“Helpless, sleepless, numb and harassed.” Srinagar’s Tabinda Qadri, who works in a New Delhi software firm, shared her feelings with Brut India about the abrogation of Article 370.
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00:00but Kashmir I personally I am crying since four days I'm helpless I am I am
00:07helpless just understand this point I am asking one question to the Indian
00:11government only one question I am ready to accept anything and anything and
00:15everything was this a way
00:30I work in Delhi I work in the corporate office you are far from home you're not
00:45speaking to your parents when you know there's a war like situation there are
00:49thousands and thousands of troops over there what are they their cause we are
00:54feeling helpless we are not sleeping since days we are we have no
00:58communication channel we don't know if our parents are find it people are like
01:04they are harassing us they are saying we will buy land we will do this we will do
01:12that it's it's harassing we will marry Kashmiri we will marry Kashmiri girls
01:16yeah we are we are seeing these screenshots people are making fun of
01:23370 article that is not just a land maybe you are treating is either land
01:28it's not our home our family is there we have our people there I'm not able to
01:34speak I'm not I don't know I am they have left us like in the condition of
01:41mental harassment this is human genocide people I know they are not they are not
01:45using arms they are not using fire they are not using bullets there but yeah
01:50people are dying there you might not know that but people are dying there I
01:54am helpless I am I am helpless just understand this point I don't know words
01:59have meaning words are supposed to be carrier very rude meaning when you say I
02:03love you to someone love is a very can you can you just can you express what is
02:08love when people tell you what is love so I don't know if you will understand
02:11what is helplessness what is restlessness I am feeling these two I
02:16am getting numb I don't have any idea about my family also I know by the grace
02:21of Allah they are fine over there see what what what is the situation there
02:25a girl can have a pandora so la setra at a CRPF valet I know they are not
02:31protesting I know but I also know that I don't know because I have been in
02:37Kashmir maybe curfew may be when I didn't have food
02:40because of the curfew we have spent more than six months in
02:46house arrest technically and this kind of situation this was article 370 it was
02:51a very big deal for the whole world this was not meant to be done like this and I
02:55don't know if my parents are eating having food there are people who are
02:58having asthma attacks there are people who are having heart attacks there are
03:02people who have arthritis they cannot carry one or two days without the
03:07therapy session there are people who are who are who have cancer and there are
03:12parents who are in Hajj there are students who are outside Kashmir I am
03:16asking one question to the Indian government only one question I am ready
03:19to accept anything and anything and everything was this a way justify me
03:25justify this thing to me was this a way is this right now I think this is not
03:31about Kashmir this is about India this is about anything this is about
03:35everything every state every union territory if this happened to us this
03:39can be happened to you Kashmir is it's not a home it's a feeling it's although
03:44I am very much concerned about my family because Jahan hai toh Jahan hai but
03:49Kashmir I personally I am crying since four days
03:54merko apni maa baap ki shakal saamne nahi aa rahi hai merko apni zameen ki shakal saamne aa rahi hai
04:00I I can I can just visualize Dal lake I can just visualize future how it
04:06will be and all I can see is a darkness and if Indian government is thinking
04:12this was for the good this was for the empowerment of the Kashmiri people this
04:16is this is good for Kashmir you know they are saying industry jobs so we I
04:21can accept it in some way all right but if the beginning is this I wonder what
04:28will be the end