From 90s to 20s
Photo from 1990 Refugee Camp in Jammu

From 90s to 20s

By the end of this week, many things will be published about 2020 & a lot will be remembered too. When I see it through my 1990s #Kashmir, it was a reminder of our life being a constant struggle & relearning, beyond our individual or collective triumph. While #Covid did steal all the headlines, but underlying aspects of my 30 years in exile re-established my baseline “Life did not stop, and one had to live on

War & Peace We moved from North Korean nuclear war threats, to peaceful coexistence across middle east & finally into the civil liberty movement in Americas. And I reminded self “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself” Finding the peace within, was more important always but we dreamt of it outside anyways.

Breaking Maslow's Hierarchy As people stocked the toilet paper and hand sanitizers, I told myself, its nothing new. One night during a cold winter, my parents left everything, and we were, stranded in strange town starving for food & shelter for next decade. I was humbled to realize their pain and sustaining through it “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy

Pain or Gain One must not be self-absorbed within its ethos permanently & shouldn't believe in the possibility of knowing everything fully. We quite often weigh, our experience with Pain or Gain made at end of outcome and lose the experience of being in transition. When millions lost means of living this year , I relived through the terrible experience of being desperate to survive and disparate to continue in refugee camps during 1990s. “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. 

Death is a Celebration Human civilization was taken by surprise as innocents sniffed in Virus to be swept into death & we kept blaming one another for the confusing mistakes. Politicians baked breads and Godmen their treasures, but I cursed my memories to recall innocents who fell to bullets, snakebites or scorching sun as it soaked out their life. Honourably, society performed its duties till the end with a celebration to life in Death “Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over"

Our Address is Tomorrow As year ended, western parties across their channel & North sea parted ways, Xitler rose to claim everything from south sea to plateaus of my homeland Tibet & Americans realized new chapter but I recalled the 90s as some Kings claimed my extinction for 7th time but we reincarnated again. I realized once again “Kings are the slaves of history.”

Today, I pray to within self that as 2021 sets my 31st year in exile, I do heal the wounds and pain of One and all, irrespective of anyone being aggressor or victim because World is my Home & Homeland . There is nowhere else for life or us can go.

None has returned from heaven or hell to take anyone there again in #SpaceX shuttle!

Our Address is #OneEarth #OneWorld Lets Rejoice #MotherEarth in 2021 with +ve Attitude

Sunel Gurtoo

Managing Director @ Klimas Wkr?t-met | Asia Region - Fastening Solutions

3 年

Big pain for our community ..31 years gone and we still are Refugees in our own country . Being away from Hearth& Homes is biggest pain ,wish we could get back to Kashmir one day and full fill shattered desire of half a million people.

Sudipta Chatterjee

Education Export (India), Sales & Marketing, International Business

3 年

I could feel your pain through those lines you have penned. History never stops teaching, but humans never start learning. Sad thing.

Abhay Rawal

Enterprise Solution Architect - Life Sciences, Healthcare, Energies & Utilities

3 年

Maudlin story, especially the para "Pian or Gain". I bow down to every Kashmiri Pandit and Hindus. Despite losing everything, you not only managed to live but emerged strongly. May lord Mahadev bless you all with his best smiles. I strongly feel that every Kashmiri Pandit will get back, what they had lost.

Vikash Bagati

Delivery Manager - Tech Autonomous Infrastructure Services, Business Transformation Group | Silver Mentor ?? at Tata Consultancy Services

3 年

I and my family have lived in this Refugee Camp at Jammu...I was tough too young to feel the real pain of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.

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