This blog is dedicated to HardWork and EOD at Workplace :)

Disclaimer: These are strictly my views and my nightmarish outlook towards work and office.
No offence to anyone. This is completely a figment of imagination, However if you find it close to your experience which I am pretty sure you will, just reagrd me as an oracle. :D

It was 5:30 sharp and I was packing my bags to flee the Dark arena of office, just then somebody called my name from back. "You shouldn’t call anyone from back. That is inauspicious" I yelled as i turned back. I was loaded with stuff...helmet, bag, purse, and headscarf. And there I was facing my PM. "Sorry" he said smiling, “I ll take care not to repeat this", he continued. And then asked me to replace all my stuff at my desk and come to his cubicle. I too shocked to react, did as he said. Moving towards his cubicle I
Prayed to all the gods I remembered and chanted all the invocations I remembered. Inside his cubicle (appeared like an execution room to me), he asked me to take a seat(execution chair). I sat there with a pale face and shivering hands, the place was full of sickening smell of work. I felt drowsy and my PM turned into YamRaj before me, laughing hysterically. 'This is to be completed by today EOD.' he finished. 'Okay', I said and left with a forced smile. He had actually given me the work of updating IPM+ at 5:30.
I returned to my desk, exhausted. 'What happened?', people enquired. I told them and then asked for the inputs. '@#!%& !! EOD is over; it is already 5:45. Tell him you will do it tomorrow and go.’ One suggested with a row of abuses. "No yaar, it will just take 3-4 hours. You should do it" said another.
They were all giving their inputs just then an idea struck me. What if I can leave these walls unnoticed. I picked up my stuff and hurried to the door. 'Hey, you are going to the food court? Can I Join you?’ there he was again. 'Yes! Yes, of course' I said and I went with him to the food court adding an hour to my departure.
As we sat in the foodcourt, my PM got nostalgic about his 'GOOD' old days at office. "We used to work day and night here, once I remember I did not go home for 4 months continuously. I used to sleep for 7 hours in dorm and then back to work everyday.” he said enthusiastically and then went on with horrifying stories of 'HARDWORK', giving me Goosebumps. "Ok then! I leave for home from here, you can go and finish of your work in 'hardly' anytime and then leave. And yes! Drop me a mail
When you leave. Bye", he said and departed without giving me a chance to say anything. I came back to my desk and began with work. Nobody was around; their EOD has been reached, but mine still pending. I started media player and the song being played was one of pink floyd's classic songs 'Coming back to life'.
'Where were you when I was burned and broken?
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun'
I felt as if pink floyd was talking to god in my favor, I also wanted the same answer, where was he, when I was burnt and broken by work? Where was he when i was hanging on my PM's words to decide my EOD? Everything was fruitless, god didn’t answer me. PM was gone, and I had work. Coping with reality I began with work. Alone in the office, I was updating superslow IPM+ and just then housekeeping switched off the lights. It was their EOD, perhaps. I completed the work at 10 but I had no convenience to back so I waited for another hour, till the shuttle timings had been reached. The dark corridors of this war land were covered in my blood and i felt myself a creepy creature in half sense.
I dragged myself to the shuttle and went home with a nice pune darshan of 45 minutes. This was my EOD at 11:40 PM.

