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Vol. IV, No. 4 Official Organ of KPA, Mumbai July-August 2007

60 years Of Indepen- dence - 17 Years of Exile

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Official organ of g Message from the President Kashmiri Pandits' Association, Mumbai v Between Ourselves (Regd. Charitable Trust. Regn. No: A-2815-BOM) - M. L. Mattoo Page 3 E.Mail: [email protected] g Editorial ☯☯ v 'här-van' - A New Star - P.N.Wali Page 4 Editorial Board g Reaching Out v Track & Truth Editor-in-Chief : P. N. Wali - S.P.Kachru Page 6 Executive Editor : J. L. Manwati g Poetry Coordinating Editor : M. K. Raina v Pious Pilgrimage Members : T.N.Bhan - Dr. Roshan Saraf Page 7 g Book Review Basanti Raina v Pt. Vidya Lal Kaul's Kuliyaat-e-Raaz S. P. Kachru - Prof. R.N.Bhat Page 8 Consulting Editor : J.N.Raina (Pune) g From the Pages of History Sp. Correspondent : Vivek Raina, Jammu v Kashmir & Central Asia - 2 - Dr. Satish Ganjoo Page 10 Webmaster : Sunil Fotedar, USA g A Peep into the Past v Return of the Brahmin - 5 - P.L.Zutshi Page 13 Milchar Development Committee g A Peep into the Past Surinder Wazir, Basanti Raina, v Revisiting Kashmir - 2 - P.L.Raina Page 15 S.P.Kachru, Sunil Kher, Neena Kher, g Know the Facts Vinod Razdan v Shankaracharya Hill - Pawan Durani Page 17 Yearly Subscription Rs. 200 g Viewpoint Life-time Subscription Rs. 2000 v Pandits: A Moment of Introspection - Dr. K.N.Pandita Page 19 Advertisement Tariff g Short Story v Who Cares? Matrimonial (upto 50 words)Rs. 100 - T.N.Dhar 'Kundan' Page 23 Each Extra word Rs. 5 g Arjan Div - An Unknown Hero Back Cover Rs. 1500 - Kamal Hak Page 27 Back Inside Cover Rs. 1000 g Book Review v The Ugly Kashmiri Inside Page Rs. 750 - Ravinder K. Mattoo Page 29 Inside Half Page Rs. 500 g HçámlçkçÀ mçcççÇ#çç v çÆyçcçuçç jÌCçç kç=Àlç `uçuç Ðço cçíjçÇ vç]pçj cçW' Views expressed in the signed - jncççvç jçnçÇ Page 31 articles are not necessarily those of the g kçÀçJ³ç Kashmiri Pandits' Association v Mçyçvç@c³ç Mçônpççj or Milchar. - ìçÇ.Svç.oj `kçáÀvovç' Page 34 v Articles can also be e-mailed to: kçw³çç sámç yçò æsçb[çvç? - [ç. yççÇ.kçíÀ.cççí]pçç Page 35 [email protected] g Biradari News Page 36

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 02 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Message from the President - M.L.Mattoo N Between Ourselves

amaskar, which requires lot of care AIKS - The agenda for Jammu: at the time of water N KPA could not be represented proofing procedure. at AIKS executive & general meetings at Some more donors Jammu between 17th and 19th August as have come forward and I was down with a fractured leg. our sincere thanks to all However at Jammu, one of the major of them. events was relaunch of Martand of 1. Swami Laxmanjoo yesteryear organized by All State Trust (Rs.50000-1st installment). Kashmiri Pandits Conference, Jammu, 2. Smt. Ratan Rani Fotedar (Rs.2000) through the hands of Shri M K Kaw, I humbly request you all to come forward President AIKS. KPA has already with your donations and help us realize conveyed their good this great dream. wishes to Shri Amar Nath Kharghar Project Term of present Board of Vaishnavi and Shri Hira is calling you. Trustees is already over on Lal Chatta for this long Please send your 1st April 2007 and fresh awaited newspaper. election for new BOT Another major point for donation cheques members will be held in discussion was the immediately the month of October, floating of a new political 2007. Due intimations will party. This suggestion has been hanging follow and my earnest appeal to Biradari fire since Kolkata meeting. Some members would be to come forward as individuals were thinking that talking to voluntary successors to complete the a few individuals would have been stupendous task of Khargar Project enough to meet their ends, ignoring some which is in hand today. of the oldest and important affiliates of AIKS. In this regard, KPA Mumbai sent Launch of ‘härvan’ - the net-journal their views through e-mails including the of Project ZAAN : last one on 10.08.2007 to President & KPA congratulates Shri Maharaj Krishen Gen. Secretary AIKS disagreeing with the Raina, our Editor ‘Milchar’ for launching whole issue. This note is separately Project Zaan’s net journal ‘härvan’ on published in this issue. 15th August, 2007. It is a trilingual magazine dedicated to Kashmir and Khargar Project: Kashmiris. The journal is edited by Shri As on today our activity has been to M.K.Raina along with Shri T.N.Dhar as see how this project comes up. By the its Consulting Editor. It may be noted time you receive this issue, we would that 'här-van' is the first KP net-journal have reached laying of 1st floor slab and to be launched to reach KP readers also proceeded to casting of Lift Well, internationally. dd July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 03 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Editorial - P.N.Wali N ‘härvan’ - A New Star

his independence day, a new of AIKS has also been star ‘härvan’ has appeared in around intermittently T the journalistic horizon of The most successful Kashmiri Pundits. Question in circulation and arises as to what is new about it. Much. financial standing has Kasmiri Pundits have already a been Koshur Samachar. number of journals being published from In the early days of various centers. I suppose the wilderness of earliest was published from Project Zaan a displaced community Lukhnow more than a century people started looking for cue back (Bahar-e-Kashmir). In was meant as to what is happening. They Kashmir, we lived with to bring out looked to Samachar. Its Martand for decades. To what matrimonial became a big compete with it Joyti was draw when the traditional published in sixties and Kashmir is channels of seeking alliances seventies. The KP Diaspora and what it where lost. At one stage even immediately after its content tended towards independence created sizable meant to be excellence till sycophancy pockets of KPs in places like a Kashmiri. took away some of its Jammu, Delhi, Mumbai etc. glamour. These pockets of the 'här-van' will Running a journal is time community felt the need to do it on consuming and a costly communicate with each other, proposition. Very few are able also relate themselves to their bigger to generate fund enough origin. Thus came publications canvas. sustain themselves like like Milchar from Mumbai, Koshur Samachar does. Most Koshur Samachar from Delhi, Vitasta often issuing periodical is a labour of love from Kolkata, Khirbhawani Times from of some devoted guys and obviously there Jammu, etc. Post exodus, many more is no monitory compensation. When have come from places like Chandigarh, such persons are overtaken by their own Faridabad and others, as the problems and preoccupations, the concentration of the community reached publication gets effected. Thy are not able a critical mass at such places. The most to maintain schedules. The quality notable and perhaps also successful of suffers. Then there is the problems of these have been Aalav from Bangalore logistics like composing, proof reading, for the last few years. A super journalist printing, address labeling, franking and –Shri R K Mattoo, who is its editor and dispatch. These make sustaining a also the president of association in publication a daunting task. Banglore, blesses it. The official organ In light of the above 'här-van' is new

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 04 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR in concept and design. It is an E- magazine. It comes to you through your They Left Us E-mail, provided you have registered your mail address with them. There are no charges for registration. It employs Shri Babuji Jialal Kaul, father of the latest information technology in Shri D.B.Kaul, originally resident of Bana Mohalla, Narpirastan, reaching you irrespective of what part of Srinagar, Kashmir, and resident of the globe you happen to be, as long as A3/6/1, Millennium Towers, Sector- you have access to a computer. When 9, Sanpada, Navi Mumbai, left for issuing a normal magazine we are not his heavenly abode on 12th July sure what interests a particular reader, 2007. if any. In an E-magazine the reader has the choice in downloading only that, Shri Pearey Lal Mathu, Retired Dy. which interests him. He can choose the Director of Industries, J&K State type size that suits him (Son of Late Pt. Anand Joo Mathu) Conceptually, 'här-van' is an originally resident of Tankipora, extension of the Project Zaan earlier Srinagar left for his heavenly abode undertaken. Project Zaan was meant to at 166-H, Durga Nagar, Talab Tillo, bring out what Kashmir is and what it Jammu on 25th July, 2007. meant to be a Kashmiri. 'här-van' will Arun Kaul, the noted Kashmiri film do it on bigger canvas. It will therefore maker and screenplay writer and deal with all aspects of our culture KPA life member, left for his viewed through geography, history, heavenly abode in New Delhi on 21st traditions, customs, literature (poetry, July 2007 after prolonged illness. prose, drama etc) and philosophy. We wish the new venture all success. Capt. Piyarelal Wazir (member of We feel they will supplement what KPA) husband of Smt. Piyari, son of Milchar itself is enduring to do. kk Late Balbadar Wazir, brother of Shri Omkar Nath, Mohan Lal, Maharaj Kishen, Daya Kishen, Smt Tosha Kashmiri Nursery Raina and Father of Rajiv & Rajesh Rhyme passed away suddenly on 22nd July 2007 at his Lokhandwala residence. JçoJçòçÆvç iççôyçájçí KPA conveys its deep condolences DççôMç cççí $ççJç to the bereaved families. kçÀçJçvç $çç@Jçò³ç jd³çkçÀò Dç[ HççJç Kharghar Donations Dç@[ nvç LçJç ®çbomç mJç Kçô Jçbomç Swami Laxmanjoo Trust 1st installment - Rs.50000 Dç[ nvç LçJç Dçç@çÆuçmç Smt. Ratan Rani Fotedar mJç Kçô jd³çlçòkçÀç@çÆuçmç Rs.2000

