Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
It is like tryin to win back estranged woman .Better keep house. sooner or later woman will come to her senses. Don’t listen to assorted secus who have messed up the situation for so long. Just wait and control the streets. Learn from Chinese. Muslims can never be appeased, no matter how much you give in.
Rohi Desai’s words I endorse.
The Modi brigade would not be ready even to make these so called sacrifices.
They are blind with hate,revenge and retribution.
When most educated,well read and articulate among them,like Swapan Dasgupta for eg. are endorsing the Modi-Shah brutality of humiliation and subjugation of entire Kashmiri population
it is futile to expect it from the regime and its street goons.
Kashmir has no beggars because it gets 10% of central funds though it only has 1% of the population – see this https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/JampK-gets-10-of-Central-funds-with-only-1-of-population/article14506264.ece
In this entire debate all the talk has been about the Kashmiri. But what about the ordinary Indian who has sacrificed blood and treasure and development opportunities for a group of people who want to be treated as ‘special’ compared to other Indians. What is unfair about treating a man in Srinagar on the same level as someone in Mumbai or Chennai or Kolkata?
The advice may be good from the writer’s point of view. But fact is that ailments have been allowed to deepen from the decades for the sake of votebank politics. Now the patient has been admitted to a hospital. Let the doctors decide how to treat.
The steps you list the government should take are by no means “sacrifices”! 1. change of governor would be for better governance, since the Kashmiris would like the new governor more after what has happened there. 2. how can NOT RUBBING THE SALT IN THE WOUNDS BE A SACRIFICE? IS NOT BEING CRUEL A SACRIFICE? 3. how can stopping the Indians from teasing the wounded Kashmiris by talking about buying the land in Kashmir and marrying Kashmiri women be called a sacrifice?
For this author, only Muslim Valley is important. Hindu Jammu and Buddhist Ladakh are non-existent in his eyes. This is the kind of pampering Muslims get from the media.
“You guys are from Delhi, aren’t you? You think Kashmiris are poor and Modi can buy us. How much do you pay an unskilled labourer – Rs 350 a day? We pay these migrant laborers (mostly from North India) Rs 750 a day. Have you seen any beggar here? Keep your development and jobs.”
This statement should ring alarm bells in pseudo liberals because they thought jihad in Kashmir is because of lack of JOBS and development. The INDIAN govt has stood very very firmly on restrictions in KASHMIR and i would advocate that for at least JAN 2020. Jihad in Kashmir has to be dealt with brute force , there is no alternative to fight jihad or Islamic radicalism. This does not mean mass killings BUT a certain clean up and fear in these jihadi trainers has to be installed. Strategy in Kashmir is changed and now it will be more focused to leverage pro INDIA groups and sidelining of separatists. PAK as a player on ground is efficiently reduced.
One question will need a decent answer as time goes by. Aap ne yeh sab kiya kyon ? Why was the state converted into a UT ? What does the removal of its special status – worth little more than a flag – give the government in terms of control or security that was missing earlier ? Why does 370 hurt but not similar provisions for other states, including several in the north east, soon to include Nagaland as well ? What is so different between 35 A and the restrictions other hill and NE states impose ? 2. If security forces are observing restraint, one big reason for that is world opinion. There is no appetite for a high body count.
Forming an opinion based on one or two interactions with Kashmiris around Srinagar is the worst analysis ThePrint journalist can do. The Kashmiri who had been fed Pakistani propaganda from their childhood will take some time to realise the changed ground reality. Government is moving cautiously in the right direction. The sacrifices from BJP, the author has talk about can’t changed situation instantly. At no point of time the J & K governor and government can have differences in approaches to normalise situation in Kashmir. The focus must remain on slowly lifting restrictions and government is doing fine in that direction.
Had there been time and no personal risk involved, the columnist could have had not one or two but one hundred or two thousand interactions with ordinary Kashmiris. I don’t think he would have formed a materially different impression. Let us not mock the intelligence / common sense of all Kashmiris by claiming that they have been fed a propaganda diet since birth, do not know what is good for them.
Do they really know that Wahabi sect of Islam and Pakistan is good for them?
A very good balanced advise. I think center should follow it.
