Thanks to my learned friend who has put his comments on my blog about the Delhi Blasts. Let me clarify some things on what I wrote, firstly none of the people whom I criticised is a constitutional authority. P.C Halder and Home Minster form the bureaucracy/executive. Only people in the position like the President of India or the Governor of a State or the Election Commissioner or the Judges of Supreme Courts are constitutional authorities. Even if they were constitutional authorities, why should we not be able to criticise their conduct. Look at what the courts have said about the family of the President, there are cases of first degree murder on the immediate family members of the president and we should allow such people to hide behind the cloak of not criticising any constitutional authority. Look at the cases of the judges of the Ghaziabad courts defrauding the lowest rung employees of their life’s saving (P.F Scam). Our motto should be the one that I have taken from an American Security Organisation - IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE INTERCEPT. No one is above the law and that too when people’s lives are involved.
Secondly, again I was tagged along with a few million eunuchs who ran away, from where I do not know but if this blog commentator person is referring about the Kashmiri Migrants, well at least I and my community are clearly on one side and not like other Kashmiri’s who are still in the valley and chant Pro India slogans when they come begging for their monthly cash dole and anti India slogans when they reach back in the valley. My close family, friends as also the wider community to which I belong have been working in the government and security forces trying to fight terror not only in the Valley but in other parts of India (and around the world too). Lots of our community boys have laid down their lives fighting terrorist in the valley and more so like I have said before, our community does not need any certificate from anyone for our patriotic feelings; it is the others who need to show where they belong too; India or Jhootistan. Where ever our community has gone it has always raised the bar as far education and other activities is concerned. Look at the valley, even today thousands of kashmiri muslims send their kids outside of the valley so that they get some good education. This was not an inborn phenomenon as the Kashmiri muslims were deprived from good education before the Indian independence. Whatever mass Kashmiri education came in the valley was only after Bakshi’s saw that the biggest reason that the pundits did well for themselves was their strong emphasis on education. Look at the scenario today, the same things the pundits have done to the Jammu region as well. There is a mass education movement on and what is different from the previous times is that the dogra boys and girls are pushing for higher studies and not stopping at graduation. Jammu has witnesses an exceptional boom in their economy after the migration 1989-90 and lots can be attributed to the Pandits. As a community we have always pushing more on education and less on guns. Imagine the situation in valley now and see where Jammu is today, Valleys loss is Jammu’s gain. Pandits are not pickpockets or rapist but educationist and they have shown that in Jammu. I again say look at the valley and look at Jammu.
Thirdly as far as our identity is concerned, well it will be preserved come what may. That is protection that any Indian will get in our country, unfortunately people who have been fed on Jhootistan propaganda know very little of this. I really hope that the government of India freely opens up the muzzafarabad route for both trade and people to people contact so that people on the Valley realise that there the original state subjects of P.O.K have been put in a minority in their own state by the Punjabi’s through the Pakistani army’s ex servicemen rehab scheme. Better still has been done in Northern Areas – Gilgit and Baltistan, where the Shia’s after their rebellion during Zia’s tenure were brutally hacked and driven out of their land. The shia’s have been revolting frequently against this inhuman treatment in more than one way, Zia’s death is also blamed on a Shia airmen who came from the northern areas. In contrast if there is some semblance in P.O.K area (due to its propaganda nature), the northern areas are a black hole. There is no government and the only authority that people know is the Army and the I.S.I. Look in one of my previous blogs and you would see what Baloch’s say about Pakistan and how their leaders are treated by the Pak army and the ISI and we on the other hand pay for the medical treatment of Kashmiri separatist leaders. Helping some in need is the Indian ethos but let it not be known that Kashmiri’s are thankless people. Indian ethos stems from the old proverb that a fruit bearing tree is always bent downwards, so we need to be humble for all the acts that we do but the other side should not see that as our weakness.
Kashmiri people in the valley should see this and realise that what their ancestors did during the 1948 Pakistani - Kabaili raid was because they saw through the designs of Jhootistan. Today 99% of the valley folk would not know that today’s Lal chowk in Srinagar infamous for grenade attacks was actually the place where Pakistani - Kabaili’s who were caught by the JK Militia were publically executed in that square. As I have said before that an entire generation has grown up in the valley without any knowledge of their history and only knowing the Nizam e Mustafa that has been enforced privately since 1989.
p.s – Just got a post asking if I am in the army, Please NO. That was a typo error which I realised after I published it. I am a common Indian citizen who is in a private organisation and that is the reason that I do not write under my name. As for hunting down is concerned, well house to house search is common in all law and order manuals all around the world. In the recent muslim youth riots within Denmark, the police used the same techniques to quell the riots. The 2006 Paris immigrant riots were quelled by the French police only after a house to house raid at the Picasso estate area of Paris. In the 2000 BNP-South Asian riots, the Leeds, Leicester, bradford and other police forces in the U.K used house to house searches and identity parades to fight this menace. What we need to remember that community needs to be involved in such mass exercises and educated on the need for the same.