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 05 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Reaching Out - S.P.Kachru N Track & Truth

ne who answers a point even knowledge that truth before having heard, brings becomes questionable O embarrassment of folly to whenever it becomes a himself. That any truthful political issue, at that information & knowledge are point one is surely prone unmistakable key to success is well to add that manipulation known to all. Whenever someone tries of truth, the systematic to bypass the icy terrain of semi-truths, dissemination of semi- he does not find success in conclusion. truths or even malicious lies, does not Truth, therefore, is like an indestructible only open the less pretty side of politics plant, one may try to bury it under a to public view, notwithstanding the fact rock but it is bound to prevail when the that politics is not considered to be most time comes. Education, upbringing and reputable of occupations in our country the degree of resultant acceptance of by the vast majority. Even the so called inter-personal values and concepts yellow press and of course the surely make up a major part of the true unavoidable multiplicity of TV channels are already well known for the Education, upbringing and the degree of discrepancy between their highly resultant acceptance of inter-personal profitable sensational headlines, values and concepts surely make up a breaking news, trumped campaigns, major part of the true character that we sting operations and behind the facade display in day to day life. facts. character that we display in day to day The moral stature of a Mahatma life. But none of us is in anyway immune Gandhi may be light-years away from to surprises since never may the such business practices but it would difficulties and imponderability nevertheless be much more encountered in the search for truth recommendable starting point for more discourage us from getting to the bottom peaceful future. Gandhi ji is known to of the obscure, in order to avoid falling have stated that without truth it is foul of any deception or illusion. The impossible to apply any principles or closer we approach the truth, all the regulations in one’s life, which may more thoroughly do we lay foundations further mean to convey that without for a well established verdict, a formal truth there can be no peace. Truth is decision on the next turn to take. That not made up of proofs but in reduction may apply to interpersonal relationships towards eventual simplicity. We may not too, in the attempt to solve the all finally succeed in that quest but as professional problems or even to forming that popular saying reminds us "Truth an opinion on political issues which may may go under now and again but never seem vital to our future. It is common will it drown." qq July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 06 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Poetry - Dr. Roshan Saraf Pious Pilgrimage

With an urge to see the Lord in His cave, I started the holy pilgrimage in rave, Overpowering the physical hesitations with a craving wave. Yes, I Knew the obstacles, the hurdles and the zig, Still the passion to see the pious abode of the immortal king, Erupted, oozed and nourished my skeletal rig. Believe me; a voice from somewhere ringed my ear, I looked in for the source through land and air, But no image, no clue of the sound from anywhere. I sat on the floor mute and dumb, Trying to clear my illusions, delusions with harsh rub, But the voices echoed again and this time with a snub. Words were clear and loud - “What abode is your search”? I am always within your cave, seated right there for your research, Meditate, transcendent within your inner waves without any flaw or lurch. In the mountain caves I can melt because of high rise, Of human sins, mad rush of greed in lust and scoundrels in disguise, I feel uncomfortable in such a mushy society, inhuman and enormous in size. If you are a pious piety, walk over the rash rains of ignorance, Cross the gruesome glaciers of your illusions and arrogance, Look for the “live beauty of Shiva” with a sacred conscience. I am right there winter and summer, not frozen but live every time, Correspond through spiritual and devotional thought in rhythm and rhyme. I will illuminate your darkness with a radiant crescent, milky and lime.

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 07 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Book Review - Prof. R.N.Bhat (BHU) N ‘Kuliyat-e-Raaz’

Book : Kulyat-I-Raaz volume comprises (Kashmiri & Urdu) nearly fifty Ghazals, Author : Pandit Vidyalal over twenty Nazams in Koul ‘Raaz’. Price : Price Urdu and nearly thirty Rs. 125/ pp. 160. Bhajans, Nazams and Ghazals in Kashmiri. Kulyaat-I- There is a prose piece Raaz is a in Urdu at the end collection of Urdu which he wrote to Mama Sahab, the Qazi Ghazals and Kashmiri of his native village on 22nd September, poetry by Pandit Vidyalal 1990 during the first year of Koul ‘Raaz’ written over a Displacement. The poetic creations are period of more than seventy years. Born a vivid reflection of Papaji’s (Raaz in 1912 at Kuloosa, Bandipora, Kashmir, Sahab’s) depth of understanding and Raaz and his only brother were brought expanse of observation. His control over up by their young widowed mother with the twin languages is superb. The reader great tribulation and suffering. There takes deep breaths frequently to grasp was scarcity all around him. As a young and reach out to the imagery, symbolism kid he had to work as a school watchman pervading in each creation. There are at night to earn and thereby continue poems of mundane love, of the his studies. In 1946 he obtained first enchanting bounty of Kashmir, class in ‘Adiib Fazil’ from the then Punjab devotional songs; one gets transfixed. University. With a natural flavour and a Some instances are: fertile, creative mind Raaz began penning down his literary pieces at a very young 1. Taaza tar taabanda tar tere lahu se age. The present collection is just a hai jahan, Garam rakhne ke liye fraction of what he wrote all these years bakhsha gaya tujh ko shabaab for the displacement of 1990 robbed him 2. surat-e gul tamam umra kaantuun of significant number of his very valuable men hi basar huii, samjhe shagufatagi creations. His reluctance to get his work jise lakht lakht hai jigar published delayed its appearance but his gar ye shab se dhul saken, daaman-e sons and daughter finally succeeded in tar ke daagh kuch, ab yahi chand katre persuading him to agree. His Professor hain, bas mera zaadi safar son Ashok Kaul arranged to bring it out 3. nazar miithi-miithi adaa pyaari-pyaari from Varanasi as a token of their (sons ye aadabe mahfil sikhaye hain kis ne & daughter) love and esteem on their 4. ye des thagon kaa hai, mumkin hai Papaji’s 96th birthday. With a preface by nahin raahat, jiine kaa mazaa kya hai Dr.Salman Raghib and a foreword by his naa paida hui ulfat allustrious son Professor Ashok Kaul, the insaan banaa vahshi… July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 08 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR chal duur chalen hamdam, is des ko hai?… ab main huun aur yahaan ki tapti tyagen ham. huyi galiyaan…aarzuu hai ki maut ke Kashmiri poetry, devotional as well pahle ek baar apne watan ‘kashmir’ ko love songs, is musical and melodious. jii bhar ke dekh luun, uunche uunche Some verses: pahadon ki marmari chotiyon aur 1. Thavas pyaalI bEry bEry yiyam naa sarsabz-o shaadaab ghatiyon ki sair su salay karuun…meri khwahish hai ki zindagi Panun paan pEErith bI karhas havalay ke aakhri din apne aabaayi gaaun men … pholith aav gulaalI dosan peTh, vajan hii kat jaayen, sach puuchiye zindaa manz, dilas dag kami kuy roTuth kya rahne kii zamaanat chahata huun, kya malaalay mil sakti hai? 2. zItsI tI lEhar paanIvEEny, naalImEty Gariib aldayaar naachiiz kyah karaan, dur tI kosam haraan, maay (Vidyalal Kaul) tI lool bEEgraan lll graavi graavI kyah karaan, zItsI tI lEhar paanIvEEny 3. husun paanay tshaayi ruuzith loolu News Makers kuy samanI kya, maslahat cha gardishas manz vantI natI paymanI kyah paan zaalun bEd kathaa chhanI yii magar andeshi chum, gath kErith nuuras pazii sEErii banan parvaanI kya vuzImalan hund raks Diinshith hoosh Dol sahib dilan… 4. sharadaa kan thaav myanen naadan, pEEry pEEry lagye mEEj tsarnan Amita Fotedar (Kaul) manI Eenas kaastam khay, doy tI dIy tsalem ganem pray… Mrs. Amita Fotedar (Kaul), daughter The prose piece at the end of the of Dr. B.K.Fotedar and wife of Shri volume is a historic document which was Vishal Kaul of Jammu has been addressed to the Qazi of his village and awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) his childhood friend. Pandit Vidyalal in Environmental Sciences by the Kaul, a widely respected teacher of the Jammu University, Jammu. She area, writes, barely after spending the worked on the topic ‘Ecological first Hot Summer away from home, with Studies of River Sewa and its nostalgia, anguish, melancholy and catchment - District Kathua, J&K’ concern. At the ripe age of 80 years he under the supervision of Dr. Anil had been driven out of his home and he Kumar Raina, Head of the found himself helpless: Department of Environmental “apni jagah sochta huun ki aakhir log Sciences, University of Jammu. mujhe maaren ge kyon, main ne un ka kya bigara; gariibii men din kaate, dost- KPA congratulates Dr. Amita on o-ahbab kaa bharosa raha aur kadam her achievement. barhtaa gayaa. Meeraa kasuur kya July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 09 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR From the Pages of History - Satish Ganjoo Kashmir & Central Asia - Links & Legacies - 2

he people of Kashmir are said that there virtually cognizant and perspicacious. remained only eleven T They established a separate Hindu families in identity for themselves since Kashmir. Sultan ancient times.During the reign of Timur Sikander flattered in Samarqand, close relations were himself that he had maintained between Kashmir and that extirpated Hinduism country. The policy of Timur towards from the Valley. Kashmir was quite contrary to what it Whatever was left, got destroyed during was towards India. In A.D. 1389 Timur the tyrannical and oppressive rule of sacked Delhi, but at the same time he Aurangzeb (A.D. 1658-A.D. 1707) and sent two envoys alongwith presents to the Afghans (A.D. 1753-A.D. 1819).Now the ruler of Kshmir, Sultan Sikander. the crimes of genocide in Kashmir have Both the rulers had great mental affinity forced the extirpation of half a million and were sworn enemies of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley .Sultan Sultan Sikander- the Iconoclast, destroyed the grand and old temples in the Valley; and used their plinths and friezes for raising mosques. The stones and bricks which once configuarated marvelous and splendid temples or monasteries, now hold up mosques.

