Kashmir’s molehills



I’ve never doubted the BJP’s patriotism. What’s suspect is the wisdom it deploys to pursue national interest it tends to see through the prism of Hindutva.

Take for instance the party’s reaction to Kashmir interlocutor Dileep Padgaonkar’s comment that a permanent solution of Kashmir isn’t possible without the involvement of Pakistan. Its spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman felt the remarks made “even as (the three interlocutors) are about to start their assignment is unnecessarily internationalizing the process.”

Sitharaman is an excellent spokesperson. She holds well her party’s brief. But her comments on Padgaonkar are a study in political exaggeration. One fails to understand how the veteran journalist has internationalized Kashmir by recognizing Pakistan as a party to the dispute?

Kashmir is internationalized when Islamabad takes it up in the United Nations, demands a plebiscite under the aegis of the UN or seeks third party intervention. New Delhi explicitly rejects UN resolutions as having been superseded by the 1972 Simla Pact that provides a bilateral route to settling the issue.

It’s for this reason that Pakistan tries to give bilateralism a bad name. We’d actually be playing into its hands if we refuse bilateral talks with it on Kashmir.

To pre-empt that eventuality, India keeps Kashmir on the bilateral agenda short of agreeing to a change of borders or accepting tripartite talks that will bring Kashmiri leaders to the same table as India and Pakistan. What we’ve witnessed sometimes is an attempt at three-way engagement: India and Pakistan talking to each other and with Kashmiris separately.

As the principal Opposition party, the BJP’s within its rights to play the watchdog. But it’ll serve its cause better if it does not come across as prejudging the interlocutors—including Radha Kumar and MM Ansari—that have a difficult job to accomplish.

Restrained and informed criticism is what one expects from the BJP. But the otherwise erudite Sitharaman came across as playing to the gallery when she linked Padgaonkar’s remarks with pro-Pakistan Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s utterances at a seminar in Delhi. She showed scant regard for her listeners’ intellect in going a step further to drag in Omar Abdullah (for his interpretation of J&K’s accession to India) and the support he received from Rahul Gandhi to continue as CM.

In 1947, smaller princely states signed what’s known as the instrument of attachment (loosely called merger) and the bigger one’s the instrument of accession. A detailed and serious discussion—not verbal sniper fire—is needed to help people understand the distinction between the two to see Omar’s comments in perspective.

The demand for the J&K CM’s removal had come from three quarters: the BJP, the PDP and the agitating mobs. I can understand the impulse of the last two named in asking for Omar’s scalp. But it’s hard to imagine how the BJP overlooked the fact that discrediting the CM would discredit Gen-X of National Conference—the most vocal and time-tested pro-India force in the Valley.

Likewise, haven’t Geelani’s aggressive opponents in Delhi actually helped propagate his agenda better and wider by first disturbing his meeting and then demanding that he be booked for sedition? Was Sitharaman’s party oblivious of his track record while in power at the Centre between 1998-2004?

Given the way the BJP looks at things while out of power, it’ll want Padgaonkar and company booked for treason if they turn up at the Hurriyat hardliner’s doorsteps.

About time the BJP realized that India’s interests wouldn’t be served in Kashmir by booking Geelani for sedition or sending Afzal Guru to the gallows. A democracy of our standing can live with such aberrations to keep others from compounding the trend.

While I was in Muzzafarabad in 2004, the late Maqbool Butt’s brother came calling on me for help in gaining amnesty to return to India. Why do you want to live in the country you left to fight with a gun? I asked. “Because I had greater freedom there to state my piece (of azadi from both India and Pakistan) than I have it here,” he replied. Let’s keep it that way Ms Sitharaman.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (27 votes, average: 2.07 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...
  • http://- Rajeev

    I agree with Vinod that BJP is over-reacting. It should keep quiet for now and let interlocutors start working. It should keep sharp eye on developments that are in response to these interlocutors actions or statements. I am pretty sure these interlocutors are as patriotic as Congressmen and will take care of Indian interest as per congress ethos.
    The need of the hour is to bring separatists to the centerstage and hand over fate of J&K in their hands because only they know the true meaning of justice, secularism and democracy.
    I am sure, India will be able to settle Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists.

    [Reply]

    Ashish Reply:

    @Rajeev,
    I totally agree with you (and with Vinodji).
    We should also ask the Maoists to participate in the central government. With this in view, we should send Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha as interlocutors.
    Perhaps Kishenji can be PM of the government of national reconciliation.
    Jai Hind!

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Absolutely..after all our contituition permits freedom of action and speech as long as it is not against the mighty dynasty and its darbaris.

    [Reply]

    anshu Reply:

    Congress Terror is the biggest challenge in this country.

    anshu Reply:

    I strongly objected

    “to pursue national interest it tends to see through the prism of Hindutva.” This is what ,how you are playing with sentiments of Hindus.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @Vinod Sharma,

    I think we are unnecessarily scared of taking the Kashmiri separatists and idiots inside India by the horns.

    Just because Arundhati is a woman with cut hair and speaks English, and has pretensions of being a writer she is allowed to rabble rouse by an over reverent media and HOme Minister. I say pretensions, because if anybody reads the God of small things, without getting psyched by the hype, he can only conclude that it is childish gibberish. Okay.. Okay… the autobiographical book has a grand climax of an incestuous sex scene between a brother and a sister– which probably got her the booker.

    But, in a democracy a publicity seeker can survive. Will she survive in the communist-Maoist dictatorship she espouses , or in the fundamentalist Pakistan style state orthodox crow Geelani proposes? No never…

    Hers is just a scream for publcity.

    Unfortunately we have given the same over reverence to the hardliners in Kashmir. Time we just tri-furcated and let a smaller Kashmir sink or swim without subsidies provided by the rest of India..

    Why debate endlessly, forever…

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    For me Arundharti is as good as Praful Bidwai..Totally useless…fit to ignore.

    [Reply]

  • Sanjiv

    haha..vinod ji…i really had a laugh when arnab and others walked all over you tonite on times now….hehehe…you guys are getting a taste of your medicine now…and it is so delightful to see u scurrying for cover…

    sorry i am not a bjp guy….its that i just dont like this dynasty business…

    [Reply]

    Ankit Reply:

    Haha. It was extremely funny to see Vinod Sharma getting totally riled when Mahesh Jethmalani told Sharma on his face that he is a Congressi journalist. Truth hurts! The best comeback Vinod Sharma could do was to say that Jethmalani is a BJP lawyer, which Mahesh accepts. Unlike Vinod Sharma, who is a Congress stooge under the cover of journalist, Jethmalani is an open member of the BJP.

