Thread by @Khushishuja

Dear #Kashmir, a thread (4)
My love, I know you are okay. I was just checking in. I know I seem so desperate. You probably can't stand the sight of me. I ignored you for a better part of a decade and now I keep springing back to you like a dog on a short leash. Sorry again 1/?

Sorry that this half assed apology is all I have left to give you. Kashmiris forsake their life in your name and here I am wallowing in my sorrow not realising what you are probably going through this very minute. Allah only knows which area, which alley,nook they are barging 2/?

into and abducting another young Koshur lad. His mother screams staining your mystic and serene night's sky. I am shivering just thinking about it in my very orange room. Kashmir, even in death they didn't spare us a shred of dignity. I saw on insta they were handing out 3/?

sheets of paper that announced people's DEATH as of it were a bill from the pharmacy!! A whole human life worth memories and loved ones and countless mornings of Noon Chai reduced to just sheets of paper. That is all they got. Kashmir, ask Allah what life is this? Who gets to 4/?

decide who lives and dies without a shred of dignity? Why such a stark discernment in lives of people. I don't mean to be blasphemous I understand we are Allah's servants and his discretion is ultimate but why not end us all? Why pick out the vulnerable like weeds and make 5/?

them live through an authoritarianism that is run by mere humans, zealots. I get natural disasters, we destroyed our planet acre by acre and now the planet wants revenge. Rightfully so, it's always a shame when a natural disaster occurs but it is a slap in the face to dingbats 6/

like Trump who believe climate change is a 'hoax' or the idiots running the G7 countries that could only allot 20 million to save the Amazon when I saw on insta the budget for #thebossbaby was a whopping 200 million? Yeah Kashmir I don't get this world either. Wait till I 7/?

you what that movie is even about (rolls eyes). I had sweetcorn and an apple today. The corn was nowhere near that grows in your fields and the apple was okay. Just okay. Did you hear? I finally spoke to BADIMAMA today!! Yes, after 5 weeks, her voice was still warm and the way 8/

I recall from my earliest memories, where you were so serene Kashmir. Are serene, my bad. Kashmir, it was Labour Day weekend and an old friend from school was enjoying the Canadian sun in front of a beautiful lake. It truly was gorgeous but it couldn't be compared to you. 9/?

Not even close. You're ethereal. It also marks the Islamic New Year, making it 1441 Hijri. I forget where you are, time has forcefully stopped. Ma says life is nothing but a string of inconsistencies and temporaries. Just like the tides the world functions the same. Let's hope.

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