Hinduism. Sultan Sikander- the Zainul Abidin of Kashmir (A.D.1420- Iconoclast, destroyed the grand and old A.D.1470) made a request to the ruler of temples in the Valley; and used their Samarqand, Mirza Shah Rukh (A.D. plinths and friezes for raising mosques. 1405-A.D. 1447) to send men and The stones and bricks which once literary works. Contemporary sources configuarated marvelous and splendid reveal that gifts from the different parts temples or monasteries, now hold up of Central Asia to the Sultan of Kashmir mosques. Hindus were offered three included the Arab horses, Bectrian choices-death, exile or conversion. Some camels, mules, dromendaries and of them fled Kashmir, many were artifacts. The great monarch responded executed and most of them were to this friendly gesture by sending converted to Islam. In fact, there was saffron, paper, musk, rose scent, shawls mass conversion. About seven maunds etc. to different neighbouring kingdoms. of sacred thread of the massacred Scholars from Kashmir, like Shaikh Brahmans were burnt. The sacred books Yakub Sarfi, visited various places of of Buddhism and Hinduism were either learning in Central Asia such as destroyed or thrown into Dal Lake. It is Khurasan, Bukhara and Samarqand. July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 10 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR The great king, Sultan Zainul Abidin’s medieval Kashmir borrowed much from chief glory was his tolerance towards his Central Asia. Brick work had become Hindu subjects. He manifested every special feature and stone was replaced desire to repair the wrongs inflicted on by timber. Jamia Masjid, Khangah-i- the Hindus by his father, Sultan Mulla, Mausoleum of Zainul Abidin’s Sikander. Zainul Abidin fostered the mother and Mosque of Madin Sahib in study of Hindu literature and Srinagar are specific specimens of philosophy. He also got Mahabharata architecture.The fascinating Valley of and Rajatarangini translated into Kashmir has great social and cultural Persian language.Scholars, who crept affinity with Central Asia. Now after the into the Valley of Kashmir from Bukhara crumbling down of Soviet empire, this - the holy city of Muslims in the medieval traditional relationship can provide a times, found Kashmir as the best place commendable base and even open new to propagate Islam. Kashmir, which once vistas of mutual reciprocity between was a great seat of Buddhism & Saivism, India and the Central Asian became the center of Islamic states.NOTES:-1.”Khanates” were the studies.With the influx of Muslims in this principalities of Central Asia ruled by miraculous Valley, the trade & commerce “Khans” – the title of rulers and officials of Kashmir received tremendous boost. in the 19th century. These Khanates Home industries of Bukhara and included Bukhara, Khiva and Khoqand. Samarqand-stone polishing, stone Now these territories contour cutting, bottle making, window cutting Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and gold beating; were introduced in the Kirghizia and Kazakhistan. There is also Valley. The merchants from Kashmir, the Chinese part of Central Asia- alongwith their merchandise, used to Sinkiang.2. “Hindukush” is formed of proceed to Yarkand, Kashgar, two parts: Hindu + Kush. “Kush” is the Samarqand and then Bukhara. Silk, later from of “Koff” of old Persian from musk, carpets, hides, herbs and paper which we have got “kooh” in lranian and were the chief exports to Khurasan from “koh” in Indian prononciation. Thus the Kashmir. The art of paper-making came word means Hindu koh or Indian to Samarqand from China, and then it Mountain, which divide India from was introduced in Kashmir. Carpet Central Asia including Afghanistan. The weavers from different parts of Central earlier reference to the range of Asia were welcomed in the Valley. These mountains is to be found in Metrologica merchants and artisans made a deep of Aristotle under the name Parnasos. impact on the society of Kashmir. The After the Alexander’s invasion of India cultural ties were strengthened. The in 326 B.C., the Greeks called it commercial relations were also establish Paropamisus and then as Indian with Kashgar & Yarkand, but there were Caucasus.IBn Batuta, who crossed the little cultural intercourses with these mountain range in A.D. 1334 on his principalities. The shawl & silk journey of India says that the name industries of Kashmir depended much Hindu-Kush or Hindu-Killer is derived on the raw material imported from from the fact that so many of Indian Kashgar and Tibet.Architecture of slaves died on the passage of this July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 11 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR mountain because of severe cold and Ormazd created man to aid Him, and snowfall. These slaves were being taken finally the good kingdom will be away by the Arab Muslim invaders when attained.4.Heiun Tsang, also called Yuan they attacked India in A.D. 712 and after Chwang, was a Chinese Buddhist monk; then.3.Zoroastrianism was the religion who came to India in A.D.630 to collect of the Persians before their conversion the sacred Buddhist literature, stayed to Islam.It is traditionally derived from here for about 13 years. He also visited its great Prophet/Zoroaster (Zarathustra) Kashmir in search of truth and reality. and its sacred Iiterature is Zend-Avesta. He left a detailed account his The religion teaches that Ormazd, Lord observations on persons, places, of Light and Goodness, wars ceaselessly customs and manners of people. against Ahriman and the hosts of evil. kk

About the author Dr. Satish Ganjoo Dr Satish Ganjoo was born on May 1, 1. Afghanistan’s Struggle for 1956, to Shree Omkarnath Ganjoo Resurgence and Smt Sheela Ganjoo in the Saffron 2. Soviet Afghan Relations Valley of Kashmir. He obtained the 3. Kashmir Politics coveted academic degrees of M.Phil 4. Muslim Freedom Fighters of India (1983) and Ph.D (1987) in Modern 5. Economics System in Islam History and International Relations 6. Glimpses of Islamic World from the University of Kashmir. He 7. Prophet Muhammad held the distinguished faculty position 8. Wailing Shadows in Kashmir in Govt. Degree College, Baramulla 9. Dictionary of History (Kashmir), Centre for Advance Study Besides Dr. Ganjoo was involved in Education and Technology, in different interdisciplinary research Srinagar (Kmr), CASET Post Graduate projects, participated in several Evening College, Srinagar (Kmr) and seminars and wrote about sixteen the Centre of Central Asian Studies, research papers. His name was University of Kashmir. Now he is recommended for the Soviet Land working as Senior Faculty Member at Nehru Award (1991) and received a the Post Graduate Dept. of History, number of decorations from Ramgarhia College Phagwra (Pb), with prestigious NGOs - Rashtriya Gaurav the additional charge of the Dept. of Award (2004), Best Citizen of India Computer Sciences and Information Award (2005), Vijay Shree Award Technology. (2005). Dr. Ganjoo developed the excellent Dr. Ganjoo is the member of the potential for research and published Arts & Social Sciences Faculty, Guru a number of books on diverse topics Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and of history, politics, international the life–member of the Kashmir relations and Islamic studies. His Education Culture and Science widely acknowledged books include : Society. jj

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 12 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR A Peep into the Past - P.L.Zutshi N Return of the Brahmin - 5

