Date for Online Bachelor degree from a recognized university, years) Admission with 50% marks in Class 12 / Intermediate or Registration is 10th May 2020 having secured a minimum of 50% aggregate in v Last date for receipt of completed application equivalent qualifying examination with English as v Computer Based Test will be on 16th May 2020 case of General categories is eligible to apply. forms: June 30th, 2020 a subject. 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58 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 59 v Last date for deposit of fee in any branch of application process or the examination, they may www.smvdu.ac.in and admission.smvdu.ac.in for v Last date for Applying online 20th: June 2020 State bank of India using a website generated write email at [email protected], or on applying Online & Submission of Application v Date of entrance test will be on 5th July 2020 challan: 27th April 2020 the phone at 080 47162020 (between 10:00 am to CBSE partners with INTEL v Interview same day, 5th July 2020 From: 2:00 v 05:00 pm on all working days). Last date of uploading the documents: 30th îî Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi pm onwards (Sunday) April 2020 îî Thapar University M.Sc. Admission Admission MCA v Declaration of 1st Provisional Selection List: v PUTHAT Examination Date: 15th May 2020 Institute of Engineering & Technology, Thapar The admission is offered at Birla Institute of 6th July 2020 University invites applications for admission to v 1st Counseling: 25th June 2020 Technology, Mesra (Main Campus) v Applicants should download hall tickets from the Master of Science Program; M.Sc. (Bio- v Examination Mode: offline and its Off Campuses at Jaipur, Lalpur and Noida website https://sche.ap.gov.in/icet only. Technology), M.Sc. (Chemistry), M.Sc. îî Register Online in PUTHAT website (Biochemistry), M.Sc. (Mathematics), M.Sc. Upto 1 seat at all Campuses is reserved for Uttarakhand Technical University B.Tech https://puthat.puchd.ac.in (Mathematics and Computing) and M.Sc. candidates who are Sons or Daughters of Kashmiri Biochemical Engineering Additional seats for wards of Kashmiri Displaced (Environmental Sciences) for the academic year Migrant who otherwise have qualified for All the registration forms can be downloaded from Persons 2020. Application can be submitted through online admissions. the University website. The application process is îî Punjab University Chandigarh mode till April 30, 2020. v Last date for applying online is 20 May 2020 online. For courses that require the UKSEE qualification, candidates need to register for the Entrance Test for Admission to B.A./B.Com. v Last date for receipt of completed application v Admit card will be released on 30 May 2020 entrance test on the website by following these LL.B. (Hons.) (5 Years Integrated Course) forms: June 30, 2020 v The Online Computer Based test will be on 14 steps: Entrance test on 24th May 2020 at Chandigarh v Counselling including a deposit of fee: July 01, June 2020 v Application Form Availability: 15 Apr to 30 Centre only for the following institutes: 2020 Eligible candidates must complete and submit Apr, 2020 v University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), v Counselling including a deposit of fee: July 01, the application form online only [link available on v Date of Entrance Exam: 13 May, 2020; 14 May, Panjab University, Sector 14, Chandigarh 2020 the Institute website www.bitmesra.ac.in]. Pay 2020; v UILS, Swami Sarvanand Giri, Panjab Applicants can apply online www.thapar.edu application fee of Rs.2,500/- (General candidates) through ICICI payment Gateway/net banking / v Counseling Starts: 01 Jul - 30 Jul, 2020 University Regional Centre, Bajwara, îî MAT 2020 Hoshiarpur debit card / credit card of any nationalized bank till îî IITTM MBA (Tourism & Travel Management) Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a the last date of application process. v Applications are invited for admission to 2-year UIL, Panjab University Regional Centre, Civil standardized test being administered since 1988 to The candidates may select multiple choice of full-time Master of Business Administration Lines, Ludhiana facilitate Business Schools (B-Schools) to screen place for study maximum of three campuses, in (MBA) Program in Tourism and Travel The Prospectus and Online Application Form candidates for admission to MBA and allied order of preference from the prompt. Candidates Management at IITTM Campuses Gwalior, are available on Website https://uglaw.puchd.ac.in programs. will not be permitted to alter their preferences at a from 1st April 2020. Bhubaneswar, Noida and Nellore Centers for the MAT is considered for admission to over 600 B- later stage. session 2020-22. v Last date for submission of application: 7th Schools across India. îî BIT Meera Admission to 4-Year BHMCT (Hotel v May 2020 Last date of applying to appear in written test v Last Date for Online Registration is 26th April Management) Program (IIAT): 29th May 2020 Detailed instructions for submission of online 2020 (Sunday) Application form is available online at website v Application Form and payment of Fee are available Admission Test (IIAT) 2020: 07th June 2020 v www.bitmesra.ac.in,to register. on the website