Most of the cases challenging Modi govt's decision seek to maintain exclusivity and deny the emotional and economic integration of J&K with the rest of India.
In 1990, thousands were shouting Azadi slogans on the streets of Kashmir, from its mosques all over, while baying for the blood of the minority Hindus.
When there exists no practical policy or intent to rebuild Kashmiri Pandit homes, how can anyone expect us to give a sure-shot answer on whether we want to return or not?
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Kashmiriyat died when people started speaking Urdu and in the name of god plundered raped murdered and cleansed Kashmiri Hindus.
If after all this Kashmiri Hindus still want 370 and 35 a restored then being sounding callous Kashmiri Hindus deserved this slaughter.
To prove this watch Shikara written by Rahul pandita who suffered the atrocities during religious cleansing. When he had an opportunity to tell me he reality he chose some romantic utopia.
If this is is the mindset of Kashmiri Hindus then they deserve to be refugees in their own country.
You must be sitting in a comfortable and secure place and typing on the computer somewhere in urban India, you are trying to judge people who have suffered.
Kashmiri Pandits have suffered enough. And so have Kashmiri Muslims. Pandits have lived there for centuries with Muslims, they know best for themselves and their future generations. Give sane voices a chance. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
The political map of the fragments of an empire takes a long time to settle and reach equilibrium. The 1947 war was one episode , the war with China in 1962 another episode and the creation of Bangladesh a third episode and the abrogation of Article 370 and fragmentation of J&K a fourth episode which changed the political map of the subcontinent. The story has not ended and the serial drama has many more episodes pending in the future. The latest twist linked to the fourth episode was a dramatic interlude in Ladakh and the story is still evolving but the latest story has again changed the political map of the region with many fingers previously under Indian boots now under Chinese boots. How the map of the region changes with time will continue to fascinate Observors but that it will change, of that there is no doubt if History is our guide
Article 370 has moved into the history books. Whether that is a good thing or not, history will judge. However, we should now be thinking of what comes in its place. What efforts will be made to reach out to ordinary Kashmiris, without many of the facilities and freedoms we take for granted in the rest of the country. When the tourists will return – leaving the pandemic to one side – for so much material well being is tied to that. Whether at all there will be any increase in investment and job creation. When young men will stop coming home covered in shrouds. When important institutions, led by the apex court, will demonstrate by their actions that the bond with the people of the state is as strong and unbreakable as India’s physical dominion over the land. Treat the Kashmiris with respect. Don’t foist a joke like the Apni party on them.
History will judge? The Chinese judged that what Modi did on 5 August 2019 in Kashmir was not a good thing! The result is they are in East Ladakh in a big way, occupying some Indian land. They had objected when the status of J&K was changed from state to UTs. You say, ” …. we should now be thinking of what comes in its place ….”. Well you know now the Chinese have come in place of Article 370.
Excellent piece. In fact, reading the views of some of the disaffected Pandits is discombobulating. One may quickly get confused on the historical facts of the past and present realities.
With greatest respect to many of the senior members of this grouping, their nostalgic trip down memory lane has no relevance to the legal status of Kashmir in the Union of India today. They are mostly yearning for a past which may have never really been, and where it was real, only enjoyed by the privileged few. Mostly they, along with powerful local Kashmiri Muslims, maintained themselves as a privileged class above the rest.
The beating heart of the Kashmiri Pandit community supports the integration of Kashmir fully and formally into the Union. Let’s move onto build a greater future together and not squabble over what was always a constitutional anomaly.
A single paid stooge who has no feeling of attachment to his community does not invalidate the views of all others. Pandits and dogras should be given arms training and should organise as well equipped and trained militia, to settle in their own villages near their ancestral homes while remaining safe from bigoted kms’.
Mr Chari and comrades were the first to speak up for Kashmiri Pandits , but are the first to abandon them when they question what was done to Art 370.
Chari hides several facts which have also not been brought out by our hyped up TV channels
a. Almost 80% of Art 370 clauses had already been made inoperative by a series of measures by Nehru and successors. A gradual and subtle approach would have avoided alienating the Valley and people of Jammu also who are now worried about the implications of Aug 5th 2019.
b. The same residence clauses which were abrogated in J&K are operative in many parts of NE under various sub sections of Art 371. That makes Aug 5th look like an action driven by vote bank sectarian politics.
c. BJP is trying to spread a fiction that emotional integration will be brought about by lawmaking. That has never been the case in any nation, and that argument is also part of the new generation of vote bank politics.
BJP could have instead have entered into dialog with the J&K Assemply and shown more confidence in the people who are voters there , and worked out a firm time table to bring in whatever residuary laws remained to be promulgated in J&K.
Let’s assume for a second the 370 was being diluted slowly.
Was this action giving
1. Citizenship to 7 lakh migrants from west Pakistan
2. Was it giving them right to vote in a democratic society
3. Was it invalidating the JK constitutional provision which said the valmiki community and their kids will only get cleaners jobs
4. On what basis 1 lakh rohingyas were given citizenship but not the migrants of west Pakistan or the valmiki community
5. Why sharia was imposed in 2008 in a secular country of ours
6. Why the Kashmiri Hindus were murdered, raped, plundered and cleansed in 1990 in the name of Arab god.
7. Why after spending lakhs of crore on JK there contribution to the country is 0.
If you answer these question based on facts and not done hyperbole then we can drive this conversation forward.
