V.K. WATTAL
Respected Zutshi Sahab,
When
much water has flown down the TAWI & HUDSON RIVER , I may have
confused you being the President of KOA. I again repeat that
Late Sh. Kaul , asked me to write to you for financial assistance so that
assistance could be increased from Rs. 2500.00. You replied back that you are
ready to finance the programme provided you keep THE LOGO OF KOA BEHIND AT
THE TIME OF DISTRIBUTION OF CHEQUES. WE ACCEPTED THAT DEMAND. Then you sent
another letter asking us to send the list of students who have to be
financially assisted. We sent that list. The list was prepared by the
joint efforts of Migrant school Principals , camp volunteers and SOS
Villages of India.
Let
me inform you that during the identification of the students your childhood
friend and relation Sh. Bushan Parimoo was present several times. At that time
it was hotly rumoured in the Migrant camps that KP community from the
U.S. is sending bagfuls of money for the migrants.
You
have denied you don’t have any knowledge of such correspondence , SOS
Children’s villages still exist in India with hundreds of workers. I was not
corresponding with you on a personal level. Your letters will still be there if
we search the records of SOS. Despite you not sending any financial support we
continued with our programme. Several functions were held in the leading
auditorium of Jammu . Our Chief guests included State Governor and cabinet
Ministers. Your friend and relative Sh. BUSHAN PARIMOO was present at such
functions. More than 1200 students were provided this financial assistance . It
is not only you , while we approached AIKS TRUST it was the same
story.
What
SOS did for Migrant children under the leadership of Late Sh. J N KAUL , was
done in open BROAD DAY LIGHT , not in DARK. No cash changed hands.
Respected Zutshi Sahab , i am not in
blame game . My attempt is to keep the records STRAIGHT.
There will be no further
correspondence on this issue. It is a closed chapter.
Prayers for your excellent health.
Regards
V K WATTAL
(Feedback at: vkwattal1234@gmail.com)
– Reply by Ramesh Manvati to V K WATTAL
Respected Sh. Wattal Sb.,
Namaskaar,
It is after ‘decades’ I find a mail from you in my mail box. Am grateful for your kind remembrance.
I have nothing special to add on the issue of concern that has caught eye of our brethren particularly, the members of kashmir-interchange family in recent days, once again.
However, I must not shy in acknowledging, with gratitude, the appreciable contributions (including the monetary) of our overseas brethren during last three decades plus made towards welfare of their brethren scattered here in India especially in Jammu following the forced exile of 1989/’90.
In all humility, it would not be an exaggeration to mention that every Kashmiri Pandit, irrespective of his geographical locations,is a born ‘philanthropist’ by his Sanskaaras. In this regard, our illustrious elders would always emphasize, “left hand must not know, what our right hand does /or has done”.
I conclude with a popular Kashmiri saying – ”panenni hacchi chhe bhah tracchi”.
Regards,
…………………Orzuv !
RAMESH
Ps…
Please keep on educating us through your musings.
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– Reply by Bushan Parimoo to Ramesh Manvati
Dear
Vijay ji , Ayushman Bhava. you have stretch my relation with Jeevan ji ,
which is a fact and shall stay till last breath,far beyond the
limits, in the matters of KOA,he is my relation as you are by
default my friend, .In both cases we have shared many sweet and sour
events most of time together and those memories bind us steady fast.i
cherish tose because of both of you, at different times and context
neither complementary or supplementary to each other.
What
i feel i have been inadvertently brought and sucked into the vortex of sinister
design, no one except me is responsible for it and has to ear pain it gaves
me..
President
KOA Archana Kokroo as someone shared her views with has aptly
described
KOA is
not one person and cannot be judged by the responses of a few .We are an
organization which has proven its track record again and again .We consider it
a duty to come to the assistance of our community in India .These are our
families ,our parents ,brothers and sisters and to think of the help we extend
as aid or assistance is an insult to all of us .
Now
as regards Jeevan ji, his Kashmir Interchange has kept abreast
24/7 without fail the news, views, events, concerning
the KP world over in a free and fair manner presented as received, since
day one over the decades now .At unmatched feat indeed subjected to
correction.Through his efforts diaspora is knowing every aspect of it
what concerns us in its minutest details , it is however the other matter how
one takes it.I am grateful despite at times agree or disagree, he acts as
already said Sanjay of Mahabarat to
us.
It
reminds me of an often quoted example very apt and in our
genes, Hoodoou Gayoouy aakoouy Moound, last morsel was not to the taste to relish as such the whole feast was
a nasty affair.
KOA
has been doing the job as it deems fit it, it should not wash its dirty
linen in public, and express its action as an act of pity.
Jeevan
ji has been rendering his services despite the pain he carriers
which touch us to, with the Last Smile, still he carry his mission,please don’t
lose sight of,
KOA
has been let down by the organisations whom it has trusted
, as a person on the ground in jammu feel much has been left to
be desired , hastily adding it is its own business, you can lead a cow to
water ,drinking is her business.At the same time it should have been its
bonafide duty to verify and recheck , where donors money is going and utilised.
In
the end not the least, I render my ququalifed apologies to rack up the
issue though in good faith but it created much pain the way it has been
responded to and hijacked .
sincerely
Bhushan
Parimoo
Bushan Parimoo
(The writer is a Jammu based environmentalist and a regular contributor to this Website.)
(Feedback at: blparimoo@gmail.com)
