Kashmir Quotes

“Everyone wants Kashmir but no one wants Kashmiris.
Aren't I a miracle? A seed that survived the slaughter & slaughters to come.
I think I believe in freedom I just don't know where it is.
I think I believe in home, I just don't know where to look.”
― Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting, there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs' graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders.”
― Mirza Waheed, The Collaborator

“Srinagar is a medieval city dying in a modern war. It is empty streets, locked shops, angry soldiers and boys with stones. It is several thousand military bunkers, four golf courses, and three book-shops. It is wily politicians repeating their lies about war and peace to television cameras and small crowds gathered by the promise of an elusive job or a daily fee of a few hundred rupees. It is stopping at sidewalks and traffic lights when the convoys of rulers and their patrons in armored cars, secured by machine guns, rumble on broken roads. It is staring back or looking away, resigned. Srinagar is never winning and never being defeated.”
― Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night

“From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.”
― Manu Joseph

“The Valley Weeps

Weep softly o mother,
the walls have ears you know...
The streets are awash o mother!
I cannot go searching for him any more.

The streets are awash o mother
with blood and tears, pellets and screams.
that silently remain locked in the air,
while they lock us souless inside.

The guns are out o mother,
while our boys go armed with stones,
I cannot go looking for him o mother,
I have no courage to face what i will find.

They fill the air o mother,
The fragrance of plastic flowers
I will place them beside your grave
if i ever do survive,
flowers that have no soul.
and would never fade with time,

The sun shines glorious o mother
The water sparkles so fine
The buds are closed in terror
and birds have gone silent with fear
There is poison in our heaven o mother
I dread for what more is in store.

They came for him o mother,
yesterday as you slept inside,
He went marching o mother
with all the others beside.
I never told you o mother,
I do not know if he would ever return.
The streets are awash o mother!
I cannot go searching for him any more.

Weep softly o mother,
the walls have ears you know...
If your old blind eyes can see,
You will want to see again no more.

Our men have lost their spirit
Our women have lost their smile,
Our children have lost their laughter,
The valley has lost its shine,
Weep softly O mother
For, we still have our pride.

17/07/2016”
― Srividya Srinivasan

“I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invited undue attention and that indescribable guilt. I wanted to somehow become invisible.”
― Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

“Despite their insecurity and despair in an India witnessing the rise of Hindu nationalism, most of my Indian Muslim friends were Indian nationalists. They disagreed with me and other Kashmiri students about our ideas of an independent Kashmir. They were afraid that the secession of a Muslim-majority Kashmir from India would make log worse for India's Muslims. Whenever a cricket match was screened on the television room of our hostel, my Indian Muslim friends cheered, sang and rooted for the Indian Fri let team. Kashmiris cheered for Sri Lanka or Pakistan, or whichever team played against India.”
― Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night

“That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, so it takes seventy thousand flowers to make a single pound.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“Despite their insecurity and despair in an India witnessing the rise of Hindu nationalism, most of my Indian Muslim friends were Indian nationalists. They disagreed with me and other Kashmiri students about our ideas of an independent Kashmir. They were afraid that the secession of a Muslim-majority Kashmir from India would make life worse for India's Muslims. Whenever a cricket match was screened on the television room of our hostel, my Indian Muslim friends cheered, sang and rooted for the Indian cricket team. Kashmiris cheered for Sri Lanka or Pakistan, or whichever team played against India.”
― Basharat Peer, Curfewed Night

“Was the tragedy of a Hindu in the twentieth century Kashmir any different from the agony of the Muslims or Jews of Granada, hundreds of years ago?”
― Heena Singhal, Songs of the Reed

“So, you want to know what is so special about Cashmirian apple, try one from US and then one from apple orchards of Kashmir. You will yourself realise the difference. No offense meant, but the taste and aroma cannot be described by mere words. You have to feel it to know it.”
― Sheikh Gulzar

“Ginkgo biloba has a long history of use in treating blood disorders and memory issues. It is best known today as way to potentially keep your memory sharp. Laboratory studies have shown that ginkgo improves blood circulation by opening up blood vessels and making blood less sticky. It is also an antioxidant.”
― Sheikh Gulzar

“In folk medicine today, the Sambucus nigra -Elderberry is widely considered one of the world’s most healing plants”
― Sheikh Gulzar-elderberry

