How A Kashmiri Feels About The End Of Article 370

Brut India

“Helpless, sleepless, numb and harassed.” Srinagar’s Tabinda Qadri, who works in a New Delhi software firm, shared her feelings with Brut India about the abrogation of Article 370.

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00:00but Kashmir I personally I am crying since four days I'm helpless I am I am

00:07helpless just understand this point I am asking one question to the Indian

00:11government only one question I am ready to accept anything and anything and

00:15everything was this a way

00:30I work in Delhi I work in the corporate office you are far from home you're not

00:45speaking to your parents when you know there's a war like situation there are

00:49thousands and thousands of troops over there what are they their cause we are

00:54feeling helpless we are not sleeping since days we are we have no

00:58communication channel we don't know if our parents are find it people are like

01:04they are harassing us they are saying we will buy land we will do this we will do

01:12that it's it's harassing we will marry Kashmiri we will marry Kashmiri girls

01:16yeah we are we are seeing these screenshots people are making fun of

01:23370 article that is not just a land maybe you are treating is either land

01:28it's not our home our family is there we have our people there I'm not able to

01:34speak I'm not I don't know I am they have left us like in the condition of

01:41mental harassment this is human genocide people I know they are not they are not

01:45using arms they are not using fire they are not using bullets there but yeah

01:50people are dying there you might not know that but people are dying there I

01:54am helpless I am I am helpless just understand this point I don't know words

01:59have meaning words are supposed to be carrier very rude meaning when you say I

02:03love you to someone love is a very can you can you just can you express what is

02:08love when people tell you what is love so I don't know if you will understand

02:11what is helplessness what is restlessness I am feeling these two I

02:16am getting numb I don't have any idea about my family also I know by the grace

02:21of Allah they are fine over there see what what what is the situation there

02:25a girl can have a pandora so la setra at a CRPF valet I know they are not

02:31protesting I know but I also know that I don't know because I have been in

02:37Kashmir maybe curfew may be when I didn't have food

02:40because of the curfew we have spent more than six months in

02:46house arrest technically and this kind of situation this was article 370 it was

02:51a very big deal for the whole world this was not meant to be done like this and I

02:55don't know if my parents are eating having food there are people who are

02:58having asthma attacks there are people who are having heart attacks there are

03:02people who have arthritis they cannot carry one or two days without the

03:07therapy session there are people who are who are who have cancer and there are

03:12parents who are in Hajj there are students who are outside Kashmir I am

03:16asking one question to the Indian government only one question I am ready

03:19to accept anything and anything and everything was this a way justify me

03:25justify this thing to me was this a way is this right now I think this is not

03:31about Kashmir this is about India this is about anything this is about

03:35everything every state every union territory if this happened to us this

03:39can be happened to you Kashmir is it's not a home it's a feeling it's although

03:44I am very much concerned about my family because Jahan hai toh Jahan hai but

03:49Kashmir I personally I am crying since four days

03:54merko apni maa baap ki shakal saamne nahi aa rahi hai merko apni zameen ki shakal saamne aa rahi hai

04:00I I can I can just visualize Dal lake I can just visualize future how it

04:06will be and all I can see is a darkness and if Indian government is thinking

04:12this was for the good this was for the empowerment of the Kashmiri people this

04:16is this is good for Kashmir you know they are saying industry jobs so we I

04:21can accept it in some way all right but if the beginning is this I wonder what

04:28will be the end

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