Also please do not publish hearsay stories about the truckers and this donation. Please all of it is based on hearsay - Half truths and full lies and lots of rumours. Lots of people have called saying that on the 6th October, Geelani is going to declare Independence after the Id namaz and Pakistan, Bangladesh and some other Muslim nations will recognise it. All this has stemmed from just one statement of Zardari at his swearing in press conference that something is going to be done within a month. Lots of our friends who are honest, secular Kashmiri’s (including Minority shia’s) have called our relatives to enquire if such reports were true. Ha Ha Ha.
Please we cannot be bogged down by half truths and full lies and lots of rumours. Please there is so much to do, there are so many people suffering and if we the lucky few who are blessed with good education and support waste our time on 400 acres of Land then there is nothing sadder to say. The faster that issue is over the better it is, we have family ties with so many kashmiri muslims that it is amazing that we have allowed the situation to reach such a turn. The main culprits are the leaders of the valley and then Jammu. Now if there are any bad feelings talk it across and clear it up. We would meet each other again and then as a saying goes – Hate a person but not so much that next time you meet, you would have to lower your eyes in shame.
My strength and that of this nation comes from our democracy. My personal motto IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS WE INTERCEPT gives me the freedom to criticise our own bad politicians, our own gods, our holy books which have some negative references and it is because of this freedom I still say that GOD BLESS INDIA. This great country of 5000 years, of a book of knowledge of Rig Veda and it has managed to retain its roots. It is amazing and nothing else. The more I have read about the ethos that defined this nation even in 1947, the more I respect it. The debates in the constituents assembly before the constitution was passed are iconic and should be read by one and all as to why we call this nation as great and why I will stand by each and every letter of the same.
More later.
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MARGINALIA : DIVIDE AND BE DAMNED!
Kashmir Times: Septermbet 21st, 2008
One of the greatest problems in the aftermath of the crisis over the Amarnath land transfer,besides the economic and political fallout throughout the state, is the Herculean task ofbridging the divide between the two regions of the state. The hardened posturing in Jammuevoked a similar reaction in the Valley. For the first time, the lines got blurred inKashmir between the anti-India sentiment and anti-Hindutava coupled with anti-Jammufeelings. The spark was provided by the anti-Kashmir discourse, that soon assumed communalovertones, when the agitation against revocation of the Amarnath Shrine Board land began inJammu. The call for economic blockade, which was publicly made by the Sangharsh Samitiseveral times, without any vehement opposition of the same by any quarters, was executedpartially or fully by the mobs on the highway at various places in Jammu region byruthlessly targeting Kashmir bound trucks and Kashmiri drivers. Such acts did not onlyseverely affect the supplies to the Valley but also to the other regions of the state likeRajouri, Poonch, Doda and Ladakh. Later, the Samiti chose to distance itself from the calland the government foolishly tried to cover up its own inefficiency in preventing ablockade, stating that technically it never occurred. But for the people of Kashmir, fearsparked by the highway attacks and shortage of supplies were enough reasons for panic and acounter agitation. For the first time in the history of the Kashmir conflict did Jammu become a word that could inspire not just anger but also hatred. This was a reaction to the 'anti-Kashmir' outburst in Jammu by the saffron brigade dominated by the Sangharsh Samiti, and unquestioned by even those who did not believe in this new wave of hatred invoked either out of fear, sheer complacency or the highly preposterous belief that all of Jammu's problems were created by the Kashmiri leaders. The net result was that Kashmir was as dreaded a word in Jammu, though not the in entire province as the diversity of cultures and demographic patterns in some areas yielded different affiliations, as much as Jammu became a disliked word in Kashmir. There are no dearth of incidents where the nomenclature became important for those who wanted to test the loyalties of the others. The threats to a newly opened Kashmir Square Mall, first of its kind in Jammu, to strike off the word 'Kashmir' from its nomenclature, forced the owners to change it to City Square. Hatred, and racist hatred at that, can be so shockingly amazing. How can cultures, identities and economies interlinked for years be intimidated intoshedding things that are so intrinsic to the lives of individuals and also collective cultures. Over the last more than one and a half century, both Kashmir and Jammu regionshave willingly borrowed from each other, assimilated and accommodated. How can everything be sifted and chaffed over night? How could names associated with business establishments,individuals be suddenly struck off? A number of men in Jammu may be named 'Kashmir Lal' or'Kashmir Singh'. Should they all look for a new identity? Transport companies, shops havenames inspired by Kashmir, a word that for years since the time of Maharajas, came to be anabbreviation for the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Should they all be rechristened? And whatabout Kashmiri Pandits, a major chunk of whom today live in Jammu? A vast majority of themwere vocally and physically active in Jammu's agitation, the migrant camps suddenly churningout Shiv Sainiks and Bajrangis by the dozens. Should they all be asked to assume a newidentity of 'Dogra pandits' or just 'migrant Pandits' with nothing to remind them or anybodyelse of the Kashmir link. And what about institutions like JK Bank, JK Police? Jammuites do not want the tag of Kashmir. Kashmiris do not want trade through Jammu. Sowhere really is the common ground? There may be nothing sacred about keeping J&K intact as aunit. But the interlinked economies of the two regions make building of bridges important.