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There has been a concerted attempt by the global and certain sections of Indian media to spread lies and falsehoods on Kashmir. The truth is something else.
Just the other day Rahul Pandita, Kashmiri himself had written about the mood in Kashmir. He said that there are a lot of issues there, but they aren’t the ones that many so-called journalists are suggesting.
In fact most of the journalists aren’t even doing an honest day’s work!
Now, Aarti Tikoo Singh, another Kashmiri discusses the situation in Srinagar. She also talks about the anger there. But the anger is against the politicians who have been taking the normal public for a ride all these 70 years!
To good measure they even suggested that the politicians who have been detained should be kept detained forever! The anger is against those who are cribbing about injustice. Irony is that people are angry at them for the injustice BY them all these years!
What Ms Tikoo says is interesting in this exchange on TimesNow. But what she wrote in her article, which she called “personal in nature” is even more striking. Her identity crisis and what she was going through post August 5 in a place she had had to abandon is indeed very poignant.
Later in the afternoon, while having Kashmiri tea at the home of a friend who practices the Islam of Nund Rishi, the patron Sufi saint of Kashmir, I heard him addressing my unexpressed thoughts: “You may think the entire Valley is angry with the decision. Trust me, most are heaving a sigh of relief. We are silent because we have been silenced by fear for 30 years. Let the guns and violence on the streets end and you will see all of us share the same identity as we have alwayshad for hundreds of years.”
I walked around the city and felt like introducing myself as a Kashmiri Indian. I was back home three decades after I had left. (source)
Finally the people may now be finding a road ahead. A road that was unavailable to them all these years! Under fear. Under threats. A demonic possession, as it were.
All fueled by the monsters who have only religious hate as their trade from across the border, and those within who have found it profitable to be willing commodities.
These politicians have acted with such unabashed entitlement that they are not even politicians anymore. They have become kings and queens. That is how they live and feed off of the very masses they feign love and concern for! They are wolves who have been guarding and feeding off of the chickens they say they are worried about!
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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