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Pandit intellectuals show the ray which Gandhi had seen in 1947
4/11/2016 11:35:17 PM
While actor and social activist Anupam Kher was prevented
from Srinagar airport to visit the NIT to express solidarity with non-local students who were subjected to a rough deal at the hands of police, members of the institute staff and a group of local students, a group of intellectuals and academicians and doctors, belonging to the community of Kashmiri Pandits have appealed to desist from attacking Kashmiri Muslim students across India.
In fact this group of Kashmiri Pandit intellectuals was ostensibly peeved over the way some Kashmiri muslim students, studying in a Dental College in Rajasthan, were humiliated and harassed by the local students in reaction of the assault on non-local students in NIT, Srinagar. And this group of Pandit intellectuals have shown the grace for supporting people, belonging to any community, in distress. These intellectuals forgot what fate they had met at the hands of militants and groups of youth, supporting Pakistan sponsored insurgency during the 1988-1990 period in Kashmir which led to the exodus of over 3.50 lakh Pandits from their homeland of Kashmir valley.
"We urge not to mentally or physically harass Kashmiri students under any circumstance," the Kashmiri pandit group has said. The group has exhibited solidarity with the local students of NIT Srinagar as well.
These pandit intellectuals also wanted to ask the culpable students of Rajasthan what Kashmiri students in Vyas Dental College have got to do with anything that happened in NIT-Srinagar and even if there was. These intellectuals want to ask these young men, who seem to be unable to resist primal urge for violence, who gave them the right to hurt others ?
It is tragic that by resorting to cowardly beha-viour of intimidating and harming a minuscule group of non-local Kashmiri students they have besmirched Rajasthan's legacy of valour and righteousness.
They must realise they are being used to feed off sectarian violence. This is the message from Kashmiri Pandit intellectuals and one does hope that this message has some impact on those trying to play communal card in Kashmir which has already suffered a lot owing to ethnic tension.
These Kashmiri Pandit intellectuals have conveyed to fellow Kashmiri students in Rajasthan that Pandit intellectuals empathize with them in their hour of distress and that as intellectuals they are in solidarity with them. These Pandit intellectuals have announced that they will fight for right to education anywhere in India without any fear of violence looming over the head of groups of Kashmiri muslim students the pandit group has urged countrymen not to allow any Kashmiri student get hurt in any corner of the country, to desist from hate mongering and to prevent any such violent occurrence.
A rare feat shown by Kashmiri Pandit intellectuals. And another set of Kashmiri Pandits have berated the maltreatment meted out to non-local students in NIT, Srinagar. Once again if not muslims in Kashmir Pandit intellectuals from various areas of India have shown the ray which Gandhi had seen in 1947. In 1947 there were scenes of communal clashes, bloodshed and hatred but the vale of Kashmir was calm with muslims and Pandits standing side by side and sharing grief and pleasures. Let the local boys in NIT, Srinagar, emulate Pandit intellectuals and embrace all non-local students assuring their safety and safe stay in the institute. If the local students of NIT do it it will stem growing intolerance, communal hatred and ethnic disturbances.
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