Refugees

 In this very unjust and unequal world of ours, there are many victims. The lowest of the low, however, would be the refugees. They suffer from multiple jeopardies. They are victimised due to class, race, gender (in case of refugee women), age, and the place of origin, and surely not in that order.

Being a refugee is the worst trauma, i think. It means your own motherland does not want you or finds you inconvenient, and so for the sake of self defence, you have to find a new land where you are eternally in the guest mode. 

Well, those who leave the motherland in search of greener pastures are not exactly refugees. They are mere converts to the self obsessed sect of 'money and more money', though it may be accepted that the motherland does not grant them such easy ways @' money matters' undoubtedly.

The refugees do not have such choices. The reigning ideology finds them inconvenient. Hence they have to get themselves a new home which most often could be temporary, too. The involved harassment on multiple levels is unimaginable.

The worst of the refugees, i would think, is those suffering internal displacement. Nothing can hurt the soul as much as the feel that you are a stranger, most unwanted, in your own country. We have recently heard the plight of the Kashmiri pandits in the 'media'-ated way, and the pain was indeed truly palpable 

The most touching visual of such refugee victimhood continues to be the photo of the drowned child, the Kurdish baby Ailan. The drowned body of the child at the first sight looked like a forgotten big sized doll!

Well, life does often hit you with a brick. But if you have an ounce of resilience, you can build back your dreams, and better and stronger they thus emerge.

As a refugee, however, you never belong anywhere, and then the dreams may get stolen for no fault of yours while you fight for the daily survival, a bitter battle wherein you fight in the dark where you never know exactly who the enemy is. A much needed bowing down hence to the dimming yet drumming spirit of the refugee!

Pratima@ Refugees require relatedness!                              Basics today, details fleshed out                           later in yet another blog!