The other day I got an invite from one of my friends to
‘like’ his page on facebook. The page was related to something like ‘Kashmir
Parkour Freerunning Team’. This sport was new to me and I did some research as
to what it was upto. Enlightened with the basics of this comparatively new
sport, I sensed that it had a huge potential in this part of the world. Atleast
the ‘Freerunning’ part of the name would suggest that.
We, Kashmiris,
are used to this thing for a pretty good amount of time now. Terms like
chasing, running, thronging, escaping have somehow become part and parcel of
our discourse. People, especially children, are chased by canines and in the
subsequent freerun, they may well get entangled in the web of the wires of
liberty (and freedom) also called as Concertina wires. These wires are
themselves related to a different kind of freerunning and chasing. When our
freerunners have nothing to do, they raise up the fists of resilience (and
arrogance) and aim at the chasers who in turn chase them out of the sight. Some
of those chased may even end up in the Jhelum only to be fished out at a later
time. Aimed at preventing the chasers being thronged by the freerunners, these
wires often cause a few hiccups in the corridors of the power where those in
power have to give lengthy accounts of the procurement and budget details of
these precious wires to those who are still chasing power.
Come Ramadan,
our Nafs chases us to beyond the
curtain Restaurants where we chase even the Satan
away with our sumptuous eating. Same holds good for any ‘good’ marriage
feast where the number of dishes may well exceed the strength of the Baraat. And then Eid follows. And then
everyone wants to break free and chase away all the good habits which we may
have acquired in the preceding month. We plan getaways which occasionally turn
into escapades to death. Why? We… the chased try our hands at chasing our
fellow drivers and ultimately both of us get off the track (chased into death).
Long live the freerunners! Another cycle of chasing and freerunning begins
here. The Hakeems of the world
supposed to be at the Shafa Khanas have
escaped their way into their homes for celebrating freedom (from the bondage of
the ‘Blessed month’!). Finding no one to cure the off track drivers, the
freerunners again raise the fists of arrogance and chase humility, brotherhood
and amity away out of the sight of even the far sighted. Damaging Hospitals,
Schools, Computer centres, Offices while on the free run is what we are expert
at. I guess freerunning cant have a better explanation anywhere else in the
world.
This doesn’t
stop here. Drama continues….. The chasers (janbaaz
sipahees) arrive and chase away the freerunners. Those who wont run and
instead try to walk the path of truth, justice and amity…….walk! They walk towards the four walled chambers of Disturbed
Areas where Public Safety & Special Powers are of prime concern and no one
give a serious think about who is trying to walk (through his life as a normal
being) and who is on the run (perverted and arrogant).
We do chase
dreams as well! Dreams as wild as getting Justice from the ‘highest seat of
Justice’ of the largest Democracy. In the process, we find some strange
companions who supposedly want to help us. They even brand our ‘Ameer-e-freerunning’ as the biggest
wisher of Peace. But their actions elsewhere in the largest Democracy suggest otherwise.
These octogenarian companions of ours plead cases for the oppressors, fake
encounter specialists, rioters and men behind the Govt. sponsored pogroms in other
parts of the world and in this part of the world, do a volte-face and behave as
messiahs of peace, amity and brotherhood! Strange are the ways people toy with
We… the Chased.
Keep Chasing………………………….
“Long live freerunning (‘resistance’)”. They say!
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Epilogue:
A group of youth went to Pahalgam on Eid eve. On their return, met an accident... few of them died and few more got injured. As the injured were rushed to hospital, the staff was out to their homes, for celebrating Eid. Result: Vandalization of the hospital building and subsequent arbitrary arrests.
Meanwhile, a prominent lawyer of India, Ram Jethmalani has expressed his wish to represent in court various Kashmiris languishing in jails. He is the same lawyer who is representing Amit Shah, one of the preperators of the Muslim genocide of Gujarat!
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