For past two weeks i have been reading a travel book by Pankaj Mishra named "Temptations of the west". In this book he has stated and analyzed several of south Asia's grave problems with a view of a merciless critic.
One of the issues discussed is Kashmir, my heart raced as i went through the pages and devoured the legacy. Kashmir's problem it seems is not insurgency but insurgency is a result of several of kashmir's problems. Kashmir was ruled by numerous foreign rulers moguls, afghans, Sikhs and Hindu kings. The worst one pointed out by Mishra is the rule of 4% Hindu minority over 96% Muslims under the reign of Maharajas. Maharaja Gulab Singh was just a chieftain who help British to ousted Sikh rule in the valley and then proceeded to buy the valley for just Rs7.2 million in 1846 after signing 'Treaty of Amritsar' accepting British supremacy on Jammu and Kashmir. Since then Kashmir has only faced brutality and humiliation at the hands of maharajas, Indian govt and Pakistan govt, all of them using the valley and its population to their interest. On the basis of my reading i further discuss about the accession of valley to India and its administration under Indian rule.
In 1946, the Maharaja was faced with a choice between India and Pakistan which remained undecided until Pak supported jihadis tried to seize power in oct 1947. Maharaja fled Srinagar and pleaded Indian help from Jammu, which came in late oct 1947 after Kashmir’s accession to India. Pakistani troops were forced out and ceasefire was declared on 1st Jan 1949 on UN intervention. The then PM Nehru called for plebiscite which he hoped to win with the most popular leader of the valley, Sheikh Abdullah by his side. Abdullah wary of Pak's intentions and to protect Kashmiri Muslims from the wrath of Pakistan’s Muslim elite called for Kashmir’s support to Secular India.
Abdullah guaranteed various reforms and concessions for the valley and brought about the historical land reforms; however he faced retaliation from Hindu majority Jammu and was regarded as a leader of 53% Muslims of the state. He then proceeded to demand autonomous rights of Kashmir and slowly turned to an autocratic ruler. Nehru scared of brimming trouble forced Abdullah in jail for 11 years. The democracy in Kashmir was highly suppressed and elections often rigged. The valley was once again left isolated from modern education and there were hardly any jobs for Kashmiri Muslims.
The condition worsened when Indira Gandhi dismissed the democratically elected government of National conference and the rule passed into the hands of the then governor Jagmohan who brutally suppressed the early uprising against Indian administration. Narrow-minded but strong-willed, he is accused alternatively of saving Kashmir and worsening the situation beyond repair. He endorsed migration of pandits but at the same time moved the durbar from Jammu to Kashmir.
The present state of the valley is portrayed by both the nations as a war ground, but no one is ready to take the blame. Kashmir people don’t want to be Indians or Pakistanis, their demand is of freedom. After Pakistani ISI was done with Afghanistan, it concentrated its efforts on Kashmir. With hoards of arms, ammunitions and distorted Quran madarsas, ISI was ready to play yet another Jihad, this time the target being Indian Kashmir and its people. By people I mean Hindu and Muslim alike. Kashmiri
Muslims so disillusioned with India were a proper jihadi material; their cry of Azad Kashmir unheard by the world was registered with pak for exploitation. Young men of the valley; educated but poor and unemployed starting crossing the border to Pak military camps for training in arms and ammunitions, these young men often came back to execute operations of terror and recruit more people. These young men with Quran in their heart and Azad Kashmir on their mind; were determined to drive out all the Hindus holding them responsible for the subjugation of their homeland. This all along suppressed majority forced three lakh Hindus out of the valley to be scattered all over the world.
We know this part of the story very well but do we know how many peaceful Muslims were abducted by Indian army and killed after labeling them terrorists?
In chhitisinghpura where 36 Sikhs were massacred in March 2000, but what followed was even more grotesque. India blamed Pakistan for the shootout while US press staged the suspicions of Indian hand behind this. Clinton was scheduled to visit Pakistan after his visit to India and India wanted attention, this is the argument of the world press. Reason being that till date India has not been able to bring forth the culprits. So was it Indian army? Following the massacre 5 Kashmiri Muslims were abducted by SOG (special operations group, a Sikh major authority) and were burnt alive claiming to have treated the culprits right. However just a couple of days later these bodies were exhumed on court orders after a plea was registered with the court by the kinsmen of these 5 people. The bodies with limbs missing were identified by their relatives and none of them was a terrorist, they were the bread earners of their families.
This is just one story I have quoted but read several on net. There are a lot of cases pending against various Indian authorities ranging form rape to murder.
I only know what I read and nothing beyond that. I know some Kashmiri Hindus and I grieve for their loss of kins and homeland but still want to plead the case of Muslims who are the victims as well. Kashmiris are not the victims of religious hatred they are the victims of step motherly treatment meted out to them by India and a wicked lover that Pakistan turned out to be. Today lakhs of Kashmiris disillusioned and displaced are scattered around the globe breed a communal hatred, I hope with time they will understand and will learn to live together once again. All Kashmir needs is Freedom.