he ‘Mahabarat-Yudd’ is inferred it is an intrinsic system to have been an event, which in the ‘visible invisible’ T has taken place towards the end syndrome of objective of ‘ Dwaper- Yug’ and the world in which nothing beginning of ‘ Kali-Yug’. It is an event stands untouched, therefore about five thousand unguided, years+ or the beginning of Iron uncontrolled or Any Age { {Late-Holocene}. unobserved by In Kashmir, Vitastians i.e. – exercise of its Creator. What we may define a unique assimilation of will on the as God, it is an omnipotent, Shardian-Saraswat Brahmin part of the omniscient and omnipresent population was an established Creator or entity. An integral definition thus civilization. They had by now its brings God very close to humans observed the constellations and prototype who enjoy the unique power of observed also the Great Bear introspectiveness. It involves the (Sapt Rishi ] and perhaps known Humans and God equally. Human the implication of pole star. Being introspective, Man is The installation of Being is ever in state of search. It is geometrically shaped ‘Tulmul bound to because he is given to play Spring’ was in commemoration turn into second fiddle in the equation of of ‘Sapt-Rishi Samwat’ the Sapt- seed and creation. Man is but a Creator Rishi calendar. The Rig-Vedic hence an too, and he knows it well. The hymns were already making the event in ‘chick-egg’ riddle may not need vibes. Kashmiri Brahmin, as any complicated explanation. Creation. introduced and discussed by Man created the ‘God Figure’ now turns out to be a Time who out of itself had created the distinguished breed of men – automation suniverse and His prototype the women of yester years. They is thus Man. In this riddle it hardly love, worship emulate the also a matters whether the ‘egg’ or the Nature. Their established belief function ‘chick’, each is for the other and has been universal oneness. In of the not without. Further the ‘Time’ this kind of precept every thing as a factor in the equation of Cosmic melts down to integral creation, has a unique brotherhood where the Nature Will. obligation, in which the Creation was a great support – rather the has to be a ‘singular event’. only support. To these people by now Life Therefore the ‘riddle’ looses importance was never an unexplained phenomenon. if any. Subsequently to the Creation the God is assumed to create, not objective world is set on a long and an without being part of its Creation. Thus evolving journey and ‘series of events’. July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 13 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR One of these events is the cause of Text of E-mail dt. 10 August 2007 human 'civilization', which, S. Freud from M.L.Mattoo, President, KPA, says in his words, “began the first time, Mumbai to Shri M.K. Kaw, President, when an angry person cast a ‘word’ AIKS, New Delhi regarding instead of a stone”. Rudhra- the first of formation of political party. the Lords in the Indian mythology briefly Dear Shri Kaw, appears to resemble this Freudian Man, Kindly refer to my e-mails dated Ist the torchbearer of human civilization. Jan. 2007 and 9th Jan. 2007 Exactly then, the Brahmin from the addressed to your good self, Shri S. Indus valley—Shardian stock of Kashmir Dudda and Shri Vijay Saqi. stands as yet another earliest witness This is to convey to you once again to this dateless event. our resentment and total rejection Rudhra is initially sighted as the one of the proposal regarding the look- alike tribal Naga Highlander formation of a K.P. Political party by occupying the snowy peaks of Nanga some members of AIKS. I have Parbhat (could be a deformation of Nanga objected to the proposal at Kolkata Parbhat). Anger is reflected in very attire on 25/26th Dec 2006 and I once of otherwise demure Rudhra. It could be again reiterate today that KPA a chieftain who controls and is a Mumbai, the oldest affiliate and I as protector too. The Brahmin from Vice President AIKS (Western zone) and member political affairs Kashmir is thus obsessively nostalgic committee that we should take about its Creator. The intimacy is very cognizance of Jaipur Resolution and special. It is rather an affair. If called do not succumb to overtures of some upon to enunciate, the Brahmin calls it members whosoever they are. by Shaivism. It is a term meant to negate Moreover as far as Kolkata any dual meaning to the ‘Creator- proposal is concerned, we also Creation’ equate. That the seed holds the protest on the basis that the affiliates tree is a sanatan expression and hence were not given any mandatory calls for no deliberation. The great belief advance notice in the agenda. Hence that matter gets energized into form in absence of any proper notice, the through the Creator’s will is as profound entire process becomes illegal thus as the self-awareness. irrelevant. Such a matter in this Any exercise of will on the part of the manner of handling may create legal Creator or its prototype the Human Being implication in future. Kindly put this is bound to turn into seed and hence an letter in your oncoming JAMMU event in Creation. Time automation is AGM. I am sorry I can not present thus also a function of the Cosmic Will. myself personally as I have become Its presiding deity is remembered and immobile due to an accident to my left leg. propitiated as ‘Lord Shiva’. These Thanking you, musings enliven this Brahmin for a M.L.Mattoo lifetime, careless and careful to exercise President, KPA, Mumbai his conscious. VP, AIKS, New Delhi & Member vv Political Affairs Committee, AIKS

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 14 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Remembering Roots - P.L.Raina Revisiting Kashmir after 17 years The way ahead - 2 Ashrams : commissioned recently e could get time to visit Ishber has been diverted to W Ashram near Nishat and Kashmir as there are no Ramakrishna Ashram near transmission lines for Shali store. Both the Ashrams are well transfer of power to other kept with CRP personal posted there. parts of India. Many new Ramakrishna Ashram has added a new English medium schools guest house for its devotees and a large have come up including DPS. hall for serving food on special occasions The sad part of story is that Srinagar Pooja of Bhairwa at Ishber and Shiv linga city is heavily fortified, growth of city is at RK mission gave us great satisfaction. very erratic with no planned A few days back Shri Shri Ravi Shanker development, roads are narrow even in Ji prayed at Ishber Ashram when he Rajbagh where land prices range plus was on a brief visit to Kashmir. one crore per kanal of land, Dal Lake Development works : has shrunk in size resulting in As a result of huge inflow of funds from overcrowding of houseboats, even River govt. and non govt. sources, Kashmir Jehlum has been reduced to a stream. looks different now. Right from airport The standing walls of burnt down one can see the change. Airport is a buildings are a reminder of the faded modern one which can handle about 20 glory of City. incoming and outgoing flights with peak Life in Kashmir : traffic flow of about 20000 passengers. Month of May when we visited Kashmir Srinagar city has doubled in area with is usually full of excitement with lot of constructions every where . Railway line tourists from India, which involves from Qazigund to Baramulla is nearing people of all walks of life to focus on doing completion. Additional bridges have been good business. Thus everybody seemed built on river Jehlum . To get an idea of to be praying to militants to hold guns development works there were just two for some time. While Muslims and Sikhs cement factories in 1990 producing are fully enshrined in Kashmir, the few hardly 600 tons of cement per day. At KPs (less than 5000) look like lost in present there are seven large and small wilderness. The prosperity of people is cement factories producing about 7000 very visible from the houses they live in, tons of cement per day and another four the number of cars they own, the dress large scale factories are under they wear and the food they eat at construction which will add about 6000 restaurants. tons per day. There are hardly any power Our Prospects of returning to cuts. All the power from Dulhasti power Kashmir : Under international laws, we project of Kistwar which was as aborigines of Kashmir, have a right July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 15 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR to settlement there. No solution to division of our territory will provide a Kashmir problem is possible without our better environment to both Hindus and right to settlement. Govt of India, State Muslims to grow side by side as has been Govt and even the Muslims of Kashmir demonstrated by Ambani Brothers after are aware of it. That is why we are offered they split the ancestral property. Our several packages which suit our long term strategy should be: politicians. At this time of history we a) Strengthen our roots where we are have to evolve our strategy and stick to living now by enriching our selves it even if it takes another 50 years or economically through business, taking more for acceptance up jobs which command influence and Our strategy : respect. We have to take following factors into b) Demand a package of settlement in a consideration to arrive at our decision: designated area in Kashmir which we 1) Living out of Muslim dominance in can call as our homeland. It may be given Kashmir has given us a strength of any name: Panun Kashmir, KP exploiting our talents to our capacities settlement area, KP reserve area. It which is not possible for us in present should be out of administrative control day Kashmir which is now a virtual of J&K state. I would suggest an area Islamic state. which starts from Verinag / Qazigund 2) All lands where we lived have been and extends upto Pahalgam as our area taken over by Muslims/Sikhs. Land of resettlement. Large parts of this area prices have gone up considerably. are still open which provide a scope for 3) All businesses, govt. jobs, bank jobs, proper planning of a modern city. airport jobs, school and college teaching Srinagar is only one hour journey from jobs are manned by Muslims Qazigund railway station . 4) The political atmosphere in Kashmir c) To achieve our long term goal we will not change. Kashmiri Muslims have should involve all sections of society in divided the valley into pockets of their it. If we could have a credible Think Tank influence based on religious sentiments, to guide our movement that would be economic interests, political aspirations excellent. i i etc. To keep their interests alive they have evolved one common strategy to keep India on the defensive by exploiting their nuisance value by raising the uçuçò JççKç slogans of autonomy, independence involvement of KMs in political future of ÒçòvçòJçáv³ççí uçÓkçÀvç sáKç Òçòvççvç Kashmir and so on . The least they expect is status quo of article 370 of Indian Hççvçmç sá³ç vçò içæsçvç kçÀvçvç~ constitution which they have çƳçLçò Hçç@þîç Hçápç çÆs vççìò kçÀòvççvç successfully used to create a Muslim State. Hççvçmç vçò HççíMççvç HçkçÀòcççôb[îç lçò kçÀvç~~ From the above it is very obvious that going to Kashmir as the govt. of India / i i J&K govt wants us, is out of question. A July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 16 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Know the Facts - Pawan Durani, Faridabad N Shankaracharya Hill

n the Web Site of Indira Gandhi Mohammedan origin... that the ancient National Centre for the Arts designation of the hill was Gopadari, is I (Govt Of India Organisation) the proved beyond all doubt... in Kalhana’s hill of Shankaracharya Temple chronicle”. Professor Sahebzada Ghulam is named as Takht-i-Suleiman. Hassan, author of Tarikhi Hassan Calling the Shankaracharya hill as (History of Kashmir) also confirms Koh-i-Sulaiman and ancient temple categorically that the name Kohi thereon as Takht-i-Sulaiman is a later Sulaiman is given to the hill by Muslims. day ruse started sometime in the 19th Fergusson, in his book History of Indian century by some fanatical Muslims of Architecture (page 282) says that the Kashmir to complete the process of temple on Gopadari (now

