Our bruised land speaks out
Numerous people believe that an evil monster has landed on our paradise like land. Some believe an evil eye has been casted on our peaceful soil
Farhad Ahmad Pir
Bruised pen of my younger tulips is running out of my hand but forcibly I get hold of this badly confused pen. By getting hold of it, it starts screaming and aches when I softly touched it. It is shocking of it, as it is reluctant at making its use, which it is made for. It makes me wonder and throws me into a deep thought. I try to over think about it and ask myself what kind of conditions is preventing it for its utilization.
After so many endeavors I get hold of it but this pen is still reluctant to jot down its own account of misery and helplessness. While holding the pen of my vulnerable brothers between my thumb and index finger, its whole body starts sobbing with pain and nostalgia. This pen is loaded with painful emotions and does not let to be heard its poignant tale as it knows that there is no vessel of justice in the world into which our grim tales can be poured.
Our songs of pain are knowingly being unheard and neglected. This pen could narrate and collect tales from many desolated hamlets, towns, cities and villages. I could say with hope that everyone in my no man’s land has a tragic tale to tell. We hapless people have plethora of heartbreaking narratives that are yet to be penned down.
My mind says that a work of a pen is to jot down other people’s happy life and sufferings and through this means to reach out to masses and other stakeholders with an aim to ameliorate problems too. But our ailing homeland does not give us a chance to note down other’s hard lives.
This right has been snatched from us since decades; we too have the capability to compete with others in every walk of life. There are some remnants quite evident to prove our hospital, civilized, competent, resourceful, peaceful and religious way of life. We are not self destroyers of peace what our media that is notoriously bound to defame our identity and hiding the reality.
It is propagating and creating negative image of our tender tulips and a situation has been made such as there is terror visible all across. A good number of people in our country with great brains never believe on a cock and a bull story of our media industry and are always advocating the real cause and yearn for permanent solution of our deserted land.
Here I share my personal experience, few days ago I met a professor of history from the other peaceful land which has been given a tag of new division recently, when a discussion broke out about our bruised motherland, she put forward her argument with logic and whole heartedly admire the denizens of forgotten land for their hospitality. She made responsible both inside and outside forces for the calamity that has befallen on our land and historically talked the peaceful condition of our state in middle eighties when tourists travelled on deluxe buses and white ambassadors without any threat on our homeland which is a paradise on earth. She yearns for the same peace to be revived.
Numerous people believe that an evil monster has landed on our paradise like land. Some believe an evil eye has been casted on our peaceful soil. Other believes it’s a curse from a holy man. What may be? All at the same time have devastated our peace of mind. Whether believing on these myths or whatever is happening in our abandoned land, it has greatly snatched our state of happiness, tranquility and systematic way of life.
Our mind is entirely in cataclysm and is unable to think something productive and meaningful. An unabated worst situation has stopped our mind to think beyond this mess. Such ugly circumstances have thrown us into a deep pit of quandary without a bottom. Not only this, it seems now we are made for it and ignoramus people outside and inside scorns and curses on our miserable condition of life.
Some unapprised people called the innocent inhabitants of my mother country the creators of their own self destruction and made only the denizens of my elapsed land responsible for this gruesome tragedy after tragedy.
Alas! It is not their mistake of interpreting we people as self destroyer but our media has spread a web of fake information and is selling falsehood in the name of so called nationality. This misinterpretation of outsider’s eye has dashed our hopes. Unfortunately there is nobody who keeps the agility and real understanding of mind to know the real cause of our misfortunes. No doubt some great minds who would be curious to know the true history and want to get the first hand information of our debilitated land then we open heartedly welcome them. Others two must be interested to know but it needs to have a broad set of mind and shunning out the fanatic and prejudicial mindset up.
We too are humans, have families, brothers, sisters, relatives, neighbors and have deep respect for our guests. We have the feelings like others. We want to live peacefully without any escalation of bloodshed. We want our educational institutions like schools, colleges and higher seat of learning to function properly without day today horrific repercussions. We want our dreams and unfulfilled wishes to be fulfilled. We want to earn name and fame as peace makers globally. If you have a right to live, let us live too and let others live.
(The writer is a teacher by profession)
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