    I must say, poor Vinod Sharma must be badly bruised today!

    [Reply]

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @ha ha brigade
    You guys obviously have nothing to say on Chari’s slugfest with Swapan….selective amnesia, is it?

    [Reply]

    Sanjiv Reply:

    Ha ha ..they are ijiots as well….Ha Ha…

    Vishy Sankara Reply:

    Infact i felt Vinod replied to Jethmalani’s taunt quite well..

    Sometimes these smart lawyers, step on their toes unwittingly .. I remember, Harish Salve arguing against Corruption ( in CWG) and someone reminded him on TV, that he is one the lawyers defending who else Lalit modi..

    Seshadri Chari is like Ashok Singhal. BJP is well served by not sending him to the TV studios.. (Tarun Vijay is any day better)

    Kushagra Reply:

    Sir, the debate was in very bad taste. You were the only person who came out with dignity intact. I congratulate you for not stooping to the level of some of the other participants. Wish a more constructive debate happened as I was curious listen your views on the subject.

    Rajeev Reply:

    I also watched the debate-
    1. I must admit that both Mahesh Jethmalani and Vinod Sharma engaged in verbal duel but it was within limists of decency. Vinod sharma was uncomfortable when labelled congressi journalist whereas Mahesh Jethmalani agreed that he was a lawyer and with BJP.

    2. Manish Tiwari as usual was barking without substance. Infact Sheshadri Chari looked very sober compared to arrogant-smirky and non-serious Manish Tiwari. Manish Tiwari held RSS guilty by ASSOCIATION and when as if Congress high command (read rajiv & Sonia) can also be held guilty for Sikh genocide, by association, Manish Tiwari went beserk and destroyed the debate single handedly. I seriously hate Tiwari for his ill-manners. He is losing congress sympathisers everyday by his uncontrolled barking.

    3. Kamal Farooqui – He is first rate muslim communalists who kept bring muslim angle in every sentence. He is basically a soft-terrorist.

    B.V.SHENOY Reply:

    Dear Shri Vinod Sharma,

    It is sad to see you turning, from being a mere secularist, even a likeable one at that, into a secular extremist, calling into question our country’s six decades old position that Kashmir is NOT A DISPUTE, but an issue. The dispute is about POK, or have you forgotten? You have also risen in vociferous support of Omar Abdullah, who has negated Kashmir’s merger with India, when all these years J&K has been one of the Indian states, albeit with article 370, unique to it.

    Let me also disabuse you of the notion that Shimla agreement nullifies UN resolutions on plebiscite. Where, can you clarify, is it specified? In that case why doesn’t India declare clearly that UN resolutions are dud, null and void post 1972? Why are we making no efforts to withdraw our complaint against Pakistan from the UN?

    Now, coming to this “interlocutor”, Dileep Padgaonkar. It is, in your new avatar as a secular fundamentalist, totally predictable for you to rise in his defence, because, he too is widely referred to as a secular fundamentalist. He once declared, on assuming the chief editor’s (TOI) post, that NEXT TO THE PRIME MINISTER, HE HOLDS THE MOST IMPORTANT POST! Which is, perhaps, why our non-political Prime Minister holds him in such awe, that he found him suitable for such a sensitive task.

    BUt, with his very first utterances, he has shown that he is totally out of his depths in the chilling scenario of Kashmir’s politics. He has no business to involve Pakistan into the talks, which is NOT his job; he has to interact with all sections of the people of the state, including Hindus, Sikhs, Ladakhis, Budhists, Shias etc and report back to the PM. He has, in one huge jump, gone straight into the international arena by calling for the involvement of Pakistan!

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Please read-
    ‘when as if Congress high command (read rajiv & Sonia) can also be held guilty for Sikh genocide, by association, Manish Tiwari went beserk and destroyed the debate single handedly. I seriously hate Tiwari for his ill-manners. He is losing congress sympathisers everyday by his uncontrolled barking.’

    as

    ‘when asKED if Congress high command (read rajiv & Sonia) can also be held guilty for Sikh genocide, by association, Manish Tiwari went beserk and destroyed the debate single handedly. I seriously hate Tiwari for his ill-manners. He is losing congress sympathisers everyday by his uncontrolled barking.’

    [Reply]

  • Johnson Thomas K

    I agree with Sharmaji broadly but what Sharmaji seems to forget is the track record of the Nehru-Indira dynasty and their network of coteries!

    It was Nehru who gave away UNSC seat offered to India in favour of Taiwan (China became the UNSC member later)

    It was Nehru who gave away the Executive Seats offered to India in the global financial Institutions such as the IMF, World Bank etc.

    It was Nehru’s blind trust of the Chinese which made India so unprepared against a Chinese invasion and the “Capitalist” US President had to give an ultimatum to China to withdraw from India or else US would declare a war on China- not because US loved India but for naked geopolitical reasons.

    It was Nehru who called Truman Boorish on his way home from the USA where nearly 100 billion US dollar investment was offered by top US companies for India………..

    Please Sharmaji tell us how easy is to trust the Indira-Nehru dynasty which speaks like the British about India and who inserted two undefined cardinal constitutional principles in our constitution called secularism and socialism.

    Socialism and Secularism are not defined in the Indian Constitution neither by a competent court- whereas the democratic form of government in India with the powers, duties, responsibilities of the respective executives, legislatures, judiciaries both at the central and state government level are all defined in the Indian Constitution.

    Only politicians, academicians, vested interests, journalists, historians, opinion makers and commentators along with politicians have defined what socialism and secularism are. This itself is a betrayal of the constitutional aspirations of the 1.2 billion peoples of India.

    [Reply]

  • http://aamjanata.com Vidyut

    BJP gets into incoherent spasms of outrage at the smallest whiff of Pakistan. One good reason why it can’t lead the country till we find peace with Pakistan (never?).

    BTW, Arundhati Roy’s contribution to India mustn’t be underestimated. She joined both the Narmada Bachao Andolan, and the Maoists when they were at the peak of fame. From then on, the movements got so derailed by posturing that they lost a lot of credibility and started floundering. Now, Arundhati has joined the Azadi movement at the peak of its fame. Do the math, ye fools :D

    [Reply]

  • Rahim

    Thought process of interlocutors is apparent with remarks of Padgaonkar…..if interlocutors are going to pursue pakistani agenda, what benfit would it give to country……BJP as opposition is doing right job…and it seems that you are also fascinated by idiots like Radha Kumar and Padgaonkar….

