Ajay Kapoor
Everyone must realize the fact that the people in Kashmir are people too, with normal human attributes like feelings and emotions. We are not just freedom fighters, stone pelters, and terrorists.
We are living now in an Independent democratic State and have also adopted the form of the Welfare State. In a welfare State, it is normally expected that there will be a less scope for poverty and thereby the scope for ignorance will be minimal. But for running a very smooth State contribution of youth towards the well being of the State is most important, as it is very rightly said by Swami Vivekananda that ‘Youth is the pillar of nation’.
The mayhem on streets and the resultant clampdown in Kashmir mirrors, in part, the turmoil in the state. The Kashmir Valley has been hit by massive protests, violence and deaths. The Kashmir conflict has now endured for more than a decade and a half and has claimed between 30,000 and 50,000 lives. Most of the lives lost were in the brutal warfare that did not distinguish combatants from non combatants. As a result of this prolonged conflict, the whole state is in deep distress and suffering.
As the Kashmir Conflict is a great burden for India, Pakistan and the people of Jammu & Kashmir and the whole of South Asia, it is very important to find a resolution for the conflict. An its like dream come true that one of the greatest personality- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji — a humanitarian, spiritual leader, an ambassador of peace and founder of Art of Living has taken a step forward to provide with the solutions to this multi dimensional issue. As an ambassador of peace, Guru ji will give positive solutions for the conflict resolution and will spread his vision of non violence. As Guru ji is regarded as a neutral figure with a sole agenda of peace, he will help the people in conflict to regain hope.
In a welfare State, the responsibilities of the State increase and also the activities of the youth will expand considerably to see more progressive and prosperous state that is free from strife. As far as the buoyant view is concerned, the contribution of youth enormously plays a very highly significant role in forwarding the state’s welfare in a direction which can guide the governance of the State in its right perspective. Under these circumstances youth happen to be the actual architect of any state.
Ours is a developing Nation and we have the youth in our state who have never lagged behind in making great strides in the last few decades in the field of sports, education, agriculture etc. In order to see our youth more flourishing, we need to promote our youth on all fronts enabling them to remain firm on their own legs to challenge their obstructive hurdles while making progress to build the Nation.
But ironically it is witnessed that there is tendency among some people to violate the laws made by the State in an attempt to disturb the peace and tranquillity of the nation. The elements existing in our societal set up are hell-bent upon to create hurdles for those who are in the process of making progress. In the light of this, it is necessary that a citizen should not be passive observer to what all happens in the society. It is not correct to expect only the law enforcement agencies to tackle the problem of crime in the society.
For instance a problem of stone pelting by anti-national groups has become common in Kashmir. These stone pelters who generally fall in the age group of 15-20 years have fallen prey in the hands of anti-national groups masterminded by separatists in the Valley. These groups do not realize that they are harming the future career of these youth who get trapped for violating the laws of the lands. When these anti-national groups would start realizing that their encouragement to such school going boys would be an encouragement to the criminals who in future would be more confident in continuing their criminal activities. By giving such an undue pat to such innocent youth to instigate them to resort to pelting during any protest demonstration or in any religious rally is a horrible sin on their part as such the masterminded elements are only aimed at to derive their personal illegal and undue benefits by keeping a gun upon the shoulders of innocent youth.
WAYS TO COMBAT:
The counselling needs to be much more effective so that their children may not take much time to realize their acts of perpetration. The parents are required to advise their kith and kins to realize the pros and cons of their resorting to misdemeanours.
They should be asked to avoid their participation in such protesting demonstrations which are illegal and against the Nation. What we need urgently is prevention of such undesirable activities as are often indulged into by these youth at the behest of such groups.
Let us make that happen. Each one of us living in the valley wants to lead a very peaceful life because amidst so many atrocities and onslaughts resorted to by terrorists during terrorism in Kashmir valley made to suffer Kashmiri people to face woeful and miserable days during the previous times. In fact people have shunned the violent culture; it has yielded nothing except hardships and trouble. And it has been firmly observed and opined that lasting sustainable prevention of violence would come in the form of peace and peace is requisite for development.
As no one invests in State unless everlasting peace is restore in the State. Let us shun the habit of planting sense of doubt. Separatists need to forbid from emphasizing the communal colours. They are advised to try and drum up positive social sentiments for everyone. The current global scenario does not offer much leverage for such an approach. It is utmost important for them to correct their situation. A very appropriate time and stage have come to reshape and rectify those polities as are aimed to weaken it.
As it is a well known fact that the Art of Living has always been deeply involved in conflict resolution, so the conference on “Kashmir Back to Paradise” would prove to be boon for the state.
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