Let love flow unconditionally.................
Christening this Valentine as 'INDO-PAK LOVE & PEACE DAY',baskets full of flowers,glowing diyas and a facsimile of a gun with a message"Stop Sending Guns...Send Love"were floated in the gushing waters of the elegant Chinab in Akhnoor
Times of India,Jammu Plus,16th of Feb 2008
Report by Rajan Kour Akhnoor
It kept flowing passionately,as if well aware of its baptism as the 'River of Lovers'. Having immortalised itself in the folklore of Sohni Mahival,classicaly flowing Chinab--the respite for the adoring legendary lovers,assurdly carried the message of love for the neighbour Pakistan on the Valentine's Day.
Christening this Valentine as 'Indo-Pak peace & Love Day',baskets full of flowers, glowing diyas and facsimile of a gun with the message"Stop sending guns,send love now" were floated in the gushing waters of the elegant Chinab in Akhnoor,one of the closest connective to Pakistan from Jammu.
Having swallowed up almost 50,000 innocent lives,the two decades of terrorism in the state of Jammu & Kashmir has literary played havoc with the populace.Sources put that more than 30 thousand guns and more than 35 lakh rounds have been pumped into the state to perpetuate the violence against its naive inhabitants.
The initiative of a woman called Dukhtar-e-Hind(daughter of India),Dr. Darakhshan Andrabi,the nationalist voice resonating with prideand love for the nation,the message for Pak President Musharraf and the people of Pakistan read,"We the people of J&K are happy with India,allow us to remain happy.We wish you peace and happiness."
Darakhshan and her colleagues from all regions and religions stood in the nimble water of Chinab to send an intense message of urge for peace and love to the neighbour.
In Darakhshan Andrabi, a woman apparently with soft demeanor,resides a forceful nationalist who without a cosideration for the life is moving ahead with the agenda of nationalism.Expresses Darakhshan, "My religion teaches me nationalism and I have never cared for the consequences to raise mt voice in my country's support amid the terror".
The sky was filled with colourful heart shaped balloons gesturing a wish for happy and joyful life for the people of Jammu & Kashmir who have undergone the agony of having lost their loved ones to the deadly monster of terrorism.
Conspicuous by their presence were people from all religions who seemed desparate to let Pakistan know of their spirited love for their motherland as echoed"Hindustan Zindabad",lending an inimitable gusto of nationalism to which the serene environs and lavish waters would remain a testimony.
Darakhshan and her Socialistic Democratic Party,colleagues plan to undertake similar venture through river Jehlum in the Valley. All these individuals are propagating an idealogy for the end of gun culture which has engulfed many unaware youth into its fold.
"Is desh ki mitti ka bhi mujh par karz hai" ,(I am indebted to the soil of my land),avers a sentimental Darakhshan, a woman who owns a strong heart to stand against the tide.Kites never rise with the wind but against the wind, it holds appropriate for the young Darakhshan from the downtown Srinagar.
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