    [Reply]

  • ramesh

    I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH VINOD SHARMA.NEHRU WAS FIRST TO TAKE IT TO UN. WHY NEHRU UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS DID AGREE TO ANY CONDITIONS OF PARTY ( HARI SINGH ),WHO NEEDED HELP AND PROTECTION ,IS ANYBODY’S GUESS.IF VINOD SHARMA HAS ANY STREAK OF JOURNALISM IN HIM ,HE SHOULD THROW LIGHT ON THIS ASPECT.I UNDERSTAND VINOD SHARMA ,WHO IS DYING FOR SOME RECOGNITION FROM CONGRESS, WILL NEVER COMMENT ON THAT.
    HE MUST UNDERSTAND IF GREAT PADGAONKAR FEELS ,THAT PAKISTAN HAS TO BE INVOLVED,WHAT DOES IT MEAN,
    -HIS NEXT STEP IS DISCUSSION IN PAKISTAN.
    -IS HE APOLICY MAKER.
    -HE IS PRO CONGRESS LIKE YOU IS WELL KNOWN,IS CLEAR FROM TV DEBATES, IS IT CONGRESS VIEW.
    IS HE SAYING A PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION,THAT KASHMIR IS INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA IS MEANINGLESS.

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain
  • Vinay

    “India’s interests wouldn’t be served in Kashmir by booking Geelani for sedition or sending Afzal Guru to the gallows.” :
    Arresting Geelani, ok I can understand India’s hesitation to an extent. But not sentencing Afzal Guru? …Hey Ram, where are we heading? People who killed Mrs. Gandhi, didn’t they get sentenced? Was there no pressure then?

    But would still agree with Sharma’s suggestion for BJP to remain quite. Sometimes, keeping quite would expose the opposing party. Like the events that unfolded after the Mandir-Masjid verdict. Hindutva group’s muted expression (without celebrations) exposed the muslim hardliner’s stubborn mentality. If it was any other way, everyone would have said Muslim’s response was only in retaliation.

    [Reply]

    HPN Reply:

    Totally agree. No need for me to write a separate response.

    [Reply]

  • Kushagra

    So whats next for Arundhati Roy – Punjab is not integral part of India? Arunachal Pradesh an integral part of China? Sikkim not an integral part of India? Areas under Maoist terror not integral part of India?

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    She will start claiming that all Indian states are disputed because they have muslim population so pakistan has claim over those…It is start of anarchy..Rahul Baba is another version of arundhati…

    [Reply]

    Kushagra Reply:

    Who needs enemies when we have people in the making of Arundhati Roy.

    [Reply]

    farid Reply:

    ————REGARDING—– ARUNDHATI ROY———–

    It reminds me about a BANGLADESHI woman writer—she wrote in favor of woman—-some Muslim clerics in BANGLADESH — opposed her—-they say her writings were against RELIGION—-ISLAM— and forced her to leave her country.
    She took refuge in INDIA—– majority Indians — not majority Muslims—stood in her favor–but she is in EUROPE now.
    I do not agree with her views–on various points—but I also do not support her expulsion.Present government though sympathetic to her — do not dare to allow her back to Bangladesh. I WONDERED WHY SO MANY PEOPLE STOOD UP AGAINST A LADY——– objected to her freedom of writing ?

    —NAME OF THE LADY IS TASLIMA NASREEN.

    NOW I WONDER—after going through the views expressed in here—LOVE FOR TASLIMA [ BY THOSE INDIANS ] WERE BASED ON IDEALS —– OR—- OTHERWISE ?

    [Reply]

    Kushagra Reply:

    You answered your question yourself. Taslima Nasreen had to ‘escape’ from Bangladesh for what she wrote, whereas Arundhati Roy for all public’s wrath can question or attack Indian democracy, is guaranteed security for her views from the very same Indian Constitution she chose to attack. She need not flee to any other country.

    If Muslims feel Taslima Nasreen has written anything against I-s-l-a-m, they are perfectly right in opposing her. India’s decision to provide asylum to her is nothing but a diplomatic step. It has nothing to do with ideals. Just like Qatar’s decision to give citizenship to M.F.Hussain is not about recognising freedom of expression but about the fact that he is only offending Hindu sentiments.

    [Reply]

    farid Reply:

    @ Kushagra

    Brother,
    Perhaps due to my limitations– I could not convey–what I wanted to say.
    My thinking is that—
    Every one has the right to — differ– with–another persons– ACTS //ACTIVITIES.
    Opponents should not be attacked—PERSONALLY– in filthy words.
    For expression of ones views–HE // SHE–should not be intimidated–leading to HIS // HER escape.
    In my previous posting–I wondered–WHETHER THERE ARE SIMILARITIES–AMONG THE —-PEOPLE WHO OPPOSED TASLIMA IN BANGLADESH—-AND—PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED TASLIMA IN INDIA–
    ACT OF GOVERNMENTS WERE NOT IN MY MIND.
    I AM DELIGHTED–TO KNOW–GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IGNORED MS.ROY”S UTTERANCES— WILL NOT PROSECUTE HER–MATURED // WISE DECISION .

  • Candor

    An interlocutor at national level should not be comment internationally. What right has interlocutor to comment that Pakistan will be a party when they are not appointed to deal with Pakistan also ? Some people simply go over buoyant and this happened with Padgaonkar. BJP reaction is obvious and right and Congress should applause such concerns than shrugging them off and instruct interlocutors to comment within given task.

    [Reply]

  • http://incorrectpolitically.wordpress.com/ Akhilesh

    Dear Vinod Ji,
    I must say that for the first time, really, I saw you loosing your cool on a TV show. Mahesh Jethmalani did manage quite a feat yesterday on Times Now :)

    But here is the thing – without any provocation you first belittled Mahesh by branding him as a non-eminent lawyer ! Till then he had spoken nothing against you. After that it was obvious that he will get back at you. And he did. And you lost your equanimity – arguing for fairness and why should you ghave to face insult etc ? Was it not a little hyypocritical of to argue for fairness after starting it yourself?

    This is the trait that riles many, including those writing on this blog. Personal abuse coming from “liberal” brigade is fine but they should never get it back !

    By the way, what’s wrong if someone brands you as a Congress sympathiser? It is no crime to be one. Journalists have choices too and it’s perfectly normal to have one openly. It’s only the protestation to the contrary that makes your motives a suspect !

    [Reply]

    vinod sharma Reply:

    @akhilesh
    Your advice is well taken.

    [Reply]

    Akhilesh Reply:

    Thanks Vinod JI.

