21 Quotes by Naveed Qazi

There were very few panaceas in a war-torn society.

Politics had often changed world history and the worst collateral damage of wars were the common people.

Wars were full of valour, coming of courage, fomenting of rage and the anticipation of victory. The soldiers were content with what they had spoiled, but it had made my mind run wild in the battles I had escaped. How could I ever obliterate such memories? Such things were hard to forget.

There was a bewilderment of emotions looming around me. It had been a mixture of sadness and happiness.

Such was my agony that I had also began to see faces of myself, and my family in others, near the noise and chatter of people waiting for departures and arrivals at railway stations and airports.

The truth was simple but politicians made it complicated.

I was after truth, no matter how painful it was to swallow.

People still were emotionally connected to the vale by seeing a value in their local cultural life. They were still seriously political and tried to find their identity by inheriting memories from the experiences of each other. For Kashmiris, the struggle to remember never ended.

When there was sunshine followed by calm winds in the summer, the water of these rivers reflected many shiny ripples, and in the sunset, transformed into quiet, silver coloured watercourses.