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-----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of muruganandan.k Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 12:52 PM To: accessindia <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Subject: [AI] Painting exposes the blinding of people in Kashmir by the Indian State I could see several nationalist voices against my previous postings regarding this issue. Their contentions vividly mentioned that all the Kashmiri people are "anti-nationals", and that it is only proper that they are mercilessly blinded. If they think India can retain Kashmir only after blinding all the Kashmiri youth and at the cost of human suffering,, I don't understand what kind of nation they propagate for. No nation State can retain a region or rule its people using arms and ammunition. This issue ought to be understood beyond the short-sighted nationalist uproars which are merely political in purpose and fanatic in nature. But I am certain that anyone with a rational mind and human heart will not approve such a systematic blinding, be it by any country or agency or organization I shall not respond to any replies to this post further. news from today's The Hindu: A ‘Kashmir Ki Kali’ poster wakes world to pellet blind spot Sharmila Tagore and Shammi Kapoor’s musical shikara romance mesmerized audiences in Kashmir Ki Kali five decades ago. Today, the valley is troubled and cartoonist Mir Suhail decided to visualise the darkness of eyes blinded by pellet guns through the iconic poster of the film featuring the two stars. Thus, Sharmila Tagore gazes down, one eye hit by pellets, in the recreated poster. It is one more artistic protest to focus the world’s attention on the effect of small pellets fired by security forces from crowd-control guns that is leaving people blind. The number of young pellet victims with eyes badly affected has shot up to more than 300. Several artists in Kashmir are protesting, using creative expression to try and end the civilian deaths and crippling injuries in the demonstrations that have followed the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8. “My attempt to recreate the poster, where Sharmila Tagore is hit in one eye by pellets, and Shammi Kapoor has an expression of disgust, is to highlight the pain inflicted on this kali (girl). There is no romance left about the place or the people,” Mr. Suhail told The Hindu . Another acclaimed artist, Masood Hussain, has come up with a series of grey scale posters of boys with shrunken, shikara -shaped pupils, again drawing attention to destroyed eyes. “It pains to see kids being blinded by pellets. All that an artist can do is stroke the canvas with that pain,” says Mr. Hussain, who has documented the daily life of ordinary Kashmiris for two decades now. Pellet gun injuries are fast growing in Kashmir: 50 more protesters were hit in their eyes just on Friday. Most of those affected are in the age group of 15 to 25. Asif Amin Tibet Baqual, founder and chief creative officer of BlackSheep.Works, a communication agency, sparked off a Twitter storm when his anti-pellet campaign generated 20 million impressions on the platform. Mr. Baqual produced three posters in Braille with messages like: ‘Offensive state apparatus in Kashmir sees to it that dissent doesn’t see the light of day’. -- “THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATRED, BUT INDIFFERENCE” MURUGANANDAN.K Ph.D Scholar, Department of English, Pondicherry University, puducherry-14 mobile:+919787871008. 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