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BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JULY 12
Quite an aggressive, if not unwarranted, pronouncement: Many Kashmiri Pandits have become "deeply suspicious" of each other. The pronouncement is from Kamal Hak, whose write-up on Kashmiri Pandits has been carried by the latest issue of Kashmir Opinions, English publication from New Delhi.
When this reporter contacted Kashmir Opinions' Editor, HL Mujoo, to know about Kamal Hak, pat came the reply: "He is associated with the Panun Kashmir faction led by Agnishekhar". Kamal Hak seems to have run against the stated position of his organisation on the continuing plight of Kashmiri Pandit migrants. Kamal Hak's finding: "There is hardly any member of our community living as a tenant and most of the people (in the community of Kashmiri Pandits) have become masters of multiple real estate".
Kamal Hak's yet another finding: "Today an average family (of Kashmiri Pandits) boasts of at least two televisions in their household along with all the modern audio-visual entertainment gadgets. Majority of four-member households have a minimum of five phones, four mobile and one fixed line. The majority aspiration is not for owning a car but for acquiring a second bigger one".
Stating that he feels extremely happy at the progress made by the Kashmiri Pandit community and sight of a prosperous Kashmiri Pandit "adds a few grams to my blood", Kamal Hak has put in black and white his finding number three: "We are losing our capability of trusting each other and many of us have become deeply supicious of each other". Finding number four: "We have lost our ancestral homeland and for many of us it is good riddance. We are fast losing our language and for many of us it is of no concern".
Kamal Hak's finding number five: "We are fast losing our cultural character and for many of us it is the adjustment with the larger social milieu. We have lost the art of being tolerant and will not even agree to disagree decently".
Finding number six: "We have lost the zeal for activism and have become masters of mud slinging. We have lost the sense of discretion and have mastered the art of abuse proliferation. We hafe lost the culture of being a respectful people and don't mind unfolding the turban of a Batta (Kashmir Pandit) in public".
Stating that the world for a majority of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) has assumed an entirely different shape, Kamal Hak laments: "We have lost seventeen years of our life in the struggle and most of us are not sensitive about that. And we hafe lost the hurt of being a hapless, ignored, persecuted and exiled people whose only crime was their faith".
Kamal Hak's fiunding number seven: "In our materialistic progress and senseless internal squabbles, we havge forgotten that we are refugees, displaced from our homes and hearths".
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