Can a fallen chinar give shade? Kashmiris are trying. On youtube, saw twice the short film of Shawn Sebastian - In the shade of the Fallen Chinar. Liked it. Young faces, handsome men and lovely women, giving up guns, taking up poetry, paint brushes, Sufi music, producing a magazine at the Kashmir University to decontain their pain and there is no denying Kashmiris are in pain, a deep hurt which will not go, perhaps forever. Can Sikhs ever detox 1984? There are 500 to 600 chinars in the campus for the young to talk to. Some shade. Chinars have been there always; doubtful if they will be around. Why is New Delhi denying the film's existence? What exactly is unbhakt about it? Towards the end, a young man attends prayers at the tomb of his friend, downed by the Army. Yes, The Indian Express is to the point when it ends a third edit - Keep it irrelevant - 'After decades of official repression, we now like our films socially irrelevant; truth-seekers like Sebastian should give us a break.' Yes, New Delhi has broken Sebastian. Thanks be. Try as Prime Minister Modi may, Kashmir cannot be solved without Insaniyat. Me has only one ordinary solution. Table Talk with all; together, separately; and with all; starting with young men and women, their parents; and all politicians; keep talking; talking can be tiring; talking allows all to live. There is simply no way out. Bullets and army boots will surely fail, if they have not failed. As a start keep the Kashmir University and schools open, always. Siddartha Sankar Ray and Jyothi Basu in the 70s killed and tortured Naxals and today The Indian Express has a front page lead story: Spreading their footprint, Maoists map new zone of operations in three states. India will have to find ways to live with protests; the poor are hungry; their lands and cattle are being taken away; they will protest as they get to read the alphabets of dissent; the poor make the majority in me country; even the cruel Chinese government of Communists have not been able to entirely do away with protests; Tibetans are not giving up; the Modi government is inching towards the Chinese model and it is not going to help. Dissent has to be assented to. Modi government has hit out at two more films: March, March, March and The Unbearable Being of Lightness as Modi is uncomfortable with the Left and Dalits. Some time ago PM Modi tried to usurp Mahatma Gandhi in a khadi calendar. Amit Shah has dubbed Gandhi a 'chatur baniya'. Is it a prelude to banning The Story of My Experiments with Truth written by that chatur baniya, M.K. Gandhi in Gujarati? Or editing Experiments? Will the many Ramayanas and Mahabharatas be also made In Briefs ....? Today, 2017, anything can happen to diminish freedoms. Thats the lone certainty. I am sorry, very sorry, Kashmiris, Vemula, young of JNU.
Monday, June 12, 2017
.... Fallen Chinar
Can a fallen chinar give shade? Kashmiris are trying. On youtube, saw twice the short film of Shawn Sebastian - In the shade of the Fallen Chinar. Liked it. Young faces, handsome men and lovely women, giving up guns, taking up poetry, paint brushes, Sufi music, producing a magazine at the Kashmir University to decontain their pain and there is no denying Kashmiris are in pain, a deep hurt which will not go, perhaps forever. Can Sikhs ever detox 1984? There are 500 to 600 chinars in the campus for the young to talk to. Some shade. Chinars have been there always; doubtful if they will be around. Why is New Delhi denying the film's existence? What exactly is unbhakt about it? Towards the end, a young man attends prayers at the tomb of his friend, downed by the Army. Yes, The Indian Express is to the point when it ends a third edit - Keep it irrelevant - 'After decades of official repression, we now like our films socially irrelevant; truth-seekers like Sebastian should give us a break.' Yes, New Delhi has broken Sebastian. Thanks be. Try as Prime Minister Modi may, Kashmir cannot be solved without Insaniyat. Me has only one ordinary solution. Table Talk with all; together, separately; and with all; starting with young men and women, their parents; and all politicians; keep talking; talking can be tiring; talking allows all to live. There is simply no way out. Bullets and army boots will surely fail, if they have not failed. As a start keep the Kashmir University and schools open, always. Siddartha Sankar Ray and Jyothi Basu in the 70s killed and tortured Naxals and today The Indian Express has a front page lead story: Spreading their footprint, Maoists map new zone of operations in three states. India will have to find ways to live with protests; the poor are hungry; their lands and cattle are being taken away; they will protest as they get to read the alphabets of dissent; the poor make the majority in me country; even the cruel Chinese government of Communists have not been able to entirely do away with protests; Tibetans are not giving up; the Modi government is inching towards the Chinese model and it is not going to help. Dissent has to be assented to. Modi government has hit out at two more films: March, March, March and The Unbearable Being of Lightness as Modi is uncomfortable with the Left and Dalits. Some time ago PM Modi tried to usurp Mahatma Gandhi in a khadi calendar. Amit Shah has dubbed Gandhi a 'chatur baniya'. Is it a prelude to banning The Story of My Experiments with Truth written by that chatur baniya, M.K. Gandhi in Gujarati? Or editing Experiments? Will the many Ramayanas and Mahabharatas be also made In Briefs ....? Today, 2017, anything can happen to diminish freedoms. Thats the lone certainty. I am sorry, very sorry, Kashmiris, Vemula, young of JNU.
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