Of late there have been a lot of terms that have become quiet common in usage. But there meanings have been determined by the conditions prevailing in the valley. This is just an endeavor to uncover such terms.
Hartal: Lawful justification for not going to workplace
Protest: Shouting so loudly that your voice strike the walls of offices of concerned authorities
Identity Cards: Lifeline of a Kashmiri
Crackdown: Where you are down and your bones cracked
Blast: Minimizing the minority of Kashmiris
Road Map: Exactly a map but without signs and symbols
26th January & 15th August: Monstrous days
Cross Firing: Easiest way of suicide
Surrender: Get a gun, give it back and own a job
Round Table Conference: Where the center is ambiguity
Dialogue: One-way communication
Peace Process: Hypothetical concept
Cease Fire: Shoot limited number of bullets
Custodial Killings: Natural death
Search Operations: Employ five laborers for a week to get things again in place
Boycott: Cannot catch it, so we are not with it
Leader: Every 10th person on the street
Government: Does it exist?
Election: In-house joke
Laws, Rules & Regulations: In books only
Tear Gas: It is always ‘in’
Stone Pelting: Oldest and most economic way
Lating Position: So that you don’t become Mr. late
Fidayeens: Omnipresent
Cordon: Surround everything else than the place you have to attack
Freedom: Whose & how
Press Conference: He got no one else to talk to / dying to speak
Media: Avenues of revenue
Human Rights Violations: Twice a day
Curfew: Prehistoric but relevant
Militant: Terrorist & Mujahid would be too extreme
Bunker: Next-door neighbor
Third Party: Optional party of Kashmiris
LOC: Out Of Control
According to Mamkol, “Do you know that terminology is not a word but a complete election – T(ERM END) + E(LECTION) + R(EGIONAL) M(EGER) + I(NC HEADS) + NO(LEFT) + LO(SP) + G(8Summit) + Y(ES TO IAEA) – next elections”.
