An open letter to Virendra Sehwag

Dear Veeru (Virendra Sehwag), a few days ago as I came back from my work and was checking pictures of my younger brother, a known cricketer of south Kashmir who is currently behind the bars, I came through a news on the different news portals that “Sehwag Hails Security Forces for Eliminating over 200 Terrorists This Year, Congratulates Them On A ‘Double Century’.”

Let me tell you that, I was not befuddled or puzzled about your tweet because people like you don’t understand and are simply dehumanized to the core. Do you believe that killing of armed persons, unarmed protesters and making people blind every year will bring peace in the region? Let me remind you that not from the commencement of the Kashmir conflict but from the 2008 agitation, more than 300 youth got killed by the forces. More than 2000 people got their vision impaired.

I hope you are well aware about the recent visit of M S Dhoni, I will suggest you to ask him and tell him what kind of welcome he got. Oh, wait I will tell you, when he visited a part of Kashmir where he was a chief guest, he was welcomed with the slogans of Aazadi (freedom) and Boom Boom Shahid Khan Afridi and the following day when he visited another part of Kashmir he again was welcomed with the slogans of resistance and Zakir Musa (one of the top rebel commander of Kashmir resistance). The reason for getting such a welcome has a lot to do with your tweets.

And if people like you are in the world’s largest democratic country, how can we bear this type of democracy and the people like you.

Coming to 2016, when approximately 90 Kashmiris, including 12 year old kids were shot dead and hundreds were blinded. You (Sehwag) tweeted from your official Twitter called for a genocide of Kashmiris and praised the gross human rights abuses by Indian Armed Forces stationed in Kashmir. Whereas at the same time Afridi tweeted from his official account that he is in favour of peace and against war. I hope I cleared the first point why Dhoni was welcomed with the chants of Boom Boom Afridi.

Presently my parents are running from pillar to the post in order to get my younger brother back. However every time they go to police station and after a wait of 6 to 10 hours in a day they return empty handed.

Presently my parents are running from pillar to the post in order to get my younger brother back. However every time they go to police station and after a wait of 6 to 10 hours in a day they return empty handed. My sister makes different dishes thinking the brother will return. But I have conveyed to her that this is Sehwag’s Hindustan, so anything can be done.

Coming back to first point, as I said, my brother Ruban, a well-known all-rounder in south Kashmir district of Shopian is in prison since last several days without any charges. It is because of his batting skills his friends call him “Kohli”. And it is because of his bowling skills we love to call him “Akhtar” but believe me he gets more happy when someone calls him “Afridi”. I don’t know why I am worried about his future as at this younger age he has witnessed much state tyranny- may be the torture he has gone through three times since 2010 that too without any FIR. Or maybe he has seen your tweets. May be, may not be.

So please, next time, you tweet about my people make sure you have done a good research, Wish to meet you one day with my brother if he comes back alive in order to tell you what it take to be a Kashmiri, what the resistance is.

May the Kashmir be resolved. May some sanity, logic and rationale prevail on those drunk on power and might and my brother returns home from prison alive.

WITH REGARDS

A Proud Brother,

A Proud Kashmiri

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