Who's more Damaging? A cynic or A Collaborator?
With a few more espresso bars inaugurated this week, I wonder who these traitors are, spoiling every nook and corner of our sinless land! After all what does a Kashmiri know about a bistro or a grill? And, what pleasure can an average Kashmiri draw from reading a book on an island while he takes slow sips from his coffee mug? We aren’t that hip. We aren’t that classy. Moreover, a start- up requires courage and insight. We don’t have any, do we? So, who’s financing all these collaborators …oops! Entrepreneurs, I mean? I am sorry all you young boys and girls, I don’t see any of you pursuing your passion or living your dream. These are such clichéd arguments. I smell rat. No, I don’t. Asides’ being torn to shreds in a decades long undeclared war between the twin nations of Nehru and Jinnah, our beloved land has mainly fallen prey to our everlasting sense of cynicism. Distrust and pessimism is an ailment that carves out flesh from the most resolute. Since ages, we have mas...