    It really takes moral courage to accept critical advice on an open forum. Kudos to you :)

    [Reply]

  • Praveen Saxena

    Has the UPA govt under Manmohan Singh shifted its position from what the Indian Parliament had unanimously resolved on 22 Nov 1994. Extract quoted below.

    ” On behalf of the People of India,

    Firmly declares that-

    “The state of Jammu & Kashmir has been, is and shall be an integral part of India and any attempts to separate it from the rest of the country will be resisted by all necessary means;

    India has the will and capacity to firmly counter all designs against its unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity; and demands that –

    Pakistan must vacate the areas of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, which they have occupied through aggression; and resolves that –

    all attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of India will be met resolutely.”

    The Resolution was unanimously adopted. Mr. Speaker.

    The Resolution is unanimously passed.

    February 22, 1994 “

    [Reply]

  • vijay Kumar

    These so called intralocuters are going to come out with a dead rat at the end of the dialogue process !! I am again proposing a solution which is feasible, practical and achievable. This will bring about real peace !

    Trifurcating JAMMU, LADAKH and KASHMIR-
    ————————————————————–
    a solution to India’s problems

    Jammu and Kashmir, the northest part of united India, is our pride and yet today is crying needing our helping hand and a healing touch. So many formulae have been tried in the J&K and yet nothing seems to work as finally the separatists and the Pakistanis start creating problems and violence. Let us now, as Indians, seriously take up the proposal for tri-furcating J&K. This makes sense seeing the history and the violence which has almost killed 50,000 people.

    This will strengthen the secularism of India. If we can have separate states of Ladakh and Jammu, and Kashmir is reduced to 2500 sq km, things will be easily managable.

    The Kashmir problem which looks sizeable on the world map would immediately be reduced to the size it actually is. To a narrow strip of land, 30 km by 70 km in size.

    We could then use our resources to win over the hearts and minds of the people in this strip of land. As well as create a good infrastructure for tourism and industry.

    Let us at this point also remember that today, as Ladkah has been hit by a cloudburst and the population out there suffers and Sikhs In the Kashmir Valley are being asked by separatists to convert to Islam and join the violent movement, it is the separatists in the valley who are hogging the headlines and consuming all of the state’s budget….

    The need for this tri-furcation has never been as urgent as now….

    The salient features.

    a) Kashmir should be divided in such a manner that the river flow to the rest of India is unhampered. And our military and civil administration can have a better control over the borders and insurgents.

    b)Terrorist violence basically happens in 2500 sq km. Once J&K is trifurcated, it would be easy for the army and the civil administration to control 2500sq km

    c)A plebiscite will never happen as we are too strong to let the world force us. However in case of a hypothetical situation that it does, then India has the right of taking the vote of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir.

    d) Pakistan has already integrated Baltistan as a seperate state, so we have to see what others are doing. In fact they have changed the demographic pattern of Muzzafarabad and occupied Kashmir so that Punjabis are in a majority.

    e) Once kashmir is reduced to 2500 sq km, it will make the separatists realise that their dream of a small landlocked independent country is futile.

    f) We can revoke section 370 for Jammu and Ladakh immediately after trifurcation so that patriotic Indians from all over the country can buy land and settle there.

    g) Ladakh has Lakes, mountains, and calmness as well as Buddhist tourist spots. A huge potential exists. While Jammu attracts lakhs for the Vaishno Devi Yatra.Once they shine, Kashmiris will be inspired to give up the gun and join the mainstream

    h) People of Jammu and Ladakh have time and again asked for separate states or UT status. Let us make them as states. Srinagar can be the capital of all three distinct identities of Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir, and would be a Union territory.

    i) There is a huge section of people in Kashmir, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who always favoured India over Pakistan or freedom. They would always remain with us. Infact they would work with double zeal to get their brothers who have been misled, back into the mainstream.

    j) We should remember that tri-furcation is not secession or ceding ground to Pakistan. Infact, by dividing states in the North East of India we have considerably managed to reduce the regional tensions. Further on, division of PEPSU led to three happy states of Punjab, Haryana and HImachal. And more recently, the creation of Chattishgarh, Jharkhand and Uttrakhand has led to a fast paced development of these areas….

    At the end of the day all people from the J&K region would be proud to be Indian. Currently we are holding the people of Jammu and of Leh-Ladakh hostage to the political machinations of a few outsiders.

    Why should we not, as Indians, push our government to start working on this tri-furcation?

    It is your duty as a proud Indian to tell your friend, your email contact, your local politician that he has to work for this.

    MAIL THIS TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS AS A STARTER !

    [Reply]

    B.V.SHENOY Reply:

    Vijay Kumar,

    your thesis is well argued and is eminently implementable. It is also possible to safeguard our river assets. India should take bold steps disregarding all secular and pseudo liberal criticism. India should also move fast to correct the imbalance in the demography of Kashmir valley created by the forced exit of Hindus and Sikhs by abrogating article 370 and try to reverse the majority-minority ratio within the next ten years. Only there lies India’s security and safety.

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    @ B.V. Shenoy ,

    Thank you!
    We have to work on this line for the sake of our country. Unfortunately administration and politics in India revolves around static paralysis. Noise and heat and no movement forward.

    I can bet my bottom rupee that this dialogue will not yield any result. It is either a time pass or a forum for idiots to discuss their fixed positions. As well as an opportunity for publicity seekers like Arundhati to come centre stage.

    Has she ver done a single positive act for India and Indians?

    Why should we not silently move on the tri-furcation to take out the wind from the sails of Anti-nationals…

    [Reply]