The original name of the Shankaracharya Hill was Gopadiri or Gopa hill, named after King Gopaditya. Islamisation of the historically known Shankaracharya) is one of the earliest places of Hindu worship in the Valley buildings in Kashmir. The tradition of and also to bury deep for ever the Hindu Abul Fazal’s time also distinctly past of Kashmir. It is in line with the attributes the temple to the time of King demolition of the then famous Hindu Gopaditya (369-309 B.C.). temple of Maharshi (Vishnu) and the 2. The original name of the Hill was erection thereon of a structure known Gopadiri or Gopa hill, named after King now as Jama Masjid, conversion of the Gopaditya. Mahakali Temple near Fateh Kadal, 3. The hillock, according to Tarikh-i- Srinagar into the present Shah-i- Hassan, (pp 394-496, Vol. II) and (Waqai Hamadan mosque, and the Kashmir of Mulla Ahmed was known Ekadasharudra (Shiva) temple in originally as Anjana and later as Jeth Khanyar, Srinagar into the Ziarat Dastgir Ludrak and the temple was built by King Sahib, not to speak of hundreds of Sandhiman of the Gonanda dynasty of temples throughout the Valley which Kashmir (471-536 Laukek Era), were earlier destroyed completely or corresponding to 2605-2540 B.C. He converted into mosques, ziarats and gave the name Jeshteshwara to the dargahs, during the Muslim rule in temple and the hillock came to be known Kashmir (14th to 18th century A.D.) as Sandhiman Parbat after the name of 1. The world famous Indologist and the King. According to Dr.Stein, archaeologist, Dr. Stein has said in his translator of Kalhana’s Rajatarangani, translation of Kalhana’s Rajatarangani King Gopaditya (369-309 B.C.) repaired (Page 43, Vol.II) that “the present name the temple and donated two villages, the of the hill meaning Solomon’s Throne present Gupkar and Buchhwara (Takht-i-Sulaiman) is undoubtedly of (Bhaksira Vatika) for the maintenance

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 17 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR of the temple. This time the hillock was at Durganag Temple Complex, carried given the name Gopadari or Gopa Hill. out some repairs to the temple. The This name and Jeshteshwara for the Maharaja of Indore electrified the temple temple prevailed till the Kashmiris during the forties of this century and dedicated the temple to the sweet installed a dazzling flash-light on its top, memory of Adi Shankaracharya, who making it conspicuous during the night visited Kashmir and stayed at the temple also. The temple was originally connected complex. This is confirmed by Tarikh-i- with Vitasta (Jhelum) near the temple of Hassan (pp.80-82, Vol.I), although there Godess Tripursundari on the right bank is some confusion about the dates of Adi of the river, now known as Shurahyaar Shankaracharya’s visit to Kashmir. (Shudash Dashyar) by a finely However, after the dedication, the temple sculptured stone stair overlooking the and hill came to be known as the present Badami Bagh Cantonment of Shankaracharya temple and hill after the Sonawar. This flight of steps was great sage and scholar from the south of dismantled by King Jehangir and the the country. After the first repairs to the stones were used by his queen, Nur temple carried out by King Gopaditya, Jehan, who built a huge mosque, known King Lalitaditya (697-734 A.D.) repaired as Pathar Masjid near Zaina Kadal in it. The original Shiva Lingam in the Srinagar. The mosque was never used temple, along with over 300 precious for prayers by Muslims (Sunnies) as it idols of gods and goddesses therein and had been built by a woman belonging to other structures and residential quarters the Shia sect. The temple was around the temple, were destroyed by approached via a bridle path from the Sultan Sikandar (the iconoclast), who Durganag Temple at the base of the ruled Kashmir between 1389 and 1413 hillock. This path was later electrified by A.D. King Zain-ul-Abedin (1420 to 1470 the Dharmarth Trust. In early seventies, A.D.) repaired the temple and its dome, however, when the Central government, which had been damaged by an at the persuasion of the State The Maharaja of Indore electrified the temple during the forties of this century and installed a dazzling flash-light on its top, making it conspicuous during the night also. earthquake, as a gesture of goodwill Government, put up the TV tower on the towards the Hindus of Kashmir, who had Dal Lake side of the hillock, a road was been persecuted by his father and constructed to connect the tower with grandfather. Sheikh Ghulam Mohi-ud- the lake near Nehru Park. Later, the din the Governor of Sikh ruler of Punjab Dharmarth Trust laid a flight of about (1841-1846 A.D.) also repaired the 599 chiselled stone-steps, with side walls temple in his own time. Later, Maharaja and landings, to connect the TV tower Ranbir Singh, the second Dogra ruler of with the temple. That way the temple was Kashmir repaired the temple once again lately approached both via the bridle and installed the present Lingam in it. path starting from Darganag temple and Later, a saint from Nepal and Swami Shiv via the TV tower road. Rattan Gir Saraswati, who had his seat ee July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 18 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Viewpoint - Dr. K.N.Pandita Pandits: A Moment of Introspection

have been in the thick of our whatever. We are essentially and community’s struggle with historically the people given to I destiny for a long time but more intellectual exercise. Professionally we so since our exile in 1990. I have are circumspect. We are dismally traveled the globe more than once inexperienced in economic, commercial, conveying the poignant saga of our entrepreneurial and political spheres of suffering to international community. life. Enterprise, initiative and innovation, Much has happened and much is the essential pre-requisites for a happening now. I often recall to my mind community’s march onwards to what we have gone through and where prosperity have remained trampled destiny is driving us as a community, under eight hundred years of brutal as a family and as individuals. On the suppression by our adversaries. basis of my knowledge, experience and It will take us some time to come intuition I can visualize what possibly out of that syndrome and look around should be the future shape of our for these and other new avenues, community. I want to share it with my especially business, managerial and community members. military services. After great introspection and cool Therefore in the first phase of our thinking I have decided to speak to you life in exile, our youth will have to carry what is in my mind. It will disappoint forward the customary profession in many of my friends and colleagues with order to recover from and survive the whom I have closely worked during past onslaught we had to face so suddenly if three decades. It pains me also. But if I not unexpectedly. The next generation do not say it now, I shall prove untrue will move away professionally and hence to my conscience. History will not spare also intellectually. It will look for space me. horizontal as well as vertical. That will The return of the community to be the harbinger of a new life and new Kashmir is out of question. For the first era in our history. In this period, most time in a thousand years, we have of our chosen intellectual youth should breathed the air of freedom outside the and will be drawn to professions of mountain-curtained valley of Kashmir: excellence with innovative urges. A small we have wriggled out of the prison house section from our top intellectual segment of discrimination, suppression and should be able to gatecrash the Indian degradation: we have opened our wings administrative juggernaut and barge into for soaring into the skies and scaling the the corridors of bureaucratic power - heights. This is a rare and unique structures of the country. Some of our opportunity for our future generations youth bestowed by nature with and for us. Let us seize it by our teeth. leadership quality and linguistic skills We have come to the Indian plains with should be able to make room for our centuries old ethos, good or bad themselves in active politics of

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 19 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR contemporary India. Many of them will Being a pariah no political group in this find entry into financial organizations country would own us, adopt whatever and mass media structures of the modus of servitude we may. country and our emerging entrepreneurs The Indian media considers it a sin will become components of its to talk a word about us except in negative commercial and economic machine. terms. The saffronites exploit us, the Thus by next two or three decades, khadiites despise us, and the reds club the community will have put under wrap us with the bourgeoisie. its saga of exile and exodus: it will have We ask for Homeland –— a overcome the nightmare of proposition more in the broader interests discrimination and suppression. This of the Indian nation state than in ours community cannot escape the ordained as an ethnic group: we ask for role of becoming frontline planners and representation in conflict resolution builders of new India. dialogue as victimized people: we ask for But this is not the end of our representation as a minority: we ask for struggle. Once the inherent potential of representation in power sharing, law dynamism is unleashed, the community making and nation building will look beyond the shores and climes. mechanisms. Does it mean anything Our advance columns have already set with those holding the reins of power? their feet on foreign lands. We need to Does the presence of a miniscule non- create an urge and a burning desire in Muslim entity in a predominantly our youth to transcend geographical Muslim and radically Islamized society boundaries or the constraints on mean anything? Don’t we see and freedom of movement. No land is foreign understand that a “secular democratic” to us, no territory is forbidden to us, Indian Union has not only literally but especially the developed world. On the practically accepted a non-secular, Indian soil, we may have hurdles in Islamized Kashmir as its now much maintaining our identity, but on a foreign fragile “inseparable part”, provides soil, all necessary conditions are frugal funding for the perpetuation of a available to create, perpetuate and mini – Pakistan at home, and, in the propagate our true identity. This is process, pockets tons of humiliation because we have all the requisite hurled into its face by the beneficiaries qualifications to make us the true citizen of its largesse? Which of India’s political of the world. We are the globalized parties is secular or democratic in the community in an era of globalization. context of the situation of our These traits in our character need to be community? exploited adequately. Therefore, our reasonable demands It is futile to waste our time and like ‘homeland’, ‘representation’ etc. energy in running after the Indian ironically makes us jokers not only in political class for the amelioration of our the eyes of the stalwarts of Kashmir condition as it is today. We are nobody’s fundamentalism-terrorism but also in vote bank because we are numerically the eyes of the Sultans of Delhi. I no more insignificant — a non-entity — and want to mislead my community economically bankrupt. Therefore, for members. I no more want them to be the them we are a liability, a stinking lot. daydreamers. It is not at all ‘maej

