Rathore launches Ashish Kaul s Refugee Camp Book presents solutions for Kashmir imbroglio

 

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting eventually culminated in the events in 1988-89 Sports and Youth Affairs, Col Rajyavardhan Rat ore, launched the book Refugee Camp written by Shri Ashish Kaul, in New Delhi on October 11 last. The volume portraits Kashmir's history of a thousand years, its problems, potential solutions and the expected role of youth.

Shri Rathore said "Happy to have launched Refugee Camp, a gripping narrative that focuses on the need of youth to be involved in addressing the problem of Kashmir. Revolving around the central character of Abhimanyu, I hope this novel awakens the Abhimanyu inside all of us."

Refugee Camp was born out of a six-year-old girl's question to the author. The query was "Kashmir is so beautiful, why can't we live there? I did not have answer then. My book Refugee Camp is my answer to every child of India, who was born in early 80s or after the exodus. These young Kashmiri Pandits are not familiar how Kashmiri Pandits were. terrorised to leave Kashmir amongst the slogans of Ralive Chilufya Galive' and "Asi gaschi aasun Pakistan, Batav roost, Batinyav saan." The message of Refugee Camp is clear-Yes we can and we will one day go back and live in the land that belongs to every Kashmir.``

The book has a hair-raising account of those 48 hours that changed the face of humanity and the worst atrocities like mob lynching were committed on ethnic Kashmiri Pandits. It captures authentic historical and geopolitical narrative of over a thousand years that The Refugee Camp is a tribute to Abhimanyu from Mahabharata in all of us, someone who stood against tyranny, evil and demons against grave and imminent dangers Fear consumes us as much as hatred does and so, says the author, to leave our fears and hatred aside and take a step towards finding hope, finding peace and building a country that we truly want for ourselves.

"Thousands of years ago the battle of Mahabharat had Chakravyuh as a symbol of terror and Abhimanyu decided to break it at the cost of his life. The same situation exists in Kashmir today. Terror is that chakravyuh but no Abhimanyu is coming. forward to break it. The volume deals with the same predicament. Ultimately, people of Kashmir have to unleash the Abhimanyu who resides within them in order to destroy terror.

Cover of the book drawn by Sudha Verma, is a message for all humanity that seeks peace, humanity, dignity, justice and religion to thrive Chief of the Army Staff General J. J. Singh (retd) has written the foreword for the book Legendary Pakistani singer Hassan Jahangir, says. Refugee Camp is a book for people of India and Pakistan. I wish every Indian and Pakistani reads Refugee Camp to realise that both countries need peace and humanity.

Refugee Camp is the story of Abhay Pratap. an iconic righteous journalist and owner of The Truth, published from the valley. Abhay Pratap believes in secularism and brotherhood among diverse faiths. His stand against terrorism has earned him wrath of the militants but that has not deterred the brave Abhay His son Abhimanyu is a happy-go-lucky young man of 20, who believes in the virtues of his father Abhimanyu has lived a protected life in a surreal world created by his father's ideology Their lives take a dramatic turn overnight when they are forced to flee, leaving everything behind to start their changed lives under the torn tents of a makeshift refugee camp Abhimanyu comes of age as his values are put to test in the real world full of vivid flavours of friendship, love and everything in between. The story takes yet another ugly turn when Abhimanyu gets into a tangle with the local police inspector and ends up killing two cops. What follows is a chum that transforms a young boy into a revered leader who leads a mass suicide mission with 5,000 people. What starts as a struggle of refugees, uprooted from their land, transforms into a narrative of struggle for existence, harsh realities of life and culminates into a crescendo across political circles in India and Pakistan. The terror groups get into action to stop these people from entering into the valley as they know if these people return, their reign of terror will end. They issue threats to Abhimanyu and the people that they will be killed if they try to return - Abhimanyu responds "If coming home means death, so be it-that he is indeed coming to die.

The book is available at leading online portals like Amazon, Flipkart and Markmybook. This is the first book of Ashish Kaul Ashish, a known name in the world of media His aim, to reach out to the common man, to share this tale from Kashmir in a simple language, was the motivation to write the story in Hindi instead of English.

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Courtesy:-  Shefali Chaturvedi   and Koshur Samachar 2018, December