Yesterday came like bolt from the blue Government of India's surprise announcement about Article 370 on Kashmir which should henceforth allow Indians outside the state to settle down there. The state of Kashmir is often alluded as "Paradise on Earth". On the social media there is a growing wishlist of starting from buying plots overlooking Dal Lake and Chinaar trees, to marrying Kashmir girls.
Most of these flood of wishes can be caltegorized as pure GULLI KHATTI (nonsense chatting to pass time). But surprisingly I saw a sizable number of serious enquiries if they can marry the nubile, fair skinned Kashmiri girls and settle down in the valley (there is always a perennial craze for fair skinned women in India and Kashmir vouches for most).
I have little knowledge of Article 370 and little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. From whatever I gather, it is a bold step in the right direction. But how far it will contribute in solving or even ameliorating the well entrenched Kashmir crisis, only time will bear the testimony of that.
But overnight settling down with Kashmir girls in the turbulent region is strictly fantasy, rather on the periphery of sheer hallucination. This is a classic case of NAI NA DEKHUNU LANGALA, which transliterated from Odia means - "Becoming naked before seeing the river". In other words, jumping into conclusions too fast, too soon.
It brings me flashbacks from the year 1991. Months after Iraq lost the Gulf war to the American Allied forces, there was this serious rumor in Odisha - that there is a dearth of males in Iraq who perished during the war followed by high number of war widows. The Government of Iraq as relaxed its Visa rules to allow every able bodied Odia to enter as full paid house guests to procreate as many children as possible during their stay.
Added to this myth - Only SANDHA MARKA TOKA (Bullish males) from Odisha, with tremendous physique and immense stamina meeting such demand will be granted this coveted Iraqi visa. Once the demand is fulfilled, the hosts and the guest had enough, plenty of bastards produced, the male is free to return home.
Such kind of fantasy is not unusual, especially in a sex starved milieu. It could be very well be the daydream of an Odia youth feeling hot after consuming a stomach full of PAKHALA for lunch on a hot day afternoon ( PAKHALA is locally consumed water soaked rice blamed for the complacency and laziness of Odias as a race). Yet many bought the story and started enquiring if any agency was there to facilitate such trip to Iraq.
Now fast forward to almost 30 years, I can see some parallels and history repeating itself. The basic human nature has remained unchanged over the years, only the platform of expression has changed to social media which wasn't there in the year 1991. From Iraq to Kashmir, the dream of delivering PAKHALA KHIA progenies still thrives.
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