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 20 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Kasheer' (Mother Kashmir) for us. for submerging our self in its placid Kashmir, as the Srinagar-New Delhi waters. camaraderie plan, is the other name of We cannot move forward if we keep ignominy and servility for us. Let us our womenfolk deprived of their share come out of a great deceptive notion. in new thinking. They are the foremost A thousand years - old servility has who need to be educated into a new broken our spirit. Even in exile, where process of thought and action. We need our tormentors may not reach us, we to engage them mentally in search for remain servile to powerless and faceless new vision and movement. They have to gods. If our gods and goddesses had any come out of the customary mindset and power, they would have defended men folk need to play their honest part themselves. They could not. They have in that exercise. never had power except that of Secondly, our womenfolk have to mesmerizing us and intoxicating us with break the shackles that make them the utter servility, slavish mentality and slaves of the kitchen. It means they have Buddhist escapism. Let me be frank and to implement a changed agenda of food forthright. A new pattern of the hangover habits of the community members and of that servitude is visible in the the dress regime of their own class. behaviour of the community in exile. In Vegetable sandwiches must replace Jammu in particular where we have a plateful of rice and the kitchens should concentration, enormous money is close at 8 PM in the evening to allow time wasted in the building of ashrams, for our womenfolk to walk, read, discuss, shrines and institutions after this or that medicate and introspect. More time has person giving them the new epithet of to be allotted to outdoor activity, physical “bubs”. One wonders why we are going exercise community life and social along a regressive and not a progressive engagements. Our womenfolk will meet path. Why don’t we build technical the first ray of liberation the day they schools, polyclinics, craft centres, say good-bye to the damned sari and the nursing schools and homes, computer despicable kameez and shalwar (the learning centres, institutions for legacy of the Pathan rule) as the common preparing students for professional and dress. As long as they remain bandaged competitive exams, gyms, play grounds, in a seven-meter long obnoxious bundle indoor games studios and the like? What of textile, they are tied down in fetters of are these ashrams going to do for the slavery. Our womenfolk’s dress should destitute community? Remember not be the same as is used by the Jewish gods and goddess, not mendicants, women, viz. trousers and the top.. Keep recluses and ‘bubs’ make the destiny of your hands free to work, to move, to a people. It is the wise, the visionary, brandish and to hit a miscreant. You and the courageous leadership that need not a dupattta. It enchains you. shapes the destiny of a people. Worship Throw it away into the garbage and then not their name or their fame; worship when you walk remember what Tagore the ideals they have set for us. The ideals told the Bengali women. “Look straight mean dynamism, objectivity, and into the eyes of the people when you pragmatism. Shaivism is fine; a subject walk”. That gives you power, confidence, for understanding and research but not boldness and individuality.

July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 21 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR A word about the changing contours our younger generation should be of culture is also needed. We hear loud exhorted to perfect English and without murmur of erosion of our traditional fail learn one or two European languages culture. Many among us demonstrate preferably French and German. I would despair on that count. The phenomenon even strongly recommend that our youth has to be addressed in a realistic manner learn excellent Arabic to make a dent in and not just as a matter of nostalgia. As the petro-dollar Eldorado of the littoral our community has willingly or states. No field should remain out of unwillingly come into interaction with bounds for them. If they do that, new wider Indian society, it is neither horizons will open for them. practicable nor sensible to create walls Dear friends, we are not the only and quarantines to segregate our youth. group to have suffered the loss of a home That does not happen. and the homeland. Human history is But, of course, what ought to be done replete with this saga. Ours is not an is that each Pandit family should steal exceptional case. Remember half an hour every week and impart displacement is also a great boon, a broad outlines of our culture, mythology virtue if we are able to make one out of and history to the younger generation it. It gives a new life; it brings new blood in the home in a manner to create in into veins; it rejuvenates and refreshes. them a sense of belonging to a specific Ask not for a path that is not strewn with cultural stream. Three works must thorns. Remember that refugees and remain under the pillow of every well- migrants have created great civilizations meaning Pandit, namely The Bhagvat in human history, civilizations along the Gita, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini (related by course of the Nile, the Euphrates, the Stein) and Jagmohan’s My Frozen Tigris, the Oxus, the Danube, the Seine, Turbulence in Kashmir. Sustained the Indus, and the Ganges and lately on lecturing could prove very useful. But the Potomac. Diasporas have created then if notwithstanding that effort the new parameters of human culture. You youth are sucked into the vortex of larger have to unleash that hidden and Indian milieu, it has to be accepted as dormant potential in you. Create a new inevitable and not something to be world, a new civilization a new vision and despised or abhorred. That will cause you are at the top of the world. Only weak serious harm to the creative faculty of and battered people cry for the lost lands our youth. and climes. To us the land where we And about our mother tongue – set our foot is our homeland whether it Kashmiri, I must say it is not a developed is the orient or the occident, within the language, and at the best it is a dialect. shores of the seas or beyond. It has no literary potential unless you heavily draw upon Sanskrit or Persian (The author is the former Director of the lexicon both obsolete for our youth). It Centre of Central Asian Studies, Kashmir has no scientific script (the Sharada is University). irretrievable). Kashmiri is fast getting eroded among our youth and let that Website: www.world-citizenship.org/ happen without remorse. We are not loosing anything by loosing it. Instead,

