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| Ire against St Valentine’s Day vanishes into the blue | | |
Early Times Report
New Delhi,
A new wave of emancipation sweeps through the country. Not just Mumbai has played cool to Bal Thackerey’s war cries against Shahrukh Khan’s movie, My Name is Khan, but Jammu and Kashmir too has been spared of the rage of Dukhtarane Millat this time whose veiled activists have been tearing off St Valentine Day cards during the years gone by and storming the shops selling these token’s of love in Srinagar. Yet in far off Karnataka the sides have reversed as far as muscle flexing goes through the countdown to St Valentine’s Day that since yore became an insignia of love, nay romance, expressed through cards, cakes, flowers like being exchanged today among budding lovers.
The question whether this love can transcend borders that have mostly been giving way to bitterness thus far is now getting answer from unexpected quarters. According to one report, a little known lady, Dr Darakhshan Andrabi, who leads her not so often heard of party called Socialistic Democratic Party of Jammu and Kashmir, has expressed her love through setting off balloons and also pigeons near the borders with Pakistan in a rare gesture of love, friendship and peace with the neighbour. Called as a staunch Indian, Dr Andrabi offered her party and country’s love to Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to mark a day that is beholden by lovers.
In any case expectations have already been heightened on the front Dr Andrabi set out this weekend with her surprise gesture. The only difference she has made is to give it a touch of St Valentine known for bringing lovers together and turning their wishes true. Yet turning to divinity in arenas other than love is warranted only when hope is lost. And when one looks at India and Pakistan there has seldom been much to hope about. This has been so howsoever sadly since few have been left to have an imagination like setting off balloons that Dr Andrabi has tried in order to dispel fear and bring bonhomie. This should have the desired effect on the powers-that-be whether in India or in Pakistan and also their shadows that lurk with guns in hands through the lands and climes where love should alone blossom.
They should, indeed, recall their solemn promises often made to each other with people of both countries watching as mere bystanders often holding their breath. This ought to be more so since this time St Valentine’s Day is quietly getting through without inviting the pell-mell of the past whether in Kashmir or Karnataka.
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