Exploring My Inner World

"I am old sorrow and past predicament. Now, without identity in a streetnameless to me,I am a stranger: I am longings,I am fears.The past is years dissolving into memory.The past is emigration, flight;the present: yearning and homesickness dissolving into years.I am the wandering childlonging to belong to his lostchildhood and not be outside the present,always withdrawn, apart.I am the homeless child who grew up in displacement living in homesickness and sickness of the heart."

Monday, April 16, 2007

A Must Read article for all...!

"Between Worlds"

- by RADHIKA KAUL

(Radhika is a 15 year old, Kashmiri Hindu refugee living in-exile in Delhi, India.)

"...I live between worlds, yet sometimes, I wish the barriers between these two worlds would thaw. Sometimes the proud Kashmiri Pandit in me wishes to cross the boundaries of the inner world and show its face to the outer world as well. But it's acknowledgement, not pity that a true Kashmiri Pandit wants; its empathy, not sympathy that I want. Each time a person asks me about my origins I don't want to painstakingly recall the wounds inflicted on us just to get an "Oh, really? I'm so sorry" for a reply. I'd rather want you to stand up and put a finger on my lips and say, "I know". That's all I want."

Catch the complete article on: KASHMIR HERALD

The writer can be contacted at sis_gudia@yahoo.co.in