The Freedom of Kashmir
I am sure most of you must have seen this already, still, couldn’t contain myself from sharing it here.
I was thrilled beyond words when I saw this.
Romance, Pathos, Patriotism, War – the multi colored canvas of this man’s life — Kashmir Singh, what a prophetic name! — isn’t it full of emotions?
This story, literally, is the real life replica of all those awesome (and awful) movies that the makers, from JP Dutta to Yash Chopra, have doled out, by and large, in the name of epic cinema.
Kashmir Singh, an Indian jawan, was arrested in Pakistan in 1972 on charges of spying and sentenced to death by an Army court. He is being released after spending 35 years in Central Jail, Lahore.
1972! 35 years!! Most of the PFCians haven’t even been conceived by then, so to speak, when Kashmir Singh was damned to waste a life time languishing in incarceration.
The former policeman from Hoshiarpur, in Punjab, became a trader in electronic goods and was arrested on a business trip to Rawalpindi. He was convicted and sentenced to death by a military court in Lahore, although his execution was stayed in the late 1970s and the case languished.
That, at a macro level, is the outsider’s emphatic view or emotional side of it.
And then, at a grassroots level, there is the poignant personal side to this whole ordeal.
Having waited 35 years, Paramjit Kaur is glad to be reuniting with her husband Kashmir Singh, who spent half his life in Pakistani jails, and also anxious about know how to break the news about his mother’s death two months ago.
What words would best describe the whole spectrum of emotions that this man, and his family, will go through, when they finally meet?
His family has been camping at this joint border check-post between India and Pakistan for the last three days, eagerly awaiting his return.
Although they are not sure how they will react to their highly charged and emotional re-union with him after 35 years, members of Singh’s family have been looking forward to seeing him walk back through the iron gates on the Radcliffe line here.
On this felicitous occasion, on behalf of PFC, I would like to wish Kashmir Singh and his family all the very best for their future, together!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Hats off to this Pakistanis Human Rights organization which played a major role in Kashmir’s release
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http://www.ansarburney.org/persons_released.html
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That’s a beautiful story indeed..Chopra should give him a part of the proceeds of his crappy film Veer Zaara, seeing as how he made millions off it, and here is a real life example of that story….It would surely help him live the rest of his days in peace….Alas, that is but a pipe dream!
saw the story on tv also…quite desrving post wb and even reading the story makes you go numb but then there are million others…all missing in action!!
nice gimmick by the porkis
@Filmibhai,
how its harming you if Kashmir Singh is released?
Even if its a gimmick, he got his release. Thats enough for the moment to feel good.
When last time you thought something positive about anything;)
Dont mind please. You make mysterious statements.:)
i wish for crores of more such gimmicks.
@RK haha maybe im cynical ! ok on afterthought .. its good ;)
but i still dislike gandhi (except for his upliftment of the oppressed)
some good news
but wait a min, this guy is called Kashmir? No wonder they kept him in jail for so long!
but really, what does ‘kashmir’ mean?
@RK
LOL!
@filmibhai
err what has Gandhi got to do with this? or do you just keep saying that you dislike him once in a while, reassuring yourself lest you fall into the dark side of Gandhism?
Shatrughan, Shailesh, T-Rex // Thanks for logging in.
Phoenixnu // Thanks mate!
RK // Thanks brother!
Ashwin // Amen! and Spot on!
filmibhai // You’re incorrigible. BTW, what’s Gandhi has to do with this?
Neeraja // LOL! Oh and, Kashmir is originally Kaasmeeram (Sanskrit) and it means a lot of things. One meaning, which’s still in use in Malayalam (a descendant of Sanskrit), is Saffron (the spice).
@neeraja
that gandhi thing is what i wrote in RKs other thread .. so i thought maybe he was referring to that as well .. anyways peace !
‘Kashmir is originally Kaasmeeram (Sanskrit) and it means a lot of things’
i think i read somwewhere its original name was something like Kashyapnagar (after its ancient king kashyap)
wb and filmibhai, thanks for the info.
@filmibhai
oh ok just saw the comments on that thread.
Peace.