  • ashok lai

    Dear Vinod sharma,
    I have always admired your balanced and apolitical views on sensitive matters that our country is never short of. Your ‘blogs’ under the heading “seperated at birth” make a very informative study. All of us who are also sensitive citizens and who also have a patriotic spirit within us surely have something to say but rarely find a right forum. I hope this medium provides us one.
    When Dilip Pudgaonkar made a statement that there can be no solution for Kahmir “dispute” without taking Pakistan in the talks, he was right in a way. Why has India always forgotten that it is Pakistan who is sitting over the Indian area called POK. The definition of POK is very crutial to India’s arguments. For example, even India’s assertion that Pakistan is using its territory for training and planning terrorist attacks will technically become toothless if Pakistan starts referring to the POK as not a part of Pakistan. It can always argue that it is a disputed land where insurgency has spread and not technically a part of Pakistan.
    So Indian arguement should always be to regain its lost territory rather than harping on Pakistan’s using its territory for training terrorists. If India asserts its claim of POK and Pakistan demands a part of Indian side of Kashmir then the two can thrash out an amicable solution by recognising the
    LOC as Indo – Pak border once and for all. The other alternative is of course a repeat of 1948 with our forces going through and through the POK which I am too sure they are capable of.
    As regards the Confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two countries, there is no place for them in the present circumstances. While you open the borders for trade, travel and friendship, they will use it for infitration, smuggling of arms and narcotics.
    Let both countries decide about the borders
    As for the Kashmiris sentiments, they were a part of united India and the british rulers merged them with India due to some consideration. When the muslims across the country have accepted the accession why are they so special. That too after dishoming physically the majority Hindu population with the help of Pakistan in the last 30 out of 60 years.
    I think our governments perspective of the Kashmir issue should be more assertive than submissive towards those who have secessionist and separatist inclinations.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    i feel this women A. Roy needs a good psychiatric treatment . the b*tch seems to be crossing her limits.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    Arundhati Roy is an insane , good for nothing , shameless and a worthless anti-national b*tch.

    it would be better if the Indian media stops highlighting her opinions and statements.

    [Reply]

    Praveen Saxena Reply:

    About this Roy woman , I recall that some years back there an issue about a bungalow which she had built on the outskirts of Pachmarhi , which the MP Govt of the day had objected to on the ground that it was built on forest land. I believe some action had also been initited against her. But then at that time she was on the right side of the political powers and the whole issue was hushed up.

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    Praveen ji,

    She came up as a writer claiming that she was an architect. Truth was she flunked four times in the Delhi School of Architecture and was booted out.

    Then her publishers told the public that she was an aerobics teacher. In 1992 when Star TV had just landed, a female aerobics teacher in hot pants probably fired the imagination of the jury of the booker. Add to it the spicey scene in the semi autobiographical book of the incestous relation between brother and sister.

    And Arundhati ROy was born…

    She has never written a novel after that… and probably never will.

    Of course we Indians are always fascinated by fragile looking girls spouting out English! :)

    NObody confronts her on the lies she speaks….

    [Reply]

    Praveen Saxena Reply:

    Dear Vijay

    Have u seen “Massey Sahib” . If u have , u may remember Raghubir Yadav’s ( Massey Sahib)Adivasi wife ,loosely wrapped in a dhoti and without a blouse . It was this Roy woman. She married the Producer / Director of that movie , a chap by the name of Pradip Kishan , an obnoxious guy with similar toxic views. What cannot be said for sure is whether she continues to be married to that chap or has moved on to the next milestone.

  • r.subramanian

    In yesterday’s newshour programme on Timesnow TV channel, the writer was rightly furious in not being given enough opportunity for speaking his views because the number of panelists to the Sangh parivar was large. As a frequent viewer of that programme, I feel that this is the first time Sangh parivar panelists had theopportunity of participating in such a programme in such numbers contrary to the convention that the panelists will consist mostly the SAS (Self appointed secular) parivar especially the separatists and anti national elements.Even on such occasions, the representaives from the Congress party would always take much time by talking unnecessary issues without giving straight replies especially on their misdeeds.But the writer never made such serious objections but had his say as he too was given oppourtunity.Havingbeen given an opportunity, though little, may I know why the writer did not rebutt or offer his views and take on the RSS spokesperson who touched on the bogus electoral victory of the HM(world famous but never talked by even BJP members) and the inaction of the Government against the sikhs?Why the secular softness and selective sympathy and criticisms?

    [Reply]

    B.V.SHENOY Reply:

    Subramanian,

    Mr. Vinod Sharma might have been right in complaining that he was not given his due share of the TV time, but, if you compare the time taken and the decibels employed in the debate, the sangha parivar was outshouted by the Singh parivar (read congress team of Tiwari+Sharma+Faruqi). In fact, Manish Tiwari, as is his wont, outshouted even the anchor of the flop show, testing the patience of the silent viewers and mostly getting on the nerves of everybody.

    [Reply]

  • aryamihir

    Instead of giving some insight on critical issues as usual Vinod Sharma has used his blog to propagate congress vaani by attempting to confuse readers and criticize BJP.
    To start with Vinod Sharma makes a very week attempt in criticizing the BJP and its spoke person for criticizing Dileep Padgaonkar (doesn’t he sound like Manish Tiwari inspired) but matter of the fact is BJP is very right in criticizing Mr.Padgaonkar because he has no business of airing his view as interlocutor and also if Pakistan is part of kashmir issue then it is because of the mistakes of the congress government. 1971 was an excellent opportunity to settle kashmir issue but congress missed on that. Now that mistake can not be legitimized by these interlocutors. When kashmir is integral part of this country then how can Pakistan have any role to play except by giving up POK , that too we have to take it way they are not going to give it.
    Vinod Sharma also makes a very feeble attempt in Protecting Omar & Rahul (the baba log) when matter of the fact is accession of Kashmir is also superseded by the parliament when it declared entire state of J&K, POK and Aksai Chin as integral part of India so their in no sense in revisiting instrument of accession until and unless intention of JK CM is to ignore or bypass that declaration.
    BJP is very right when they ask for the resignation of the incumbent CM of JK as law and order has taken a back seat and entire state administration and machinery have gone for the toss. Infact laloo Yadav looks like a performer against the performance this CM of JK. the reasons that Vinod Sharma gives in the defense of JK CM is so hilarious that he himself would be laughing all the way after reading them.
    Now finally coming to Gilani and his Delhi speech, it is amazing that even on this Vinod Sharma can not criticize Central/delhi govt but he chooses to criticize BJP to raking it up. How shame full Vinod Sharma? DoesThis means every body and any body who makes sedacious speech should be ignored else his view point will be known to masses? Mr. Sharma your congress masters never thought so else they would have never imposed the emergency. This is the difference Mr.Sharma that when political leaders of this country speak against corruption and authoritarian rule this country sees emergency but when Muslim saperatists talk of breaking this country people like you start criticizing the people who take on these separatists. Way to go Mr. Sharma you are truly your masters voice.

    [Reply]

  • Rohit Kumar

    This is not fair sharmaji deleted my comments earlier, is it a blog or sharmaji trying to create its fans club.

    [Reply]

  • JR

    I have seen Vinod Sharma arguing on TV with BJP. He never showed any restrain and now asking BJP spokesman to show it.

