By M S Nazki
Children are flowers and they should be dealt with accordingly!
-‘The Indian Army is showing the children of new world in Jammu and
Kashmir the pine life sequence of future!’
-‘Forty years back a majority of Kashmiris (but not all) that behind
innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and
misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill
the unventilated mind. This was pure case of dangerous intent! Men at
that time were those (I’m talking about late eighties) who loved to
address people with fiery intents. This story could not have continued
for long! It did not and by the way how could it have!’
-’ Just got call from my friend that I was lagging behind! Just a
fifteen days casual leave to attend three deaths defied his logic for
putting across things that something desperate had happened! He never
asked any help but he is back as a crimson man who always loved
chrysanthemums’!
-‘Innocence can never perish; Blooms as fair in looks that cherish Dim
remembrance of the days. When life was young, as in the gaze of youth
himself all rosy-clad, whom but to see is to be glad.’
-‘We may think of children as being innocent, but the experience of
innocence is a way of being, a chosen state of mind–and one that can
be experienced at any stage of life. Four decades back something did
happen in the beautiful valley of Kashmir and children were swayed by
a culture that did not go well with the beautiful place!’
-‘But modern day parents are different, they want their children to
climb up the ladder to get their careers going and not get into a hell
zone!’
-‘Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict.
Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. This
happened in Kashmir too but someone was thinking about something
special for the children in Jammu and Kashmir and it had to be a
soldier! The picture tells the same story!’
-‘I do not think that anyone would differ with my statement! Indian
Army has changed the lifestyle of kids in Kashmir and the picture with
the story again depicts exactly that!’
-‘What can innocence hope for, when such as sit her judges are
corrupted! In Kashmir the judges were none other than men who went for
the extreme with their volatility ridden verbal onslaught!
-‘The verbal depiction of the tongue of men who had the script carved
out by then by interpreters sitting in Pakistan was spoiling the
children four decades ago’!
-‘But it is not so the case now! Things have changed now! Indian army
soldiers are spreading he message of love and affection! This I’m not
saying but the picture with this story depicts that!
-‘We in Indian Army love to solve out complex issues that exist
amongst the elders but with children w do not get complex because if
innocence exists today it is in the children and we in camouflages do
not want that the innocence of children to be destroyed and for that
education is a must!’
-‘Its innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it
doesn’t.’Innocence is back in Kashmiri children and ignorance is
weeding out! Arrogance is out of minds of Kashmiri children! This
definitely augurs well for the future of Kashmir! This is all courtesy
Indian Army and the soldiers who move into field, walk around and meet
the people and more importantly the children and this is what he
overriding code ‘Jawaan and Awaam is all about’
The Indian Army always believed in the fact that the innocent are the
first victims…. So it has been for ages past, so it is now.
Obviously they have to be children and thus massive plans were
unleashed for the blossoming children or Kashmir apples and almonds of
future!
Another thing the Olive Greens believe in is a straightforward fact
that It is better that ten guilty persons escape (because we can get
them later) than that one innocent suffer. It’s a child suffers the
most in conflicts like one that happened in Kashmir! It should not
have taken place but it did! The children suffered the most but not so
the case now! The children are loving the soldiers and the soldiers
needless to mention have always loved children because they have their
own waiting at their homes!
That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside
you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and
wrong that decency will somehow triumph in the end. That is what
being taught by the Indian soldiers to the children of Jammu and
Kashmir.
They (Indian Army) have another message to convey for the future
(where children will be born), ‘when we are children we seldom think
of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few
adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our
childhood behind. This has happened ever since the world has come into
existence but still children will remain children…..Innocent has
always!
Finally we will say that, innocence is the wonderment of life.’ Only
the children have it and who better than an Indian soldier understands
it better! Again the picture depicts that!






