Help Kashmir!

Winters- Wild & Beautiful

Wular in winter

Harvest in the Valley

What amazes me most is the total rubish that get published in papers and magazines. I wonder if the people of the world will ever come to know whats the true story. I really wish both the goverments would stop making a joke of what is THE most beautiful place on Earth. An obscene amount of money has been pushed in to the state and an even more obscene number of lives have been lost. The people are trully disgusted with the political games being played. The youth are distraught, jobless and being lured into drugs and alcohol. Wood smugling is rife. Did you know that a smugller, to go to a forest and cut one tree and haul it back to the road, is paid Rs 150/- or around $3.00! Do you know that the media reports regarding unmarked graves did not say that most graves in Kashmir are unmarked…. only a head stone is placed.. its common pratice. In any case, which ‘Human Right Violator’ would kill an innocent and put him in a registered grave in a registered grave yard! I have not seen one non-Kashmiri reporter cover events inside Kashmir. Even parents and siblings of Army officers serving there are clueless of what is the ‘Kashmir Problem’. Actually they could’nt careless. Somebody else’s problem I guess.