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| TRUTH AND TRAVEL THE INSIDE STORY OF UPROOTED JOURNALIST | | | | JAMMU June 02,2025:-
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The displacement of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley of Kashmir started in the year 1990 and the whole world knows this very well. I will show you the reality and the story of Kashmiri Pandits so that I can try to explain to the whole world what is the real truth of secular India so that I am able to fulfill my responsibilities and religion.
If I start the story by explaining the atrocities and oppressions happening to me, then surely tears will flow from your eyes too, for which I have been trying for centuries to get rid of in my own country.
I have been so scorched by the fire of displacement that there is no more room in my heart to bear the pain.
I would have faced incidents of hooliganism, arson, fireworks, firing in one form or the other but the vote bank politics and wrong lectures on secularism by the political leaders involved in the governments of India have devastated me.
The Indian government never understood the dates and values of my life. The policy adopted towards me and people of my community is shameful and in the future history will never forgive the leaders of today. Those who took our votes in the name of Hindutva gave us deep wounds and betrayed us.
We know how we left the valley of Kashmir in a helpless situation at that time and the way the political leaders looked at us is a matter that puts the entire world to shame.
The truth should not be hidden and the lie must be exposed eventually and being a journalist I neither hesitate nor compromise on this subject.
The story of the atrocities committed against me by the Government of India is very painful and sad.
When I had to migrate from the valley of Kashmir like the rest of the people, I was selected for the post of Cashier cum Clerk in Jammu and Kashmir Bank, but my fate was in a bad shape just like farmers usually have to bear losses due to hailstorm.
Actually, we had no idea of the roads and trails and what kind of situations we would have to face and so it so happened that I had to spend the first dark night after leaving home on the roadside. As soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, I saw where I had reached, it seemed like a wonder, neither I knew anyone nor anyone knew me.
As soon as my life of struggle started, I started realizing that the place where I have come from, the language used is different, the culture is different, the identity is different, the clothes are different, the mood of weather is hot and cold and even the method of environmental consumption of food seems different.
In those days, the government was setting up camp camps for Kashmiri Hindu refugees with cloth tents in the sandy plains and I too stayed in a tent up to several years where snakes, scorpions and insects were always seen all around and many people even died after getting bitten by them.
How painful life had become on lonely roads, being harassed by flies during the day and bitten by mosquitoes at night. Getting a complete education without any sleep was a big challenge.
In those days, the Government of India was giving monetary help of only Rs. 500 per month and to get an education, one had to go to work during the day and study at night amidst the mosquitoes and under candles.
On one hand, some bigots were setting fire to the residential houses of Pandits in the valley of Kashmir and occupying their lands, while on the other hand, we were troubled by our tents being blown away by rains and storms. My books, bought with my hard-earned money, were ruined many times.
Even then I did not give up the struggle of life and worked hard day and night, I successfully got a good sound education in the field of professional journalism, art culture and learned several Indian languages with good response. Besides all this I have qualified many exams on an All India basis to get a government job. But the intention of the Indian Government towards us was not at all clear. Government jobs were being given to stone pelters, people who burnt schools, trains, bridges and government buildings and this policy of the Indian Government is still continuing.
Whatever I say, I do so based on true events. The Government of India recruited those candidates who did not appear in any competitive examination with me through the backdoor entry and created a black history in black letters.
After the year 2014, such incidents have happened and are being witnessed which are putting us to shame. The government of India encouraged and promoted yellow journalism across the country and deliberately made attempts to restrain the real journalists from freedom of expression for the unknown reasons known by the present administration.
The present government has failed to provide us employment opportunities. Despite knocking the doors of the courts and getting orders from there, but there has been no change in the government's intentions, while the question mark has already been raised on the people who have been recruited surreptitiously on priority basis without their participation in the selection process for making them happy for vote ballot policy.
I am an Indian by birth but in secular India I has been discriminated on the basis of religion, color, language, and region unlawfully, otherwise I was selected to the number of posts after participation in selection process on all India basis but unfortunately, I have been also restrained from the freedom of expression, I have been also restrained to do any job in India for to look after my family. I have even applied for loan facilities and been deprived of that right also. After being displaced from my native village and on the basis of the region discrimination I have also restrained myself from doing any business to earn my livelihood. The big black hole of secularism betrayed me in India.
(The author of this article is Ashok Raina Editor of daily Northern Times)
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