Kalasha culture
feels heat of modernity stealthily making inroads
By Erfan Khan, APP
CHITRAL (Bumburet), Sept 4 (APP): Away from the fevers and frets of
life, a strange conglomerate of about 4,000 people dotting the
picturesque countryside of Chitral valley, continues discreetly to
battle with the temptations of modern life which apparently are
impacting the Kalasha culture. Not far from the main Chitral city
which usually keeps humming with life activity, the mysterious
people residing in isolation at the mountain tops, obscured by their
rites and rituals, are now seen struggling to protect their beliefs,
ideology and mode of living constantly at loggerheads with modern
life style entailing mundane temptations. These people clinging to
their centuries old traditions even are not exactly aware of their
ancestry, leaving such a controversial issue for the historians to
settle.
However, as the popular legend in the area goes on to say that few
soldiers from the formidable legions of Alexander of Macedonia had
settled in Chitral during their invasion of Indo-Pak sub continent
and this particular sect continued to inhibit the land as their
predecessor.
A muddy but atrocious serpentine road leads to the Kalash valley
which runs through the town of Drosh and Chitral city and then turn
to the left from Ayun village on Kunar river leading to one of the
most fabled destination in the world.
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