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| Dussehra sets another unique example of 'composite culture' in Rajwar | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
Kupwara, Oct 3: Yet in another example of traditional composite culture and brotherhood in flood affected valley where people irrespective to religion and caste helped each other, a special pooja to mark auspicious Vijaydashmi (Dussehra) was held amid religious rituals at Baderkali Temple of Rajwar in Kupwara district of north Kashmir. Local Police, Army, CRPF, and large number of local Muslims served the pandit community here on Friday after the rituals ended.
Dussehra marks the beginning of the month long period of festivities in Hindu, starting on the 1st day of the Hindu month of Ashwin (September-October), ending with the festival of Diwali, on the first day of the following Hindu month of Kartik which also is believed as the end of the rainy season.
One of the participants in the today's rituals, Vijay Kumar while sharing his experiences about the festival with Early Times said, "Dussehra falls after nine day long Navratras festivity and is celebrated across the India in different ways but objective seems always to be similar i.e. a celebration to mark the 'victory of goodness over evil'.
"On Dussehra, the Rajputs and army personnel worship their weapons as these are considered means of fighting injustice and to weed out evil," he said.
Another devotee Shashikala Devi living here for the last five decade said thatwe understand that last twenty years has changed the situations including demography of Kashmir but we are living here peacefully. She also hoped the Kashmiri pundits will return back to their homeland in near future.
Referring to recent floods which took many precious lives and damaged property worth crores, she said, "We feel the pain of those who lost everything and on this occasion we can only pray for betterment and prosperous future life."
"The majority of Muslim community always maintained our Kashmiri culture which symbolizes love, integrity and respect to each other," she said, adding, "Muslim brethren always stood by us, whenever we faced any sort of problems, they approached us and we are highly thankful to them for their ths humane gesture."
"We pray to our God (Baghwan) that let Dussehra brings peace and prosperity to the state" Devi expressed.
Here it needs to mention that Muslims in Kupwara district in a bid to express their solidarity with minority community serve milk in earthen pots to the devotees in bid to keep alive the centuries-old tradition of Hindu-Muslim amity in Kashmir Valley.
"Many things might have changed, but the love, affection and respect we have for our Pandit brothers will never change", said Abdul Gaffar of Rajwar.
He said that "Kashmir is the homeland of Pandits and we sincerely wish them to return to the Valley."
He recalled that during turmoil in state, the many local Muslims of North Kashmir especially from Kupwara district used to arrange all Puja items (Samgari) for the visiting devotees to Bhaderkali temple on various religious occasions.
Continuing goodwill gesture, Jammu and Kashmir, CRPF, Army and district administration has arranged transportation and other facilities for pundit community in the camps who were stalled there for some days. |
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