    [Reply]

  • Pankaj#1

    Vinodji,
    After many months at this blog, I was shaken by your advocacy of interlocutors. I am boiling with rage about the drama being enacted at present with Congress, continuing on the time honoured tradition of giving up indian territory to all rascals. It started with lamely acquiescing with China over Tibet, giving up that buffer state to be counted as Internationalists and falsely a fair nation. That brought China, breathing down our neck to get Nepal, Arunachal, Kashmir and whatever it can acquire forcefully. Now, in the same tradition,Dilip Padgaonkar is claiming that Pakistan is a legitimate party to Kashmir problem??. Congress could not get vacated that forceful occupation of Kashmir from Pakistan and whatever remained, after heroic sacrifices from Indian Jawans and Officer, whatever they could salvage from a very bad situation, You want to give to Pakistan??. What Pakistan could not get in battelfield, you people want to give it at discussion table???. What is wrong with India? Every Nation is nibbling at its land and Indians are losing this battel of attrition.
    The name of DALIP, Radha Kumar and M.M. Ansari are highly suspicious. No nationalist leader has been included. what I am suspecting is the involvement of these : Non State Actors: to do the dirty job of selling India, which GOI has no stomach to do. You people are deliberately encouraging people like Arundhati and likes to say openly things in the heart of India, statements, which will bring the wrath of even most secular and democratic country in world. How much weakness you can show. you are underestimating resolve of common indians and think that only those figures of 9-10% growth is sufficient to put nation in hibernation? You people are making country a laughing stock in the world community. You people must be made to pay for your follies.

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    The day is not far when Congressis will claim that Sri lanka has legitimate claim over tamil nadu and parts of Kerala.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    @Vijay

    “This will strengthen the secularism of India. If we can have separate states of Ladakh and Jammu, and Kashmir is reduced to 2500 sq km, things will be easily managable.”

    What nonsense are talking about! I live in Jammu and our family has lived in this State for generations and Vijay we Muslims are majority in the State. You vijay don’t dicide our future but we dicide our future, understand that.

    I don’t think any of you guys in this forum know what is going on in Jammu & Kashmir. Death and destruction by your terrorist army everyday. Every city, town & village is pelting stones on the terrorist army. I will post a video where you will see me and my brothers and sisters holding Pakistani flags.

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    You muslims have no right to decide fate of Non-muslims in the state of J&K.

    You can shove up pakistani flag up yours..we don’t care.

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Mumtaz Mir,
    You daughter of forcibly converted HINDU, you have no right to speak on kashmir. Kashmir belongs to the original inhabitants Kashmir Pandits..Go to your pakistan and blow eachother up.

    [Reply]

    Mumtaz Mir Reply:

    Majority is Authority, you can get lost

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Majority is Tattoo of pakistan and decendents of arabs-mongol-turks..so get lost you DOP (daughter of Pakistani)..

    Hindus-Sikhs are masters of your fate..get used to it.

    Kushagra Reply:

    If majority is the authority, then the majority of Indians feel J&K is an integral part of India. Going by your arguement, J&K ’s separatists are a negligible minority comparted to rest of India, so why don’t they accept majority’s mandate?

  • http://- Rajeev

    I think Manish Tiwari should be barred from all debates as he continuosly dfies anchor, goes into monologue (propaganda) with smirk (clearly indicating that he is creating mischief rather than serious arguement). He is ill-mannered and definitely gives a very negative image of congress as a party. When he talks, I remember Amitabh’s dialogue from DON (replace Chaku with Jubaan)..
    BJP to manish Tiwari – ‘Ye jaban andar rakh lo, kal subah tumahare boss ke toast par makkhan lagane ke kaam ayega’.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    Rajeev

    Come to Kashmir we will show what we are shoving and what I will shove…..Your sorry A– can’t even fly your flag in our State.

    It is our State and no minority can dictate to us what course we should take, understand that Rajeev.

    Majority is Authority

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Here is Mumtaz Mir and her friends singing Pakistani national anthem-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wBqZL7z8A

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    No, You are decendents of Arabs, Turks, Mongol, Tight assed greeks etc..so you have no claim over kashmir. Only hindu and sikhs are original kashmiris…

    Pl. shove pakistani flag-pole up yours (if there is space) and get lost.

    Hindus-Sikhs will decide your fate..

    [Reply]

    Paritosh Reply:

    @ Mumtaz Mir

    we are enough powerful so as to f*ck your entire Kashmiri Muslim population and kick your Islamo arse to Pakistan. you cockroaches can be easily wiped off through a nice genocide.

    i wish this soon happens.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    @Paritosh

    Presently we are ramming big poles up your forces everyday…you can bark all you want behind the computer.

    None of you will ever be able to come to Kashmir

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    We will walk into kashmir with our boots on your chest..

    [Reply]

    B.V.SHENOY Reply:

    For all your (mostly empty) bravado, you Pakis dare not touch our forces. You will get more than your due if even one soldier is hurt/killed. Remember this for your own good.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @Mumtaz Mir,

    Please brother dont lose your cool. But go over the facts.

    a) Ladakh and Jammu have nothing to do with killing innocents, Islamic terror and wanting to be the pet dogs of Pakistan. Why should they sufffer?

    b) After the valley is separated, let Jammu and Ladakh reach their natural potential. The valley people can be given more autonomy under the Indian constitution. I am sure that once they see Jammu and Ladkah racing ahead in life like the rest of the Indian states, they too will love the idea of India.

    c) A sizeable portion of the Hindus have been driven away form the valley. While the Sikhsn have been asked to convert. Dont they have a voicve also?

    d) Most Kashmiri Muslims are Shias. And Shias are being cut up in Pakistan. SO please think twice before you dream of Pakistan

    e) Pakistan has already integrated Muzzafarabad and Gilgit as separate states and changed the demographic composition in favour of Pakistan. For Kashmiris who have been there, POK is a backward area. So why don’t you see the facts?

    I wish you well. I hope you coolly understand the jist of my arguments….

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @Mumtaz Mir,

    Please brother dont lose your cool. But go over the facts.

    a) Ladakh and Jammu have nothing to do with killing innocents, Islamic terror and wanting to be the pet dogs of Pakistan. Why should they sufffer?

    b) After the valley is separated, let Jammu and Ladakh reach their natural potential. The valley people can be given more autonomy under the Indian constitution. I am sure that once they see Jammu and Ladkah racing ahead in life like the rest of the Indian states, they too will love the idea of India.

    c) A sizeable portion of the Hindus have been driven away form the valley. While the Sikhsn have been asked to convert. Dont they have a voice also?

    d) Most Kashmiri Muslims are Shias. And Shias are being cut up in Pakistan. SO please think twice before you dream of Pakistan

    e) Pakistan has already integrated Muzzafarabad and Gilgit as separate states and changed the demographic composition in favour of Pakistan. For Kashmiris who have been there, POK is a backward area. So why don’t you see the facts?

