Fond Memories
By B.P. Singh
Via email

I have just read Dr Amjad Hussain's - "Arafat: Passage of an Icon" - and was deeply moved by his quote of Daud Kamal " Anchor your dreams....."
Daud and I were from the same city - Abbottabad. His father was a well-known lawyer and a junior contemporary of my uncle Rai Sahib Parmanand, Bar-at-Law. Our families were very good friends. We went to the same school - Burn Hall Cambridge School in Srinagar, Kashmir, and used to travel in the same bus after each holiday break - the bus took us through Mansehra, Garhi, Mazzafarabad, Domel and then on to Srinagar via Baramula.
In 1947 my family - who spent the summers either in Dungagali or Kashmir - came to Srinagar to spend some time there. We never got back.
Daud and his younger brother Yusuf left Srinagar in early October as did most other students from the Frontier and Punjab. I never saw him again.
The recent tragedy in this region has caused deep anguish to all of us who are from that part of the World. It is a pity that circumstances do not permit us to be there - helping out in this hour of need -. I often wonder how Daud would have responded to this tragedy and what inspirational verses he would have written.
I remember him as a very private person, warm hearted, generous, noble and sensitive to the extreme.
I miss him and I miss the land of my ancestors!

 

 

 

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