What Have We LOST????

By Sagar Raina

According to last verse of chapter 18 of Bagwad Gita, the opulence,victory,extraordinary power, and morality is only possible where krishna and Arjuna are both Present. Krishna is an example of master of all mistics , which means He is the master of intellect or intelligence and Arjuna is an example of absolute Potency means Arjuna is most strengthed person. As a whole wherever there is presence of both intelligence and strength, there only victory, opulence, extra ordinary power and morality is absolutely certain.

Loosing Kashmir , our motherland , from our clutches is not what we have lost but lossing our intellect for which our ancestors were called as intellectual, is what we have lost. So even though if you have energy but you don't have intelligence, you are defeaters in the war.

What is this war? Is this war which I am refering to: the war of taking Pandits back to motherland kashmir? No ...This war refers to cultural degradation among our Kashmiri Pandit youths.

Moreover it is important for many of my youth friends to understand "what culture means?" In latin culture means " to cultivate"Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society."As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, games, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the art.

It means if one looses his culture , he has lost his identity. So Kashmiri Pandit youths are floating in the same boat whose driver has lost the direction of culture and is now wandering in a huge ocean of this world directionless and may extinct in this tempest of ocean very soon.

The only thing by which we can be still recognized as Kashmiri Pandits is our Mother tongue. But unfortunately today’s scenario is absolutely different. Youths nowdays hesitate and feel ashamed in speaking in Kashmiri. They say “they can understand but cannot speak” that is the most unfortunate part on us that still existing we are dead. For this tragedy I blame parents of these young Kashmiri Pandits who resisted their children at their homes to speak in Kashmiri.Automatically when they marry their children will be far away from Kashmiri language and in turn they will hesitate to call themselves as Kashmir Pandits.Kashmiri Pandits have a history of several migrations and those people who migrated to different parts of India centuries ago have forgotten their Kashmiri language, rituals, traditions etc. But their sir names are still kashmiri.They say they are not Kashmiri Pandits but their fore fathers were the same. Our next generation pandits will repeat the above statement again and hence Kashmiri Pandit community will remain no more.
I suggest all Kashmiri organizations who are raising voices for lost Kashmir must switch over to regain what actually we have lost. Lands will come again and again. But culture once lost cannot be regained. Kashmiri Pandit is a small community but consisting of many organizations, these organizations have been constantly raising voices for lost Kashmir but if we see ourselves internally we are lost. The resulatant of this cultural degradation is intercaste marriages.If the parents of young KP had imbibed the cultural relevance among their childrens , the case would have been different and favourable.

So start thinking over it fast and take actions because we have a short time left with us..otherwise KP community will be no more n next 50 years.