    I wish you well. I hope you coolly understand the jist of my arguments….

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Mumtaz Mir, if you look into the mirror you will see a certain Azhar Hussain holding the Pakistan flag but secretly wearing an underwear with the American flag and laughing… As a Shia his relatives are being cut up like goats, chicken and fish in Pakistan but he adopts different names wanting to be Indian…

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    @Vijay you will never be able to understand where we stand right now. It is totally a local uprising and we will inshallah prevail. We have lost too many of our brothers and sister to stay with you guys.

    As far as Azad Kashmir goes, I have family members living there and they are older members and safe there. They are happy there among their own, and we young guys going to stay here till our state is free from your subjugation.

    It is sad you don’t get to see the truth to what is happening to my state, you understand State terrorism thats what is happening. You guys pretend to be democratic state but only for those who toe the line. The rest are just labeled Pakistani and anti-state. You are too afraid to face the truth.

    “I spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir who live under one of the most brutal military occupations in the world; for Kashmiri Pandits who live out the tragedy of having been driven out of their homeland; for Dalit soldiers killed in Kashmir whose graves I visited on garbage heaps in their villages in Cuddalore; for the Indian poor who pay the price of this occupation in material ways and who are now learning to live in the terror of what is becoming a police state,” said Roy.

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Blah..Blah..Blah..

    [Reply]

    Vikram Reply:

    roy seems to be some illegitemate kid of some stupid porki

    [Reply]

  • http://- Rajeev

    Vijay,
    I think India should open J&K border for only outgoing pro-pakistani muslims like Mumtaz. During winters horders of such muslims should be pushed across LoC without food and water. I am pretty sure pakistani rangers/army will fire on these scumbags thus sending them to mohammad’s imagined heaven. It is time to tranport pakistani muslims to pakistan starting with Mumtaz and her family.

    [Reply]

  • http://- Rajeev

    Mumtaz,
    There is a saying about YOUR pakistan-
    Pakistan ka matlab kya..
    l*und pe chade humko kya…

    Ask Balochis..they chant this to get rid of pakistani occupation

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @ Mumtaz Mir and his real identity.

    Arundahti Roy wrote an autobiographical book which celebrated the heroine having incestuous sexual relations with her brother.

    We will be happy to send her to Kashmir and Pakistan. Hope you will appreciate the values she will spread there :)

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Vijay,
    I think India should start raising pitch on PoK and put pakistan and its lackeys Hurriyat on defensive.

    The muslims are know for their incestuous relationship..They call someone Bhaijaan for years and suddenly one day, they get married to that person and go to bed with Bhaijaan. No wonder Arundhati Suzanne Roy is role model for these DOP (daughters of pakistan).

    [Reply]

    Mumtaz Mir Reply:

    That is your values…your are a product of that

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @ Rajeev,

    In Arundhati’s novel it a real twin brother and sister “doing” it. Unfortunately nobody in India ever read the book. The very fact that it won the booker was a reason to celeberate…

    However the moral of the story is that she was always a publicity seeker and is still is. Then she wanted publicity by hammering Shekhar Kapoor for making Bandit Queen. ( She took up cudgels for Phoolan Devi,. shouting rape rape.. rape of innocent womenhood by Channel 4 and Shekhar Kapoor…)

    And now she is trying to get centre stage by speaking up against the Indian state…

    If she had the moral courage and care for women, has she ever spoken about the Taliban who routinely blow up girls schools and torture women. Or the Islamic Fundamantalists who kill and torture innocents as well as subjugate women.

    NO she never will.

    The scare of the Fatwa or the AK 47 bullet is too much…

    So she will speak against Indian democracy as it allows her freedom of speech…

    Ha ha ha ha ha :) :) :) what a joke of a woman :) :)

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    I have some seriuos questions about the entire exercise of ‘interlocutors’ on the dispute in the valley. I leave out Jammu and Leh-Ladhakh , as the people there would ove to merge with India.

    Interlocutors are useful in a situation where the parties to the dispute have communication problems or logistiocs problem but are both practical and sincere for an imicable solution.

    Interlocutors can be useful if there was some dipute with Kashmir political parties like National Conference or PDP , which do not demand secession from India.

    However, its a wastage of time, resources and counter productive to engage parties like the communal criminal Syed Ali Geelani or the paid puppets of Pak ISI or United Jihad council ( the umbrella organization of thus Pak state paid criminals ) in teh valley .
    The guy bye the assumed name Mir , is an axample of that.

    So why engage them when no ratiuonal middle ground is possible ?
    Can you find a rational middle ground with people whose idea of freedom is implementing the Sharia ?

    You have to fight evel and interlocutors cannot be of any help in such a situation.

    So the government of India has to protect the innocent in the valley, promote democratic representation and full freedoms but show no mercy to the Pak ISI and United Jihad Council paid criminals in the valley. They have to be vanquished.

    There is not any other way I am aware of.

    [Reply]

    Mumtaz Mir Reply:

    Vijay most of the time you blabbering with blindfolds on.

    Like I said Vijay you guys are nothing, you can blow hot air on the blog, come to Kashmir we will show what our Wadi has become,,,,you terrorist army is going around like cockroaches….

    [Reply]

    Kushagra Reply:

    Interesting, if such is a might of Kashmiri t-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-t-s, then its amusing why Kashmiri separatists repeatedly beg US to intervene in J&K or take the issue in international court, even after repeatedly rebutted by the US.

    While Kashmiris are a burden on Indian tax payer’s money, all your ranting proves that you are an ungrateful lot. Where does your shallow pride goes when everytime you are quick to jump on the dole offered by India. One wonders who is the cockroach at that time?

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Kushagra,
    Mumtaz is Azhar and Azhar is mumtaz…a pakistani

    B.V.SHENOY Reply:

    Kushagra,

    More interesting is why these Kashmiri separatist Muslims don’t begthe Chinese to intervene, particularlywhen China has already annexed part of the Indian state of J&K and is assisting the Pakistanis to “integrate” POK. Why is our buddy, Mumtaz so scared of the chinese?

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Your Wadi? Are you daydreaming? it is Indian soil. behave or get out.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Kashmir MOlehills, Vinodji’s topic can now be called Arundhati’s molehills!!

    She has hijacjed thte topic for the publicty she needed…

    What a joke on the COngress which is looking weaker than ever before…

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Vijay,
    What’s your take on this-
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09wBqZL7z8A

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    Pakistanis would of course deny that none of them is from their cuntry !!