It is like tryin to win back estranged woman .Better keep house. sooner or later woman will come to her senses. Don’t listen to assorted secus who have messed up the situation for so long. Just wait and control the streets. Learn from Chinese. Muslims can never be appeased, no matter how much you give in.
Rohi Desai’s words I endorse.
The Modi brigade would not be ready even to make these so called sacrifices.
They are blind with hate,revenge and retribution.
When most educated,well read and articulate among them,like Swapan Dasgupta for eg. are endorsing the Modi-Shah brutality of humiliation and subjugation of entire Kashmiri population
it is futile to expect it from the regime and its street goons.
Kashmir has no beggars because it gets 10% of central funds though it only has 1% of the population – see this https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/JampK-gets-10-of-Central-funds-with-only-1-of-population/article14506264.ece
In this entire debate all the talk has been about the Kashmiri. But what about the ordinary Indian who has sacrificed blood and treasure and development opportunities for a group of people who want to be treated as ‘special’ compared to other Indians. What is unfair about treating a man in Srinagar on the same level as someone in Mumbai or Chennai or Kolkata?
The advice may be good from the writer’s point of view. But fact is that ailments have been allowed to deepen from the decades for the sake of votebank politics. Now the patient has been admitted to a hospital. Let the doctors decide how to treat.
The steps you list the government should take are by no means “sacrifices”! 1. change of governor would be for better governance, since the Kashmiris would like the new governor more after what has happened there. 2. how can NOT RUBBING THE SALT IN THE WOUNDS BE A SACRIFICE? IS NOT BEING CRUEL A SACRIFICE? 3. how can stopping the Indians from teasing the wounded Kashmiris by talking about buying the land in Kashmir and marrying Kashmiri women be called a sacrifice?
Keep on appeasing, the problem will not solve.
Well balanced article.Govt may consider the suggestions and proceed.
For this author, only Muslim Valley is important. Hindu Jammu and Buddhist Ladakh are non-existent in his eyes. This is the kind of pampering Muslims get from the media.
“You guys are from Delhi, aren’t you? You think Kashmiris are poor and Modi can buy us. How much do you pay an unskilled labourer – Rs 350 a day? We pay these migrant laborers (mostly from North India) Rs 750 a day. Have you seen any beggar here? Keep your development and jobs.”
This statement should ring alarm bells in pseudo liberals because they thought jihad in Kashmir is because of lack of JOBS and development. The INDIAN govt has stood very very firmly on restrictions in KASHMIR and i would advocate that for at least JAN 2020. Jihad in Kashmir has to be dealt with brute force , there is no alternative to fight jihad or Islamic radicalism. This does not mean mass killings BUT a certain clean up and fear in these jihadi trainers has to be installed. Strategy in Kashmir is changed and now it will be more focused to leverage pro INDIA groups and sidelining of separatists. PAK as a player on ground is efficiently reduced.
One question will need a decent answer as time goes by. Aap ne yeh sab kiya kyon ? Why was the state converted into a UT ? What does the removal of its special status – worth little more than a flag – give the government in terms of control or security that was missing earlier ? Why does 370 hurt but not similar provisions for other states, including several in the north east, soon to include Nagaland as well ? What is so different between 35 A and the restrictions other hill and NE states impose ? 2. If security forces are observing restraint, one big reason for that is world opinion. There is no appetite for a high body count.
Forming an opinion based on one or two interactions with Kashmiris around Srinagar is the worst analysis ThePrint journalist can do. The Kashmiri who had been fed Pakistani propaganda from their childhood will take some time to realise the changed ground reality. Government is moving cautiously in the right direction. The sacrifices from BJP, the author has talk about can’t changed situation instantly. At no point of time the J & K governor and government can have differences in approaches to normalise situation in Kashmir. The focus must remain on slowly lifting restrictions and government is doing fine in that direction.
Had there been time and no personal risk involved, the columnist could have had not one or two but one hundred or two thousand interactions with ordinary Kashmiris. I don’t think he would have formed a materially different impression. Let us not mock the intelligence / common sense of all Kashmiris by claiming that they have been fed a propaganda diet since birth, do not know what is good for them.
Do they really know that Wahabi sect of Islam and Pakistan is good for them?
A very good balanced advise. I think center should follow it.
Why doesn’t the reporter also report on the situation in jammu and ladakh?