(Thankfully, majority of the business community in Jammu have belatedly understood thedivisive designs of the Hindutava groups that inspired Jammu's agitation and have refused toreact rashly to reservations raised by Kashmiri businessmen, though some have once againgullibly fallen into the trap.) And more than the economic question is the vitality of thecultural and religious overlappings. Jammu region has a good 30-35 percent Muslims, majorityof whom reside in Rajouri, Poonch and Doda. What is the fate of such regions in a dividedstate? And more importantly, what is the fate of Muslims in a communal divide? These areimportant questions that those talking about divisions need to grapple with. And solution,for building bridges, which is no ordinary task, lies mainly in these two complex dimensionsof economy as also cultural and religious overlappings. The SRTC employees agitation, withemployees from both Jammu and the Valley joining hands despite such a vitiated atmosphereshows the way. So does Jammu's past history of two decades when its people failed to succumbto any communal provocation and instead had begun to empathise with the increasing humanrights violations in Kashmir, which indicates the limited scope of the communal wave, thatis if it is treated in the right way. Those with a vested interest in unity and peace onlyneed to understand such signals, do a bit of re-introspection and then move ahead.
Discrimination: Myth or Reality
http://badamwaer.blogspot.com/2008/09/discrimination-myth-or-reality.html
Behind The Scenes:
http://badamwaer.blogspot.com/2008/09/behind-scene.html
KP Strategy..Reproduction of a thread on Orkut!
http://badamwaer.blogspot.com/2008/09/kp-strategyreproduction-of-thread-on.html
hi PFI, if i may call you that, firstly the executive is a consitutional authority, so is the prime minister and his council of ministers, refer articles 163-164 of the consitution of idnia. anyway, as you rightly said, that is irrelevant. the consitution itself grants us the right to criticise, with restrictions, under article 19. and it is our duty to do so. i am in total agreement when you say that 'no one is above the law'
secondly, i dont think it is appropriate for you or me, or the previsous blog commentator, to use words like eunuchs in a derogatory manner. firstly eunuchs are humans too and secondly this might be make you laible for violating the law of defamation under s.499 IPC.so much for 'no one is above the law,eh?"
from what you have written, this is how i see it. i cannot help but feel that you are very proud to be a kashmiri, not only that you are equally proud that you share this commanality with kashmiri muslims who are still residing in kashmir. otherwise why would it anger you when protestors in kashmir chant pro-independence slogans? i think that you feel betrayed by your fellow kashmiris. u feeel betrayed that your own people are doing something which is not in thier interest, which might end up destroying the place you were born in. if thats the sentiment behind all this then i truly sympathise with you, this is a sentiment which i share with you.
but do you think thats fair at your end. if there are people in kashmir, who truly feel that they want independence, do you have a right to object, just because you dont feel that way? does the fact that you think kashmir's future lies with india, and others dont,give you a right to label the entire pupulation as hypocrates. i dont think thats fair PFI. you must believe in the right of people to chose thier own destiny, they have a right of self-determination. surely you cant be so authoritatian in your outlook so as to deny people this basic right.
i dont think we should go into the internal happening in pakistan. no one in the right frame of mind would even begin to compare india with its crawling nieghbour.
though your knowledge of global happenings is quite impressive, (iam sure you are a journalist by profession), wehn you say house to house search is common in all law and order manuals, may i point out that "house to house" search doesnt happen in kshmir the way you might imagine it happeing in other countories or even other states in india. i ll bet you have never been in a "crackdown" in kshmir. ask someone who has seen his 70 year old father being slapped by an army man or his/her mother being dragged by her hair. i am sure all of them will agree that nothing about such a practice should be "common". what is sad is that the focus in kashmir,especially of the Pundit community is not on the human shade of the dispute but on the geographical side. they want thier land back, the land which they were forced leave, but they refuse to see that this land also belongs to the common kashmiri who has spent a lifetime in a troubled land, who has seen his family dies at the hands of the militants as well as of the army.
Chrinda Grindam Monga Daaaal!!
Jameen chayedi ae ji saanu!!
Kola doogra ti kariwakh darbadar ta khaarizaleel!
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