ASHRAF'S ADVENTURES

Mr. Ashraf is writing a travelogue which is being published in a local daily in installments. There must be many enjoying 'Ashraf's adventures' as he titles this travelogue.
Every installment highlights in a box and in bold letters, 'DURING MY TENURE IN STATE TOURISM I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF TRAVELING TO AMERICA, EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST, SOME OF THE JOURNEYS WERE QUITE ADVENTUROUS AND EXCITING'
I read this travelogue as an obituary of my motherland.This man traveled the globe at the cost of the State. Enjoyed air travel, five star hotels, chauffeur driven Merc's and what did the state tourism get in return? This story is not of one Ashraf. We have seen thousands of them. Politicians bureaucrat's and power brokers. Many of them have reportedly properties worth billions across the globe.
This is the real story of Kashmir and its miseries,we have been feeding parasites who have been sucking our blood. We don't have even a walkable foot path around boulevard. Our grand children may have to go to Chandigarh to see a lake.
If i were somebody i would use this travelogue as charge sheet against Mr Ashraf and many others.