J K NEWS TODAY

Jammu, August 2:

 

A  self- woven deception  has  been cleared , and  now the students in J&K know who they are ?  The duplicity in their education curriculum and  the discourse of being different from the rest of the country in classrooms has been replaced by a real sense of the unity and integrity of one country .

What has become  clear to them by  whatever they have heard ad learnt after August 5, 2019, is that there is no parallel educational system nor history of J&K in their curriculum . They are one with the rest of the country by way of the historic  changes that were effected on August 5 last year when the special status of J&K was scrapped and J&K was brought at par with the other places in the Indian nation.

This part  would be better understood  if there is a little bit of recall of the history  in which education in Kashmir suffered  time and again – the street protests, clashes and casualties  kept the schools shut , and they were dragged into conflict  in 2010 and 2016, when Kashmir was rattled by the  protests and killings . The schools were also burnt including the prestigious institution. The bigger onslaught  was on the government schools .

With schools shut and the streets riddled with  stones and blood , the children saw the gory images. They are unable to shed these images , and every time on a big or small scale it happened, they were told that this is happening because there was a “ Kashmir dispute”. These protests would often graduate to the demand of “ Azadi” and there was humiliation of all the symbols  which represented India .

Now, there doubts have been cleared, because they often used to ask : if  they were living in a “ disputed territory – this  deception was also consolidated by teachers in many places  across the Valley  for many teachers recruited in the Valley had Jamiat-i-Islami background  which had created their own versions of history  and interrupted and misinterpreted  them . This  was the kind of  distortion ,  which now stands exposed .

Students in Kashmir know  now that what  was wrong with the Article 370  and how it served as a barrier between Jammu and Kashmir  and India. A year later, these questions can be answered easily. If two constitutions, two flags  and almost two parallel legislative bodies – parliament   and the J&K state legislature –  were there, the doubts were bound to be there . That had left an impression on the mind of the students and the people at large that there is something amiss that’s why they  were not  as much part of the  country  as  others in the country .

The Article 370 was becoming a sort of perceived shield against the central laws as also the entry of Indians from rest of the country on permanent basis, even  if it was for the investment and boosting employment . This was a sort of subversion  of the economic activities  and forward-looking  approach . In short, it was a cocooned mindset that was flourishing.

Now with students gradually reaiising that the things  have  come out so clearly , leaving no scope for the mischief in the streets , environment and schools. This will give a new shape to new future in Kashmir , because all the mischief of the past has been  buried once and for all.