A
week without cell phone
In the present scenario
when people often are busy on their cell phones connected with their family and
friends updating them every time, it is very hard if you lost your cell phone
and the things become much worse when it is in Kashmir.
In the valley of Kashmir
the things are much more complicated on one side almost every one is having not
only one, two connections but some times more then that. Besides business class
the students of even high school too are having high ended gadgets. On the
other side it is very hard to get a sim card in Kashmir. Once a person gets a sim card he keeps it
very protected so that he could not lost it. Same was the case with me,
although I had only one sim which was enough for me to be in connection with my
friends and family.
In the evening of the
18th January 2012, when I was approaching towards the market at Panthachowk.
In between my house and market I lost my cell phone some where, as I put my
hands in my pocket to call my friend but I could not found it. Immediately I told
my friend please call my phone I have lost that. When he called on my number
the reply was “The Number You Are Trying To Reach Is Currently Switched Off”.
After listening reply I understood that, someone has picked my phone, I was not
worried about the phone but about sim. Now with broken hope I tried to search
it along the way back to home but I could no t found that.
On the next day, early
in the morning I reached to the airtel outlet for duplicate sim. He gave some
instructions for getting duplicate sim. He told me that you need to submit FIR,
I. D. proof, Residence proof and a photograph. It was easy to manage I.D proof,
Residence proof and photograph but for FIR I rushed to the police station
panthachowk.
In the police station
panthachowk I was told that in orde to get FIR you need to submit affidavit,
I.D proof, Residence proof and a simple application. Now once again it was easy
to give the Photostat of I.D, Residence proof and to write an application, but
for affidavit I had to go to the lower court lal-chowk.
On the next day early
in the morning I rushed to Lal-chowk to make an affidavit, for which I paid
40Rs. to the typist for affidavit.
Now with the affidavit along
with I.D proof, Residence proof, and application, I got FIR for the lost of sim, with fir along with all required documents in
reached to the outlet and got the duplicate sim for Rs. 50. Then after two days my sim was activated. It
took me one week to go through all the procedures to get duplicate sim, which
in case of other states of India is the work of minutes.
In the whole week I was
out of touch with my friends, I could not know what was going on in University
and other places.
Besides all this I
enjoyed the week so much because all time was mine alone, no one disturbed me at
any moment. I was bit a free no one traced me throughout the whole week.
Ahmad
Mukhtiyar
Perusing M. A
Convergent Journalism
Centre
University of Kashmir
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