Remembering the Kargil War.....

Irrespective of the countries, politics keeps dancing on both sides of their borders. The love, culture and feelings of those people of that politics are covered.

No matter how helpless this scent of love and emotion is, it rises above the folds of borders and the dance of politics and somehow reaches the people of one country to another.

No matter how loud the noise of political slogans is, it cannot suppress this feeling, but the forces bound by the orders of the seat of power certainly point guns and guns at each other.

Something similar happened during the Kargil war 25 years ago. I am an eye witness of that war. I had to spend 40 days of my journalistic life near the shadow of the Bofors guns and in the shadow of the Tiger Hill hills. I used to see my soldiers on the battlefield fighting to conquer their front and defeat the 'enemy'. By the next morning, how many of them would return to the threshold of their homes, locked in coffins.

It is heartbreaking to see the lid of that coffin open for the elderly parents, the widowed wife and the orphaned innocent children. Pakistan had refused to take the dead bodies of many of its soldiers. What must have gone through the hearts of the heirs of such war martyrs.

Today, while commemorating the Kargil war, the rulers and other leaders in both India and Pakistan will not get tired of telling stories of the bravery of their respective soldiers and at the same time they will surely pat themselves on the back for the mythical 'success' of this war. They never think about the purpose of this war and what achievements any country has achieved in it.

The war between Russia and Ukraine that has been going on for a long time or the war between Israel and Hamas that started in the last months is finally being fought for what purpose. When these wars are over, will anyone be able to tell what a country will gain at the cost of dead bodies of soldiers as well as innocent children to the elderly.

It is often seen that behind the wars between different countries in the past, the so-called hankering, the dirty game of politics or the blind trade of weapons due to hunger for money plays a big role.

Leaders who talk about peace in the morning and evening also talk more loudly in public forums about war or things like crushing and belittling each other's country. Can any force stop this raging war storm that is rising towards the destruction of humanity and is getting louder day by day. The cry of humanity is that we do not want war, we want peace, we want bread, we want love.......Amen

Joginder Sandhu