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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