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Suddenly! The world is changing around us in Jammu!

MAJOR KULBIR SINGH. Dated: 10/17/2017 11:19:54 AM

Major Kulbir Singh
Jammu, Oct 16
Well to begin with I am not boasting or trying to show off but I’m trying to tell you the reality. We are living in a world of our own. It is often talked subject the best of the swimmers can drown may be in a flowing river or the still waters of the pool. Jammu at one time was considered as a dwarf (which was virtually true but failed to understand the periodicity of life) but now have grown up as giants (who know what realism is). The people here in Jammu (that includes me) have changed. They understand till they live they can be seen but when no more they will not be remembered at all! I think it is beginning of realization. Who cares about statues on various roundels now. In this fast world statues do not matter what matters is how well you do in the life span you have!
What I am assured of is no one loves to get up from the bed before half past ten or may be nine. Those who get up at half past five or before know that they have to get to the temples or children who have their classes (tutorial) at six and then have to rush to the schools. The population of those going to the temples has decreased and those going to tutorials has increased. As a man in mid fifties I can understand the fact that education gets you united and religion disintegrated. By the way Jammu and Kashmir has been the greatest victim of that (I am not a philosopher, thinker but what I see I can write).
Today Jammu has a conglomeration of all sorts and I need not elaborate since I understand that the people from all over have settled here. Then here a food for thought, ‘if they are earning a living here then why could not they do in their own land (I mean the state form where they belonged to?) The case in point is why are they pouring into Jammu and ensuring that the aborigines of Jammu are getting vanquished! Yes since the time is short in a day and we all have no time to see and think as to what is happening around. Mumbai, Delhi and Ajemdabad were the first victims of this influx (no one has time to peep into history today since every one has a one liner (Is Bakwas ko Kaun Parega). When the influx gets bigger in size and unmanageable the problems begin to arise and then the political diction also changes. Take Rohngiya invasion into Jammu. They are a problem. If they could not settle in Myanmar and created problems there then it is a conclusion that they would here too (Mehmaans in Kashmir became a ridiculous problem and Kashmiris no that.) By the way it is not a bravery to beat a dead cat.
This is not a lie but a fact. ‘We are hoping fro a better tomorrow but are losing out in the present. Gambling in life is good but only for a moment but in the larger context when you have no time left (I mean years to live then you realize, ‘if I could do this or that). But then the time does not support you. No doctor or a ‘BAWA’ will have any cure. Trust me it is a reality! Just think over it. I will be back tomorrow!