https://uglaw.puchd.ac.in Paper-Based Test (PBT) will be taken on 03rd v GD and PI for all applicants (all centers): 15th May 2020 Candidates must have passed Class 12 / îî Thapar University MCA (3 years) & MCA Lateral (2 to19th June 2020 v Intermediate or equivalent qualifying examination For computer based test Last Date for Online Bachelor degree from a recognized university, years) Admission with 50% marks in Class 12 / Intermediate or Registration is 10th May 2020 having secured a minimum of 50% aggregate in v Last date for receipt of completed application equivalent qualifying examination with English as v Computer Based Test will be on 16th May 2020 case of General categories is eligible to apply. forms: June 30th, 2020 a subject. Register online at website link: Must appear in any of the following v Counselling: July 06th, 2020 The selection will be based on performance of https://mat.aima.in/may20/register-online Management Entrance Test and submit a valid Visit website www.thapar.edu for details. the candidate in the Entrance Test and Interview îî SMV Devi University UG PG and PhD Admission score card (MAT/ CAT/ CMAT/ XAT/ GMAT/ îî conducted by the Institute. CLAT 2020 Postponed, last date to apply extended 2020 ATMA) between June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2020). v Upto 1 seat may be allotted to the candidates Due to the concerns arising out of the COVID-19 Appear in written test “IGNTU IITTM Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (Jammu who are Sons or Daughters of Kashmiri pandemic, the Consortium of National Law Admission Test (IIAT)” to be conducted by & Kashmir) has released the admission Migrant who otherwise have qualified for Universities has rescheduled the following: IGNTU & IITTM. Admission Test (AT) will be notification for various UG, PG, Integrated admissions. held on June 7, 2020 (Sunday) (tentative) from v The deadline for online applications - Saturday, programs & Ph.D. for the academic session 2020. v All selected students will be required to 10:00 am to 12:00pm at IITTM centres (i.e. April 25, 2020. Candidates can fill the online applications at the undergo medical examination by a Medical Gwalior, Bhubaneswar, Noida & Nellore). v The examination date - Sunday May 24, 2020, official website before the last date. Officer of the Institute and their admission is Interested candidates can apply online through from 3:00 to 5:00 PM. The candidate can visit website subject to being found medically fit for the official website www.iittm.ac.in If candidates face any difficulty with the Program.

58 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 59 EDUCATION NEWS v Maharashtra Public Service Commission îî List of Exam postponed in India due to coronavirus Recruitment 2020 Exam AIKS outbreak UPSC has postponed the Personality Tests Matrimonial Service Here is the list of Exams postponed in India (Interviews) of the candidates of Civil Services (Main) Exam slated to take place from March 23, v CBSE 10 and 12 Board Exams 2020: Class 10 2020, to April 03, 2020. and 12 board examinations which were Seeking Alliance for Our Daughter born 2/1/1991 at Jammu, B.Tech (IT) M. Tech (computer scheduled to take place between March 19 to îî Other Examination Authority also postpones Science ) Presently Working as Assistant Professor In Engineering College (NCR). 31, have been postponed. The board will notify Examination Previously Worked At MNC Cognizant Pune. Interested May please send Tekni / Kulwali on the new dates after March 31. Mob/What's App- 9419209499 v Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) vvvvv v ICSE Class 10 and 12 Board Exams: CISCE has postpones CET postponed its ongoing board exams of class We are looking for MEDICO MATCH with MD/MS/DN working in DELHI – NCR match 10th and 12th from March 19 till March 31. v Revised time table for CET-2020 will be posted on KEA website http://kea.kar.nic.in for our Daughter, beautiful & tall , Born-June 87 / Ht.- 167 Cm qualified as MD in Obs. & v Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2020 v Gynae. & Specialization in IVF & working as IVF Consultant with Hospital in GURGAON. April: The JEE Mains examination slated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Interested may please contact on e-mail at: [email protected] Mob. +91 (GGSIPU) extends last date of Registration for take place on April 05, 2020, has also been 9873452557 / 9414012557. postponed. 2020 Admission till 17th April 2020 for Common Entrance Test (CET) / Merit- based/ vvvvv v NIOS: NIOS or National Institute of Open Schooling has postponed secondary and senior National Level Test Candidates. CET 2020 will Looking for a Suitable Match for our Son Born on 13th July 1991, 11.40 AM at Jammu. secondary examination till March 31. be held between 20th - 30th May 2020. Kindly Parents are presently living in Roop Nagar, Jammu. Height 5’11”, Qualified as BE in visit the university website (www.ipu.ac.in) Computer Science. Working as Application Developer in Dhyey Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. v Bihar D.El.Ed. Joint Entrance Exam 2020: regularly for further updation. Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has at Vadodara, Gujrat. Interested may contact on MB- 941914151, Email id: postponed its Bihar D.El.Ed joint entrance v NEET (UG) May 2020 examination scheduled [email protected] for Tekni & Biodata. exam 2020 that was scheduled for March 28 to be held on the 3rd May 2020. vvvvv v v BSEH Haryana Board 10th, 12th Exams 2020 : The new date will be announced later on after Seeking suitable alliance for our son, born at Srinagar on 23rd July, 1988 at 11.59 AM, 173 The Board of School Education, Haryana assessing the situation. CMS. He is pursuing his own business at Valsad, Gujarat having a decent annual income in (BSEH) has postponed BSEH class 10 and 12 v University of Allahabad administration has exams remaining exams which were scheduled seven figures. The family is currently based in Faridabad. 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60 NAAD îî APRIL 2020 Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) Vaisakha-Jyeshta 2077 / 5096 (Saptarishi) VOL. XXX l NO. 04 61 EDUCATION NEWS v Maharashtra Public Service Commission îî List of Exam postponed in India due to coronavirus Recruitment 2020 Exam AIKS outbreak UPSC has postponed the Personality Tests Matrimonial Service Here is the list of Exams postponed in India (Interviews) of the candidates of Civil Services (Main) Exam slated to take place from March 23, v CBSE 10 and 12 Board Exams 2020: Class 10 2020, to April 03, 2020. and 12 board examinations which were Seeking Alliance for Our Daughter born 2/1/1991 at Jammu, B.Tech (IT) M. Tech (computer scheduled to take place between March 19 to îî Other Examination Authority also postpones Science ) Presently Working as Assistant Professor In Engineering College (NCR). 31, have been postponed. The board will notify Examination Previously Worked At MNC Cognizant Pune. Interested May please send Tekni / Kulwali on the new dates after March 31. Mob/What's App- 9419209499 v Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) vvvvv v ICSE Class 10 and 12 Board Exams: CISCE has postpones CET postponed its ongoing board exams of class We are looking for MEDICO MATCH with MD/MS/DN working in DELHI – NCR match 10th and 12th from March 19 till March 31. v Revised time table for CET-2020 will be posted on KEA website http://kea.kar.nic.in for our Daughter, beautiful & tall , Born-June 87 / Ht.- 167 Cm qualified as MD in Obs. & v Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2020 v Gynae. & Specialization in IVF & working as IVF Consultant with Hospital in GURGAON. April: The JEE Mains examination slated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Interested may please contact on e-mail at: [email protected] Mob. +91 (GGSIPU) extends last date of Registration for take place on April 05, 2020, has also been 9873452557 / 9414012557. postponed. 2020 Admission till 17th April 2020 for Common Entrance Test (CET) / Merit- based/ vvvvv v NIOS: NIOS or National Institute of Open Schooling has postponed secondary and senior National Level Test Candidates. CET 2020 will Looking for a Suitable Match for our Son Born on 13th July 1991, 11.40 AM at Jammu. secondary examination till March 31. be held between 20th - 30th May 2020. Kindly Parents are presently living in Roop Nagar, Jammu. Height 5’11”, Qualified as BE in visit the university website (www.ipu.ac.in) Computer Science. Working as Application Developer in Dhyey Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. v Bihar D.El.Ed. Joint Entrance Exam 2020: regularly for further updation. Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has at Vadodara, Gujrat. Interested may contact on MB- 941914151, Email id: postponed its Bihar D.El.Ed joint entrance v NEET (UG) May 2020 examination scheduled [email protected] for Tekni & Biodata. exam 2020 that was scheduled for March 28 to be held on the 3rd May 2020. vvvvv v v BSEH Haryana Board 10th, 12th Exams 2020 : The new date will be announced later on after Seeking suitable alliance for our son, born at Srinagar on 23rd July, 1988 at 11.59 AM, 173 The Board of School Education, Haryana assessing the situation. CMS. He is pursuing his own business at Valsad, Gujarat having a decent annual income in (BSEH) has postponed BSEH class 10 and 12 v University of Allahabad administration has exams remaining exams which were scheduled seven figures. The family is currently based in Faridabad. Interested may please contact for decided to postpone the admission process till from March 19 to 31 further details on email: [email protected] or Mobile/WhatsApp: 9810847376 further notice. vvvvv v MAH MCA CET 2020 Exam: The Maharashtra v Punjab University Chandigarh PUCET UG MCA CET 2020 exam that was scheduled for Suitable alliance invited for our son Akshit, born 10 December 1991, 1410hrs at Jammu, March 28 has been postponed to march 30 Last date of registration for admission to Height 166cms, B. Tech (software Engineering) from Delhi College of Engineering, MS/PhD B.Pharm and B.Sc (Hons.) has been extended in Electrical Engineering from USA, Presently Working With Intel Oregon, USA, Interested v GUJCET 2020 : Gujarat Secondary and Higher upto May 04, 2020. Education Board (GSEB), Gandhinagar has may please Contact Bharat Peer mail Id - [email protected]/8146625401, announced the postponement of GUJCET v Visit www.cetug.puchd.ac.in for updates Anita peer / 9872967824 2020. 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