“COVID-19 was an act of biological warfare on mankind. It was a financial theft. Nature was hijacked. Science was hijacked”
― echinacea purpurea and COVID-19

“If you any doubts regarding the disapproval of 5 Aug 2019 by JAMMU AND KASHMIR CITIZENS then please look at the recent DDC elections results. It was the first electoral exercise after 5 Aug 2019 and PAGD- People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration won entire Kashmir and even won 35 seats in Jammu. Poor BJP could only secure half of Jammu. This essentially means that the majority of J&Kites are against 5 Aug 2019. Or if this doesn’t suffice then please come to J&K and speak to every section of J&Kites and find out the truth for yourself. Go ahead do a survey!”
― People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration-Sheikh Gulzar

“Floods caused great destruction in different countries of the world including America, Japan, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Spain and China.”
― Flood Prevention : environmental impact statement. Volume D 1999 [Leather Bound] Departee Creek Wate

“In India, white color is given importance, so they try to make the trees white”
― Trees in India

“KH Khorshid stopped the President of Pakistan Ayub Khan at the place of Mangla in 1960 and said that from here onwards I am in the President, drove his car ahead and said Ayub Sahib, take off the flag, gave the flag of Kashmir from his car and said follow me It is my state from here on, that I am its head, this thing is a part of history.”
― Kashmir-Pakistan relations

“The berries and flowers of elderberry are packed with antioxidants and vitamins that may boost your immune system. They could help tame inflammation, lessen stress, and help protect your heart, too. Some experts recommend elderberry to help prevent and ease cold and flu symptoms.”
― Elderberry fruit plants of Kashmir

“Poke root (Phytolacca americana) is a flowering shrub with red-pink stems and black-purple berries. It’s native to the southwest and eastern regions of the United States, but it grows throughout the country. You can also find it in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Europe, and China.”
― Phytolacca americana plant

“We are being taught that "Akhand Bhart" was established before Adam A.S.?”
― India-Akhand Bhart

“The occupying countries, the three nuclear forces, have put everything not on the people of Jammu and Kashmir, but on the beauty of this land of Jammu and Kashmir. They want to occupy this land, not human beings!
The day when the three occupiers, Pakistan, India and China, any one of the occupiers tried to conquer the people here, then positive results can be obtained, hatred can be erased, but it is not possible for the three occupiers to have anything to do with the people here. No, but it should be green land”
― Jammu and Kashmir dispute

“Kashmir Willow-Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic Acid):** Originally derived from the willow tree’s bark, aspirin is one of the most widely used medications globally.”
― Saffron [email protected]

“Indian army camp has picked up civilians of Panchayat banghia from thana mandi area & are withholding information about them. Nor are their worried family members being allowed to see them at the camp who fear for their lives because of the Topi episode where civilians were tortured to death in custody. Request @manojsinha_ji to intervene before a similar tragedy strikes these poor families.”
― Custodial seaths in Kashmir

“Our voices are silenced, We are not allowed to Demand Justice & Mourn death of Innocent killings of Topa, Bufliaz .”
― Custodial Deaths in Pir Panjal ,Kashmir

“Dipsacus inermis is an edible Himalayan herb which is extensively used in traditional Asian system of medicine against various inflammation related disorders.”
― Sheikh Gulzar: [email protected]

“Saw palmetto berries may help prevent androgenic alopecia — a type of hair loss also known as male and female pattern baldness in men and women, respectively.”
― Sheikh Gulzar: [email protected]

“73 Years Later, the "A-Bomb" Ginkgo Trees Still Grow in Hiroshima

On August 6, 1945, an Allied plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, creating a fireball 1,200 feet in diameter. Disaster rained down upon the city, killing an estimated 150,000 people and leveling both the biological and man-made landscape. Little was left standing, but somehow the ginkgo trees were able to weather one of the most destructive moments in human history.”
― Sheikh Gulzar ([email protected])

“We all know Jews have a well connected network around the world cuz they are hated everywhere. So what's stopping Hindus from doing the same given they too get similar hatred?”
― Jews-Hindus

“The flag of Dr. Jalal is still flying today…. and there is no trace of Yazeed”
― Assassination of Dr. Jalal in Kashmir