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iridhari got his Masters Degree was no reserved quota in in English. He was very fond of the jobs for him. So it G this language and had acquired became very difficult for a good command over it. him to seek employment Although he had more interest in classics in any office or yet he was well versed in English department. He did think literature as such. From Chaucer and of moving out of Kashmir Milton to Pope and Dryden and from and was sure to get some Shakespeare and Ben Johnson to work at Delhi, Lucknow or Chandigarh Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats as also but the greatest hindrance was that Eliot, Yeats and other architects of there was no one in whose care he could English literature, all were at the tip of leave his old mother and young wife. He his tongue. He would quote them, use was giving tuitions in the mornings and their idioms and phrases and admire the evenings and during the day he would thought contained in their writings. He knock at the doors of various had particularly specialized in 19th departments, meet officers and beg for century English poetry. With this a job of any kind that would provide his profound knowledge and depth of study family and him some succour. He was he was a fit person to undertake research by now so desperate and dejected that in any aspect and work for obtaining a he was ever prepared to get a No for an Ph.D. from some reputed university. Any answer. A refusal, a negative answer and professor of repute would have loved and even an insulting response would not felt honoured to take him in his tutelage bother him. Along with his file containing and be his guide for the research work. the certificates, diplomas and degrees he Unfortunately this was not practicable would always carry a book with him. He due to his family circumstances. He had would wade through he pages of the book lost his father. He was married and thus while waiting outside the office of a had his mother, his wife and himself to Secretary, a Director or any other feed. So he decided to seek some dignitary who he was going to approach employment. A lecturer’s post in the local for a job. He never bothered whether the Intermediate or Degree College would job he was seeking was suitable or have ideally suited him but he could not unsuitable, befitting the knowledge he get that job. He applied for a number of had acquired or even remotely connected posts, from an accounts assistant to a with English literature that he had so clerk, from a supervisor to an assistant assiduously learnt and mastered by and from a police constable to a forest burning the midnight oil. guard but did not succeed. He was a One fine morning he came to know Hindu and that tooa Brahmin and there that there were some vacancies of * Translated from his own Kashmiri story ‘Bebuj’. July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 23 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Primary school teachers to be filled Mohiuddin was impressed that this man immediately. He took his file, which by had offered money without asking and now had worn out by constant rubbing, had also not come empty-handed opening and closing, and his best friend, without any gift; he had brought some a book and rushed to the office of the fruit. Outwardly he told him that all this Inspector of Schools. He filled in an was not needed and that he should not application form and handed it over to have taken the trouble. To this Giridhari the Receipt-Clerk along with a Ten Rupee replied politely that this was for the note as his ‘Bakhshish’, without which children and was just nothing he would not have entertained the significant. Mohiuddin remarked, ‘this application form. He was asked to come is what I like of Kashmiri Pandits. They to the office the following day when he are wise and courteous too and do not would know the fate of his application. pay a visit to any house empty handed.’ When he was about to leave, the peon He promised that he would try his on duty came behind him and demanded best to help him and asked him to call some money on receipt of which he would on him the next day in his office in the tell him the way to get a favourable reply. afternoon. Next day at about 11 a.m. the Giridhari paid him one rupee and he told matter of making appointments was him the address of the ‘Bara Babu’, the discussed by the Inspector of Schools Head Clerk, Mr. Mohiuddin, whose palm with his Head Clerk and the final list was needed to be suitably greased to get the drawn up. Since Giridhari was a Hindu, appointment order. there was a lot of debate and discussion Giridhari went back to his home. He about his candidature. At one time the needed at least an amount of Five boss even made a remark that he was hundred Rupees to pay to the Head over qualified for the post. Mohiuddin Clerk. Luckily he collected some amount had an obligation to find a way out to from the boys he was teaching at home adjust him somehow because of the and some from his wife, who had saved money he had already accepted from him a little money from the day-to-day but his religion was a great hindrance. expenses. The deficiency was made good But the ‘Bara Babu’s have their own by borrowing from a local shopkeeper. ways. They are capable of twisting the With this money arranged, he set on his rules, finding loopholes and advancing visit to Mohiuddin at his house in Ali sound reasoning to substantiate what Kadal, early next morning. On the way they propose to do. He made a sudden he also purchased some fruits to be suggestion, ‘Sir, why not put him in a placed before him so that he gives a single-teacher primary school in some favourable reply. On reaching the house remote village, no other person would of the Head Clerk he saluted him and like such a posting?’ The Inspector requested him to help not on the agreed and this pleased Mohiuddin, consideration of his merit, which he had whose pocket contained the crisp but which was of no consequence, but currency notes offered by Giridhari the on the consideration that he had an old previous day. mother and his wife dependent on him In the afternoon when Giridhari without any other source of income. came to the office he was given the July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 24 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR appointment order. On seeing the place children in the school. of posting he was rather disappointed. Sempur was a small village with It was a good one and a half-hour bus about thirty families, mostly Muslims. ride from his house to that village. Their main occupation was agriculture Besides it meant additional travel and some cottage craft. They gave due expenditure as well, which he could ill- respect to the new teacher, whom they afford. Mohiuddin consoled him saying, addressed as ‘Mashterji’. They had all ‘you go and join there. After sometime I along been very keen to give education shall shift you to a nearer place. After to their children to the extent they could all I am here to help you’. What other afford. However, most of them had alternative he had? He heaved a sigh, dropped out and joined their parents in took the appointment order and left for working in the fields or in their craft. his home with the resolve that from the There was one person only in the past, following day he would take up his post. who did continue and went to Srinagar After all he had got a permanent to join the college. His name was Ghulam government job. The staff in the Rasool. The villagers were keen to have inspectorate had a hearty laugh as soon many more boys like him under the as he turned his back. This laughter did patronage of the new ‘Mashterji’ so that reach his ears too but he had to swallow the literacy rate in the village increases this insult as well. His need had by now year after year. This was the main reason made him immune to such insults. Gone that ‘Mashterji’ was welcome in the were the days when a ‘Batta’, Kashmiri village. Giridhari was highly qualified Pandit was given due regard and respect and a specialist in English literature. It by one and all because of his character, was a torture for him to teach tiny tots. scholarship and demeanor. Giridhari They were to be taught the Urdu conveyed the good news to his mother alphabet, figures from one to ten and and wife. They were happy that after a occasionally to draw some straight or great effort and running about he had curved lines. He would write all these finally succeeded in getting a government on a black board and ask them to copy job. The place of posting did dampen in their respective wooden boards. their spirits but even then they offered Himself he would sit in a shabby chair prayers at the local temple and prepared provided for him and read pages after ‘Tahar’, the customary yellow rice, and pages from his permanent companion, distributed it among neighbours. Next the book. Children were required to day Giridhari travelled by bus to the squat on the floor. The only village Sempur, met local villagers, got compensating factor was the soothing the one room school opened and started climate of the village, cool breeze, fresh the school. He enjoined upon the air and a free atmosphere, besides the villagers the advantages of education and simple village folk. ensured that they send all their children Time advanced, months rolled by and of school-going age to school. He sent nobody in the Education Department his joining report to the Inspectorate and bothered even to enquire about the new also reported to them that with his efforts teacher or about the progress this he was able to enroll about two-dozen forgotten school made under his July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 25 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR guidance. Ghulam Rasool got his appointment order was handed over to Bachelor’s degree, securing bare him. minimum marks in third division. His Next day Rasool went to the school family, nay the entire village celebrated and asked Giridhari to hand over charge his success. He was the first Degree of the school to him. Giridhari pointed holder produced by the village. After the out that there was no mention of his celebrations were over, Rasool went to posting elsewhere. Rasool said politely Srinagar one day. He reached the that this he should find out from the Inspector’s Office at about 11 a.m. and Inspectorate. Reluctantly he gave the sought an interview with the Inspector, charge to him, wound up his personal Mr.Imtiaz Ahmad. Entering his spacious establishment and left for his home at room, Rasool saluted him and then said, Srinagar. The government offices were ‘Khwaja Sahib, I am Ghulam Rasool from closed for a couple of days. So he had to Sempur. I am sorry to report to you that sit back and wait. The day the offices re- the teacher you had appointed in the opened, Giridhari was at the primary school there has unfortunately Inspectorate very early. He approached died and now the school is closed. Since Imtiaz Ahmad and asked him about his I am a graduate and belong to the same fate. Khwaja Sahib called in the ‘Bara village it would be in the fitness of things Babu’ and told him to look into the that you appoint me as teacher in that matter and report. The Head Clerk went school.’ The Inspector called his ‘Bara back to his cabin, took out the relevant Babu’, Mohiuddin and asked him to file from his cupboard and entered the clarify the matter. The Head Clerk said Inspector’s room. He said very coldly, to Rasool, ‘but we have no information ‘Sir, as per the official records Pandit about his death.’ Rasool said Giridhari Lal is dead and in his place convincingly, ‘Jenab I know. The school Ghulam Rasool has since been posted had only one teacher. When he died there at Sempur school. Now that he says that was no other person there to report to he is not dead he must prove that he is you, not even a peon. I belong to the alive and then put in an application along same village and am concerned about the with the proof. We shall certainly educational needs of our children. That consider his request.’ Giridhari looked is why I have come personally to report towards the Head Clerk and the to you and request you to appoint me Inspector by turns, chuckled and with a there in the interests of these children.’ lot of pain said, ‘Inspector Sahib, I am He was asked to wait outside. The before you all in one piece and talking. Inspector and his Head Clerk huddled What other proof do you need about my into a serious meeting for nearly half an being alive?’ The Inspector told him in a hour. Thereafter it was decided to flat and emotionless voice, ‘Look, it is a appoint him as teacher in that school. It question of procedure. After all the paper was also decided to write in the work has to be complete before any appointment order that he should take action is taken; we are also answerable over the charge of the school as such to the higher ups. You please go and do because there was no one to hand over. as directed by the Head Clerk and then Ghulam Rasool was called in and the come back with your application’. July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 26 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Crestfallen, Giridhari Lal, a Arzan Div Kashmiri Pandit, an M.A. in English literature with distinction, An Unknown Hero a specialist in 19th century English - Kamal Hak - poetry, a bread-earner for his old His name was Arzan Dev though every body mother and wife and till recently a called him Arzan Div. Nobody knew his primary school teacher, teaching surname and he didn’t own any material small village children alphabet and possessions. He, perhaps, never possessed a counting came out on the road, second set of clothes in his life and as such he looked up to the skies and would never change what ever he was wearing. wondered how he was going to For that matter he would never even take a prove that he was alive. But alas! bath. Soap, tooth paste and hair oil were a Who cares? gg taboo for him. Most probably, he never ever purchased any of these items. He was a bachelor and didn’t have any relatives. At least NOTICE nobody ever asked for him when he was alive or after he died in the year 1988. His room Annual General Meeting of was a the Kashmiri Pandits' Asso- reservoir of all the filth, dirt, ash and dust ciation, Mumbai will be held accumulated over decades. He would forcefully at Kashyap Bhawan, Plot No. resist any external attempts at cleaning his room. Though, his room had windows, those 16, Bhawani Nagar, Marol were never opened. He used to wear a dirty Maroshi Road, Andheri (E), shirt and a stinking pheran all the year round. Mumbai 400 059 on Sunday, His yellow turban would be multi-layers of the 14th October, 2007 at grease and dirt. He was virtually a walking 10.00 am sharp. filth store with very lazy habits as well. Arzan Div would sleep till 12.30- 1 PM, perhaps, because of having no steady job to attend or Election for the new Board of having no compulsions of earning a decent Trustees of the Association livelihood. In fact, he had never indulged in will also be held on the same any worthwhile vocation. day. Arzan Div was, thus, a perfect recipe for hatred, ridicule and contempt. Amazingly that was not the case. Despite his dirty appearance, All the eligible Life Members lack of hygiene, careless attitude, Arzan Div of Kashmiri Pandits' Associa- was a respected figure in Rainawari. tion, Mumbai are requested to Not many people will recall him now, but attend to take part in the de- there will be a few of our elders, who would liberations and also to elect not have forgotten him. Arzan Div spent all his life in a large room provided to him by the members of the new BOT. Hak family of Kralyar, Rainawari. In between, S.P.Kachru he also stayed briefly with Hakhu family of Gen. Secretary, KPA Bagh Jogi Lanker, Rainawari. Arzan Div’s life story is very relevant today July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 27 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR and is a perfect demonstration of one’s receive some pittance as the actions and conduct being the only compensation for his efforts. Marriages prerequisite for being a good human and the Mekhals were the special being. Today, when we are reflecting occasions eagerly looked forward to. He upon our failure to set up a corpus for was, most probably, hardly invited to any the needy amongst us and are just marriage or mekhal, debating on the possibilities of needful but he never lost an opportunity to action, people like Arzan Div can be a present himself at the venue armed with great source of inspiration. his irresistible insistence and a receipt Arzan Div didn’t have the need for book. A fifty rupee collection, which was doing any thing. The Hak family would rare those days, would be considered a provide him all the things required for fortune. his sustenance, which in any case were As far as my memory goes, Arzan Dev so meager that there was never any had a life long habit of not taking any requirement of a special financial outlay thing for lunch. An extra sweetened cup for him. But, Arzan Div had a passion (Khoas) of Kehwa and a phulka would for which he lived till his death. His entire be sufficient for his needs. As such he life was devoted to collecting funds for would never take any food in the an organization known by the name of marriages where he would reach for Widhwa Rakshani Sabha. The money collection. This used to be a subject of a was eventually distributed to poor constant debate with him and he would widows of the community. The always respond by saying a rupee for a organization used to operate from some poor widow was more important than his where in Sathu Barbar Shah and was, lunch. perhaps, renamed later. My memory One can imagine the hardships he betrays me here as I fail to recall that would have faced in his life long name now. endeavor. That he sustained his Arzan Div would devise his own motivation for many decades is a strategy for collecting the funds and had remarkable feat in itself. He could not long ago adopted the very ways to raise have done any ill towards any body, yet, money as are being suggested now. He lying on the bed in the general medicine had identified regular donors and would ward of SMHS Hospital, he raised his reach them every month for collection. folded hands towards me and requested His crudely maintained ledger would for forgiving all the troubles he might serve as a planner also. The ledger would have given our family during his entire help him to plan his calls. One can life. A few moments latter, he again imagine the Herculean task he had to folded his hands towards the ceiling and face as the most of the individual loudly asked his creator to forgive his donations would be a maximum of Re. sins and take him to HIS world. The very 1. There would be some two rupees next moment he left this world leaving donors also, though their numbers was behind nothing but his memories. very less. There were, perhaps, no There may not be the likes of Arzan regular donors Div any more but their spirit will always above this. Every month, he would be there to inspire us. make a walking trip to Sathu Bar Bar Orzu. Shah office to deposit the money and oo July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 28 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR Book Review - Ravindra K. Mattoo NArvind Gigoo's 'The Ugly Kashmiri'

