SRINAGAR: Snow in K
ashmir has this year been used by citizens as another medium to spread anti India and pro-freedom slogans, attesting to the power of the post-Burhan Wani uprising.
The K
ashmiri winters usually cause
d the freedom movement to go into hibernation. However, as the snowflakes began to
fall, people wrote anti-India and pro-freedom slogan
s on the accumulated snow and later poste
d the pictures on social media.
Westminster University Politics and International Relations Department Head Professor Dibyesh Anand, who was on a visit to K
ashmir, posted a picture on social media showing the slogan, “Free/ Free/Free Tibet/K
ashmir/”, inscribed on the snow in two lines. A youth posted a photo of himself with a snowman whose head was covered in kifaya an
d the message &lsquo
;Don’t Pellet Me’ written on its body. In another photo, he posed with a snowman whose neck was draped in kifaya with ‘Free K
ashmir’ written on the body an
d the Pakistani flag placed on the snowman’s right shoulder.
“It was not a premeditated exercise. The idea came to mind when the snowfall began. The post may not bring Azadi but it gives me satisfaction,” sai
d the youth.
Another post ha
d the flag of Azad Jammu and K
ashmir (AJK) pasted on the snowman. The AJK flag, a key symbol of identity for K
ashmiris and associated with the K
ashmiri political struggle, was adopted in 1975 by AJK founding President Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan.
After the daylong snowfall on Friday, many K
ashmiri youth had made albums on social media, naming them as Azadi Sheen (Freedom snow). A post that went viral had Azadi written on the frosted windshield of a car.
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