They are quarantined: Incommunicado Quarantine is for 40 days not more. Historically we know the ships and passengers were quarantined in isolation, preferably an island with a premonition of dreaded virus they may carry and will effect others. Quarantine may be used interchangeably with cordon sanitaire, and although the terms are related, cordon sanitaire refers to the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, in order to prevent an infection from spreading. The word quarantine comes from an Italian variant (seventeenth-century Venetian) of 'quaranta giorni', meaning forty days, the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals of various kinds, and both as part of border control as well as within a country. Venice was a incredible place in its heydays like modern Jammu and Kashmir. Although Venice was cherry for plate of war mongers like Napoleon or Ottomans but it always kept its pride as as glorious commercial center of Europe alike Jammu and Kashmir that retained its identity from war game between Pakistan and India more than half century and its perennial beauty is never hampered. Venice, ironically received killer plague from China through rats infiltration and Jammu Kashmir received terrorists through infiltration/intrusion and peace loving people received this killer virus from across border. When killer plague out broke in Venice, city official realised that it was the rat borne disease in killing the sanctity of the place, they enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full 40days before they should be permitted to enter in City and mingle with others. To this day, this number 40 quaranta in Italian served as a reminder of the origin of this word quarantine. For Jammu and Kashmir in same line the government offshore them in isolation fearing the dreaded virus should by jettisoned for quarantine. My question is that although today is 43rd day of quarantine but safe passage for quarantined kashmir people is far away and at the mercy of some people who are busy in planning to obliterate linguistic difference between brethren and gauging the map to magnify one language as numero uno for this republic. Quarantining of people raises questions of civil rights, fundamental rights especially in case of long confinement or segregation from society. But who cares? I have had my catharsis already watching this sacrilegious acts of people at the helm of affairs and compelled to expostulate my exasperation though this media. I really feel Asphyxiated.