'Why is it so easy to curtail our freedom of expression?': Zaira Wasim pens a long note on plight of Kashmiris
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DNA Web Team
| Updated: Feb 04, 2020, 05:42 PM IST
Former actor Zaira Wasim took to her Instagram page and penned a long post about how 'Kashmir continues to suffer'.
The Sky is Pink actor Zaira Wasim on Monday took to her Instagram page and penned a long note highlighting the plight of Kashmiris. The former actor, who rarely posts on social media wrote about how her home state and its residents are suffering.
Posting a photo of a white flower, Zaira poured her heart out about Kashmiris, questioning why their voices are always silenced.
She started by stating, "Kashmir continues to suffer and see-saw between hope and frustration। There’s a false and uneasy semblance of calmness in place of escalating despair and sorrow। Kashmiris continue to exist and suffer in a world where it is so easy to place restrictions on our liberty. Why do we have to live in a world where our lives and wills are controlled, dictated and bent? Why is it so easy to have our voices silenced? Why is it so easy to curtail our freedom of expression? Why aren’t we ever allowed to voice our opinions, let alone our disprovals, to decisions that are made contrary to our wishes? Why is it that instead of trying to see the cause of our view, our view is just condemned ruthfully? What is so easy to curb our voices so severely? Why can we not live simple lives without always having to wrestle and remind the world of our existence? Why is that life of a Kashmiri is just about experiencing a lifetime of crisis, blockade and disturbance so abundantly that it has taken away the recognition of normalcy and harmony from the hearts and minds?"
The Dangal actor further continued about no outcome for the frustrations of Kashmiris. "Hundreds of questions like these-unanswered; leaving us bewildered and frustrated, but our frustrations find no outlet. The authority doesn’t make the slightest effort to put a stop to our doubts and speculations but stubbornly tend to go their own way to confine our existence mired in a confused, conflicted and a paralysed world," she added.
"But I ask the world, what has altered your acceptance of the misery and oppression we’re being subjected to? Do not believe the unfair representation of the facts and details or the rosy hue that the media has cast on the reality of the situation. Ask questions, re-examine the biased assumptions. Ask questions. For our voices have been silenced- and for how long....none of us really know!", concluded Zaira.
Zaira's last film was The Sky is Pink in which she played the onscreen daughter of Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Farhan Akhtar.