Kashmiriyat died when people started speaking Urdu and in the name of god plundered raped murdered and cleansed Kashmiri Hindus.
If after all this Kashmiri Hindus still want 370 and 35 a restored then being sounding callous Kashmiri Hindus deserved this slaughter.
To prove this watch Shikara written by Rahul pandita who suffered the atrocities during religious cleansing. When he had an opportunity to tell me he reality he chose some romantic utopia.
If this is is the mindset of Kashmiri Hindus then they deserve to be refugees in their own country.
You must be sitting in a comfortable and secure place and typing on the computer somewhere in urban India, you are trying to judge people who have suffered.
Kashmiri Pandits have suffered enough. And so have Kashmiri Muslims. Pandits have lived there for centuries with Muslims, they know best for themselves and their future generations. Give sane voices a chance. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
The political map of the fragments of an empire takes a long time to settle and reach equilibrium. The 1947 war was one episode , the war with China in 1962 another episode and the creation of Bangladesh a third episode and the abrogation of Article 370 and fragmentation of J&K a fourth episode which changed the political map of the subcontinent. The story has not ended and the serial drama has many more episodes pending in the future. The latest twist linked to the fourth episode was a dramatic interlude in Ladakh and the story is still evolving but the latest story has again changed the political map of the region with many fingers previously under Indian boots now under Chinese boots. How the map of the region changes with time will continue to fascinate Observors but that it will change, of that there is no doubt if History is our guide
Article 370 has moved into the history books. Whether that is a good thing or not, history will judge. However, we should now be thinking of what comes in its place. What efforts will be made to reach out to ordinary Kashmiris, without many of the facilities and freedoms we take for granted in the rest of the country. When the tourists will return – leaving the pandemic to one side – for so much material well being is tied to that. Whether at all there will be any increase in investment and job creation. When young men will stop coming home covered in shrouds. When important institutions, led by the apex court, will demonstrate by their actions that the bond with the people of the state is as strong and unbreakable as India’s physical dominion over the land. Treat the Kashmiris with respect. Don’t foist a joke like the Apni party on them.
History will judge? The Chinese judged that what Modi did on 5 August 2019 in Kashmir was not a good thing! The result is they are in East Ladakh in a big way, occupying some Indian land. They had objected when the status of J&K was changed from state to UTs. You say, ” …. we should now be thinking of what comes in its place ….”. Well you know now the Chinese have come in place of Article 370.
Excellent piece. In fact, reading the views of some of the disaffected Pandits is discombobulating. One may quickly get confused on the historical facts of the past and present realities.
With greatest respect to many of the senior members of this grouping, their nostalgic trip down memory lane has no relevance to the legal status of Kashmir in the Union of India today. They are mostly yearning for a past which may have never really been, and where it was real, only enjoyed by the privileged few. Mostly they, along with powerful local Kashmiri Muslims, maintained themselves as a privileged class above the rest.
The beating heart of the Kashmiri Pandit community supports the integration of Kashmir fully and formally into the Union. Let’s move onto build a greater future together and not squabble over what was always a constitutional anomaly.
A single paid stooge who has no feeling of attachment to his community does not invalidate the views of all others. Pandits and dogras should be given arms training and should organise as well equipped and trained militia, to settle in their own villages near their ancestral homes while remaining safe from bigoted kms’.
Mr Chari and comrades were the first to speak up for Kashmiri Pandits , but are the first to abandon them when they question what was done to Art 370.
Chari hides several facts which have also not been brought out by our hyped up TV channels
a. Almost 80% of Art 370 clauses had already been made inoperative by a series of measures by Nehru and successors. A gradual and subtle approach would have avoided alienating the Valley and people of Jammu also who are now worried about the implications of Aug 5th 2019.
b. The same residence clauses which were abrogated in J&K are operative in many parts of NE under various sub sections of Art 371. That makes Aug 5th look like an action driven by vote bank sectarian politics.
c. BJP is trying to spread a fiction that emotional integration will be brought about by lawmaking. That has never been the case in any nation, and that argument is also part of the new generation of vote bank politics.
BJP could have instead have entered into dialog with the J&K Assemply and shown more confidence in the people who are voters there , and worked out a firm time table to bring in whatever residuary laws remained to be promulgated in J&K.
Let’s assume for a second the 370 was being diluted slowly.
Was this action giving
1. Citizenship to 7 lakh migrants from west Pakistan
2. Was it giving them right to vote in a democratic society
3. Was it invalidating the JK constitutional provision which said the valmiki community and their kids will only get cleaners jobs
4. On what basis 1 lakh rohingyas were given citizenship but not the migrants of west Pakistan or the valmiki community
5. Why sharia was imposed in 2008 in a secular country of ours
6. Why the Kashmiri Hindus were murdered, raped, plundered and cleansed in 1990 in the name of Arab god.
7. Why after spending lakhs of crore on JK there contribution to the country is 0.
If you answer these question based on facts and not done hyperbole then we can drive this conversation forward.