My friend recounted this recent incident to me. She said “ the Indian Paramilitary forces barged in her cousin's house, and the men of the house ran away, in fear of being caught and tortured. There was no one in the house who could have fought the enemy army. This was what everyone thought. But her cousin's 80 year old grandmother stood up and thrashed the infiltrators who had barged in her house. She, with her wobbly walk and the nerve of steels, hit them while they watched in astonishment. Then they hit her back . They roughed her up. And she was hospitalized but her strength didn't . She told everyone she would hit them again if they came by and joked about it and chuckled.
The kind of strength you see in the men , the titans are famous for? That was her strength that time.
Women of Kashmir with all your strength, your valor, your pride, your magnificence , your patience , your resilience , you are the definition of what woman is, in sum and total. You battered the mountains and crushed the rocks , with your blood and with granite of your courage you built the entire city. Then whose soil is this? Whose homeland is it?