he latest book to come to me as not 'still'. They are not calm. Everybody a gift from my nephew Arun is tense and worries - homesick, root- T from Delhi is the much talked less and nostalgic. Strength: "Divided about book 'The Ugly Kashmiri' we stand, united we fall". This cameo (Cameos in Exile) by Arvind Gigoo. The shows the lack of unity in our commu- cover of the book depicts an ugly wooden nity. The author is very sad and critical figurine, a piece of relief, straight from of this attitude of the community. Then the wood. My friends from delhi with there is Address --- blank rectangular whom I exchanged my views on the book space. The cameo shows that our com- have known the author not as 'ugly' but munity members have no address. We as a handsome well-known, knowledge- have lost our roots and our homes. A able professor of English literature, Signboard reading in bold letters "Body translator of Kashmiri poetry into En- for Sale". This cameo depicts how the glish and as a critic and writer of repute. property of Kashmiri Pandits was sold Gigoo's unique impressive work has not in Kashmir at throwaway price. All these only given me sumptuous thought for the excite sympathetic sadness and inflict year, but drawn distinct and crystal clear pain and alarm. They are followed by One picture of what he rightly feels and un- & Many: "One is good, many is danger". derstands about Kashmiri psyche. The Tourism: "Permanent tourists! What book is one of its kind, each of his one or luck!" A Drop: "A tear fell upon the trunk two liners speak volumes. I surely feel in the truck, it was a Muslim tear". This he has shown brevity in writing his one- one liner shows the relationship of liners. I for myself can correlate and place Kashmiri Muslim with Kashmiri Pandit. the subject easily, who he has lam- "Muslim tear" is a sad expression. Sen- pooned, mocked and jeered at so truth- sitivity: "Mister you have fine skin". fully, forcefully and artistically. The cam- Hide-sir-hide". Words: "Dear sir, only in eos are no trite or banal but certainly my writing do I say that we must return. terse maxims .... forthright, very bold and I am better here." The Middle Path: pregnant. Some are beautifully sugar- "Merge or leave or perish. I followed the coated while some are open which can middle path. The other two will follow force one to brood, sulk, ruminate and me". This cameo shows how Kashmiri even laugh heartily. Pandits were treated in Kashmir. Then There is satire, truth, pathos, nos- there is sarcasm, a dig at our politicians talgia, anger and typical Kashmiri and the man on street. The King: "Then humour. The book opens with a cameo the king went to a distant land when his titled STILL. "I still am, I am not still". It subjects were being killed, and he shed is about the strength of Kashmiri Pandits tears in the Great Hall when his throne who in spite of the tragedy of the nine- was restored." This is satire on the poli- ties are still carrying on. But they are ticians who betrayed their own people July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 29 feyp+kjò cdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdc MILCHAR when they needed them most. Emanci- he calls himself 'anti-Kashmiri Pandit'? pation: "Listen! How can I talk about the He doesn't seem to be anti-Kashmiri plight of Kashmiri Pandits? I am a secu- Pandit. He feels pain for the community larist." This is a biting satire on the In- although he is critical of the bad things dian pseudo-secularist politicians who in the community. feel it below their dignity to talk about I have never come across a book like Pandits. Chameleon: "From Pakistan to Gigoo's 'The Ugly Kashmiri' because so plebiscite to India to Pakistan to Inde- much has been said in so few words. pendence to anything and anywhere in Here we find history of Kashmir reduced one breath." The Signal: "Our leader is to some words; we find the love-hate re- wiping his eyes with a green hankie". lationship of Kashmiri Muslims and "This is green signal". Again Kashmiri Kashmiri Pandits; we find political events [politicians have always played with the that happened in the history of Kashmir sentiments of Kashmiris. Holy Places: till date; we find the deep psychological "And the wisest among them founded insight of the author into the mind of Ashrams and erected the replica of their the Kashmiris - both Muslims and holy places". "Do holy places have repli- Pandits. The meanings of most of the cas?" This depicts the highest degree of cameos are veiled. Some of the cameos ignorance of scriptures and zero faith in are difficult to comprehend. One must ones deity. have sufficient knowledge of history, poli- Lastly, I do not approve of this cameo tics, sociology and the past rulers of which says "Let us celebrate the Shree Kashmir. Gigoo is not obvious anywhere. Bhat Day." "O that great doctor who He makes you stop and think for a long charged a fee that we pay". Why curse time. His knowledge of politics and his- Hakim Shri Bhat? I see no fault in what tory, and his razor sharp observation add he did for the community. In fact he ren- to the beauty of each cameo. The Pref- dered a yeoman's service in resettling our ace is well written and crisp. He has no forefathers in the valley who had fled solutions to offer. The Ugly Kashmiri Kashmir under Afghan tyranny. Shri should be read slowly otherwise the Bhat relieved Badshah Zain-ul-Abadin of reader will miss sarcasm, wit, irony and excruciating pain after treating him of humour. Some of the cameos make one his carbuncle. Hakim did not ask for any way sad. I recommend the book to all land, silver or gold but begged of the those who want to enhance their knowl- Badshah out of love for his brethren to edge of Kashmiri politics and history and resettle Pandits in Kashmir. Thousands want to know more about the events that flocked back to their roots. Shri Bhat took place in Kashmir in the nineties and never could see tomorrow like Nostre before that too. Damus or else he would never have asked for such a wish. He was a pucca philan- Read Monthly 'här-van' - the thropist. Our community would have shrunk further, had he not asked for this net-journal of Project Zaan. boon. We would not have had millions of beautiful Kashmiris but more of 'ugly' Visit: www.zaan.net ones. 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July-August 2007 dcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcdcddc Page 35 RNI Registration No. MAHMUL/2004/13413 Biradari News v This year's Annual General Meeting of v Dr Satish Ganjoo has taken over as the Kashmiri Pandits' Association, Head, P G Dept of History, Ramgarhia Mumbai will be held on 14th October post Graduate College, Phagwara 2007 at Kashyap Bhawan, Andheri (E). (Punjab) with the additional charge of the Elections for the new Board of Trustess Dept. of Computer Sciences and Infor- of the KPA will also be held on the same mation Technology. day. All life-members of the Association are requested to attend and take part in the proceedings of the AGM and also Matrimonial elect a new team of BOT. H Wanted a suitable match for v Aditya Birla Group has selected former KP boy, Dec.1971 born, ht. 5’- ICICI Prudential AMC managing director 9”, working in Sahara. Please Shri Pankaj Razdan as CEO for Financial contact: P.K.Razdan, 3- Services. He will be part of company’s Inderdeep, 396/2 North commercial think-tank. Avenue Road, S’cruz (West), v A 'Meet the Eminent Contemporary' Mumbai 400 054. Tel: programme was organised by J&K Acad- 26604280. Cell: 9892407220. emy of Art Culture & Languages on 22nd August, 2007 at K.L.Saigal Hall, Acad- H Alliance invited from KP emy Complex, Jammu, to honour Shri family for our handsome smart Arjun Dev Majboor. Dr. Rafeeq Masoodi, boy, born Oct. 1980, 5’-7” tall, Secretary Academy, Dr. Rattan Lal BE (Information Technology) Shant, a renowned writer and Prof. Saigal from Mumbai University. spoke on the occasion and described the literary and personal life of Shri Majboor. Diploma in Marketing The programme was presided by Shri Management from Wellingkar Nilamber Dev Sharma, a vetern Dogri Institute of Management, writer. On this occasion, the 360 page Mumbai. Presently working as translation of Nilamata Purana by Shri Business Development Majboor was also released. During the Interaction period, a Manager in a reputed MNC in 'Question-Answer' session was arranged Mumbai, drawing handsome where Shri Majboor answered questions salary. Please contact: on various topics from the audience. Mr. S.K.Kaul. Ph. 022- More than a hundred writers in differ- 28120224. Cell: 9321095199. ent languages participated in the programme.

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