Paradise lost......and re-built!!

Have already changed the starting 3 tmies...I somehow can't figure out how to begin....but somehow listening to mission kashmir's song today, I just couldn't help but think about my 'roots' so to say.....

I was really young when we left Srinagar...in senior KG...but there still are many 'sights' etched perfectly in my memory as if I was there, present, just about..umm...yesterday!

The house we lived in...all of us..it was so huge.....with a 'wonderfully' big, very well maintained garden in front...lots of roses and panzies and 'dog-flowers'...(the name used to make me wonder do they actually bark...but to my diasspointment, they didnt.. ;-) )....the garden was fenced by lush green evergreen....Trust me...it was a huge place... :) I think I loved it... :)

Now the interiors...ummm....A verandah to start with....this place holds a lot of 'not-so-pleasent' memories for me....was responsible for giving me my 'mark'...the house had a staircase inside..that smelt of the freshly painted paint (what an irony!!)..I think it was painted pink..or magenta...we had that 'tring tring' phone to support the decor..if u know what I mean... :) MY room was to ur left, as soon as u entered the house...towards the rite hand side was the living room...go straight and left would have the 'bedding' room and right would be my grand-parents's room (I wonder if the english is right!! :-O)..

As I was 'known' for my 'socialising' skills, I think I remember quite a few of my neighbours houses as well....that was a nice place......really nice...though I have hardly spent any time there, but it was more 'homely' to me than the places that I have shifted into over the last 18yrs or so...

This house of mine was brought down on the 26th of January, 1991...the last remains in the valley.... I dont know was it good or bad, that we moved to this 'metro'...Most people might think I no longer 'belong' to that place called 'Srinagar, Kashmir'....after all I have spent most of my life here...there is no 'connection'...But am sure I'll have people who know me agreeing when I say that I feel I am more 'kashmiri' that probably most of the 'proper kashmiris', if not more, no less for sure!! :)

But I love it here as well...I love where I am...where I have been...where I have reached....I love everything about everything.....I am a happy soul....my paradise was never lost I guess..... :)
Hail Kashmir!! :D

Of fire & smoke & the valley....

Dhuan dhuan....dhuan dhuan....dhuan dhuan....dhuan hi dhuan...

Ye saazishein dishaon ki..

Ye saazishen hawaan ko!

Lahu lohan ho gayi...

Zameen ye devtaon ki!

Na shankh ki sdaen hain, na ab sada azan ki

Nazar meri zameen ko, lagi hai asmaa ki!

Hain dar badar ye log kyun..

Jalen hain kyun makaan!

Ye kisne aag daal di..

Hai narm narm ghaas par!

Likha hua hai zindagi, yahan har ek lash par....

Ye takht ki ladai hai, ye kursiyun ki jang hai..

Yeh begunah khoon bhi, siyasaton ka rang hai!

Lakeer khench di gayi, dilon k darmiyan!!

- Mission Kashmir