It is this attitude that has largely been responsible for our historical misfortunes, medieval aberrations, feudal humiliations and colonial embarrassments we have one through over a long span of our history. Till we remain under the tutelage of the neem hakeems and saed makars and continue to be lead astray by Toms, Dicks and Harries the chances of our reaching the goal and fulfilling our aspirations are almost zero. In their protracted struggle for fortunes and supremacy we shall continue getting totally sandwiched, dismayed and annihilated; nay completely ripped off in the process. Under the weight of their over-ambitious designs for worldly comforts and rich pickings we may finally be consumed as a nation to leave behind nothing but ugly and reprehensible reminiscences as our historical legacy. By doing so we shall be simply re-enacting what our easy to fleece ancestors had done before. Their gullibility and over-simplicity constantly stood, as history bears ample witness to, in their way; not allowing them to stand on their own legs to emerge as a vibrant nation of sorts. Their trustfulness and lack of caution always caught them in a quagmire of credulity of their own making which bunged up all their escape routes; intensifying, thus, their reliance and addiction to the enchantment of neem hakeems almost on perpetual basis’.
Like their modern counterparts, the paramount aim of little historical hakeems and saed makars was nothing but to find out green pastures and ensure that their fortunes were up by hook or by crook, no matter if they had to compromise the national pride, self respect, individuality and societal good of their motherland in the bargain. Our history is stuffed with a variety of hoaxes frequently played by these self-seeking goons to realize their dreams of climbing the steps of power; not hesitating even telling lies and breaking promises for theft own personal aggrandisement. They would very often choose the most susceptible ecclesiastical route to enter the alluring premises of plenty, power and promise and accordingly split people on sectarian basis They invented the naughtiest ghost of Sunni-Shia cleavage to inundate the precincts of class and community synchronization and, thereby, helped the outsiders to convert Kashmir into the fiefdom of the Mughal, the Afghan, the Sikh, and the Dogra rulers successively in lieu of trivial returns. In recent past their likes loyally followed the precedent and ardently created the phantom of Shair-Bakara dichotomy to substitute the tatty and worn out game of Sunni-Shia schisms for facilitating the smooth landing of dubious masters on our soil to keep alive our slavery and reckless pillage of our resources and change Kashmir into a limping protectorate of the Banana democracy; an enchantress of snake charmers.
The story does not end here. It continues unhampered; throwing up heaps of opportunities for an unwieldy squad of contemporary neem hakeems to baffle the people with theft disorientated, bewildered, idealistic, unrealistic and impracticable formulas for the solution of our historical problem’. They are frequently seen wandering across the Valley and around its peripheries with their greedy eyes always fixed on the pockets of others, bamboozling the people through their atypical idiom and rhetoric. They do not even hesitate to scratch with their fingers the sensitive parts of the bodies of those easy to fool, sometimes in objectionable places. That they are fishing in the troubled waters to exploit our undecided status to their advantage and befouling the masses by their ‘novel’ ideas which they hurl around every now and then to ensconce their position as genuine representatives of Kashmiri aspirations is no more a secret.
The younger generations, especially those born between 1989 and 1993, now fully appreciate what is actually underlying the political clatter, chaotic rattle and fierce speeches which the huge company of these unbridled saed makars is not at weary of delivering with promptitude. They clearly recognize that the requirements of their hobnobbing with the forces, unfalteringly inclined to maintain the status quo, compel them to arrange their shows even on the fringes of peripheries, in the zones and in the most difficult outposts of hinterland so as to confuse more and more people by their angry natter against the powers that be. With their ‘unique’ stratagems they have, thus, always stood in their way of achieving the resurgence of their lost nationhood and historical individuality, and diddled them out of a ventilator for their life support and unrestricted movement. No wonder these budding young Kashmiris are harbouring titanic resentment against these hakeems which is likely to turn into such an intense hatred against them in the days to come that it shall be too devastating to be routed easily and may one day, finally, burst out like a volcano inundating the borders of the castles they live in.
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Dr. Abdul Ahad is a well-known historian of Kashmir. He presents a perspective on the Kashmir issue and talks about Kashmir’s history and individuality and personality.
