Words matter. These are the best Kashmir Quotes from famous people such as Zubin Mehta, Jaya Prada, Albert Brooks, Mukesh Rishi, Raza Murad, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
Those who call Bharat Mata as ‘dayan,’ who does not acknowledge Kashmir as part of India and use foul language against our PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath, stands exposed before people. Their anger is visible when I meet them and they share their views.
I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
I’ve grown up in Jammu, but have been to Kashmir earlier and have seen a different side to the Valley.
It is the Jammu and Kashmir government, which has to take an initiative of inviting actors and the film industry to the state.
I am from Jammu and Kashmir.
I was born there and I moved away in 1990 when I was seven years old. After that my family moved away from there to Delhi and Mumbai. Now, only a handful of relatives live in Kashmir and we are constantly worried about them. It pains me to see that my birth-place is not a safe place to be in anymore.
I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.
Whenever you go to Kashmir, you find people who are very gentle and soft-spoken.
Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate Afghanistan, or punish the United States for its real and imagined sins.
I was never sent to Kashmir on any secret mission. I want to make that position clear.
My Government is committed to the equitable development of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.
I was watching the devastations of the Kashmir floods, and a reporter was asking a local, who had just lost her house and her son, how she was feeling. I was stunned at the insensitivity. I did a 10-15 second satire on it and put it up on Facebook.
Vallabhbhai Patel was known as the Iron Man of India, and it is said that if he was the Prime Minister then the issue of Kashmir wouldn’t have come about. And if Savarkar was the Prime Minister, Pakistan wouldn’t have come into existence.
As far as Government of India is concerned, I want to make it clear that we don’t just want need-based ties but to build an emotional relationship with Kashmir.
The Aam Aadmi party is of the view that Kashmir is an integral part of India. Needless to say that I share this view.
Life was difficult for my family, as we didn’t know where to go after leaving Kashmir. We settled down in Mumbai, in a suburb called Mira Road.
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India’s north, both is and isn’t the India of the popular imagination.
A leader is not born out of the blue. You have to know the pulse of the people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Gujarat to Guwahati. You have to relate yourself with them, and only then does one become a leader.
But I would say my favorite Zeppelin song to play is ‘Kashmir.’ I have a great time playing that one.
I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.
For the Modi government, the calls for a ‘Naya Kashmir’ has paradoxically led them right back to old established political parties after a failed experiment at propping up an ‘alternative’ regime in the form of the Apni Party and other such flirtations.
As colleagues, Shammi ji was my first co-actor and the hero of my debut film ‘Junglee’ in 1961. I met him for the first time at Kashmir’s Shalimar Bagh where we were filming the song ‘Kashmir ki kali hoon main.’ I was an excited teenager, fresh out of London College, and had pursued films against my mother’s wishes.
I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.
My dad was in the Indian Army. He died in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994. After that, my mum and I settled in Noida. I went to Delhi Public School in Noida and then to Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi University. It was in college that I realised I wanted to be on the stage and in front of the camera.
The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
I keep surprising myself with films like ‘Mission Kashmir,’ ‘Albela,’ ‘Farz,’ and ‘Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.’ All the roles are very different.
In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.
The BJP promised that the end of Article 370 was going to be the close of business-as-usual in Kashmir. But if anything defines business-as-usual, it has been New Delhi’s attempts at political engineering in the Valley.
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
I don’t know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did ‘Yaddein’ after ‘Mission Kashmir’ in which I played a very positive character, but people don’t remember that.
In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.
The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.