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    Mumtaz keep telling them the truth, who could be more closer to the real situation than you. who has suffered more in the sham democracy than the Kashmiris. We in Pakistan are with you all the way. Keep the terrorist army busy

    [Reply]

    Vikram Reply:

    aho so you cowards are now paying kids to throw stones at an army. some disillusioned kashmiris should understand that the pakistanis are not interested in the well being of the kashmiris in anyway they are simply using you guys to throw some stones at a neighbour whom they dont have the balls to themselves confront. petenge saale har time peetenge

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGh4LdORNck

    Enjoy yourself Rajeev and Vijay

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir
  • http://- Rajeev

    Azhar is two in one… :)

    [Reply]

    Kushagra Reply:

    You are right, the language and tone sounds very familier.

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    First it was Azhar is Arun
    Now Azhar is Mumtaz Mir

    Kushagra you sound like Rajiv; Rajiv sounds like Rajeev and Paritosh sounds like an A–

    I am also ISI….talk about paranoid bunch of morons.

    And Mumtaz Mir Sahib, continue the good work. Your struggle will bear fruit and all those who gave their utimate sacrifice will not go to waste.

    And Arun where are you? We need you here to speak out the truth about India regardless how much bitter it tastes to your fellow countrymen.

    [Reply]

    Vikram Reply:

    go to hell

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    :D :D Lipstick on a pig will not make Azhar a beauty queen :D :D

    While you were wasting your time here Azhar, 97 people shot each other in Karachi last week.

    And American drones killed another 34 at the invitation of the Pakistani rulers and the ISI who shouted “kill us kill the youth… but give dollars in kickbacks…”

    What a joke of a cuntry !! :D :D :D

    H aha ha ha ha :D :D

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    looks like loss of 1/2 the country in 1971 and meek surrender of 90,000 plus has disturbed the mind of some poor jihadis.

    Well, there is still some time to save the other 1/2 of Jinnah’s moth eaten Pakistan.
    So spend your time trying to save what you have.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    Watch the videos, you can’t believe so many people out in the streets of my beautiful State. Every where you go, one see’s this, whether you like it or not we will and are stoning your terrorist army in my homeland.

    [Reply]

    Kushagra Reply:

    The stoning may please you, as you have nothing else to amuse yourself, but it is not going to ensure peace, neither can it win freedom. Just like you believe India can’t force the issue to you, for a second think even you can’t force the issue on India. The only way to address the issue is through talks. Give up violence and India will walk an extra mile to accomodate your demands.

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    Indian Flag is flying high in Sri Nagar.
    It was flying 50 years ago.
    Its flying today. Will fly for ever.
    The Pakis jihadis can take there Pakis flag to Sharia Pakistan.
    In fact India should demand that Pakistan fully implement Sharia in Pakistan.
    I extend my unconditional support for implementation of Sharia in Pakistan.
    Jinnah and Talebanis are right.

    The jihadis are like dirty dogs that bark at the Indian elephant. Let them bark. Who cares ??

    Regarding the other guy with the crooked green mirror, if posting videous and u-tubes and barking at forums made a country great then Pakistan would be the greatest country on earth instead of the most criminal thug nation on earth which is regularly bombed by jihadis from inside and drones from outside.

    Well when your ancestors are Saudis and Chinese then the child will be like a Pakistani. I dont blame Pakistanis.

    Anyway, there were no medals for posting u-tube links on forums, either at Commonwealth games or any other.

    [Reply]

  • Vijay Kumar

    ———————– :D :D :D — LIPSTICK ON A PIG— :) :) :) —————————-

    You cannot apply lipstick on a pig and make it look lilke a gazelle or a beauty queen !!

    Azhar Hussain from Pakistan (now hiding in USA as Shias get cut up like goat fish and chicken in Pakistan) is trying diferent shades of lipstick by first becomeing Arun Khrishhnamurty and then by trying to become Mumtaz Mir. I can understand his psychology. He is ashamed to reveal his identity as Pakistanis get bashed up in the USA and often pretend to be Indians…

    What a joke… What a loser from a cuntry of losers !!!

    :D :D Ha ahahah HA A :) :)

    [Reply]

  • (Dr.) B.N.Anand

    Dear Vindo Sharma ji

    I enjoyed reading your latest blog, especially when you sounded quite impartial while referring to the BJP and having a positive opinion about the new BJP spokeswoman. She indeed is a new face of the party and is quite an erudite in expressing the viewpoint of her party and has proved quite capable of facing the heat comfortably in the male dominated panelists at any tv talk show.
    Yes, no body has any problem with the appointment of the team of interlocutors. The leader of the team Mr. Padgaonkar is as much a distinguished journalist as you are. But it seems that bringing in Pakistsn’s role in the Jand K problem was rather premature especially when the brief would have been to assess the views and complaints of the common man and to interact with the people at grass root level. Even the Parliamentary delegation that had visited Jand K earlier had not mentioned the role of Pakistan in the dispute. Let the issue of any role of Pakistan in Jand K issue be left to be handled by the foreign ministry. It seems that Mr. Padgaonkar deliberately brought in Pakistan as a bait to the separatist leaders so that they can also be brought in the ambit of discussion. . Well, let the team do their job. But the situation indeed gets complicated when Arundhati Roy has also started speaking the language of separatists and going to the extent of saying that Indian colonialism has replaced imperialism in terms of Jand K and the Maoists movement. She would write fiction in her literary pursuits but politics in not a game of fiction. There is no denying that both these movements are not peaceful struggles and are in fact fighting the Indian army tooth and nail.. It looks the country has become a sort of toy in the hands of a section of elite society while thousands of soldiers have sacrificed their lives in Jand K so that the country stays as one unit.

    There is another dimension to the Jand K issue. While the people are demanding “Azadi” in vague terms, Mr. Geelani is only interested in the accession of the state to Pakistan and has been openly advocating and fighting for this cause. That surely brings out contradictions in the movement of separatists

    . All the more, I am not sure what could be the way out when the Indian Parliament has already passed a unanimous resolution regarding the status of Jand K from a national point of view. I only wish the people of valley will sooner or later understand the futility of their movement and try to look out for some respectable way out which would only benefit them and their future in the long run.
    Regards
    BNA

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Arundhati is using the Kashmir platform to get publicity during Obama’s visit. If you remember 50 Sikhs were brutally murdered by terrorists during Clinton’s visit and Arundhati’s mentor, Pankaj Mishra had then tried portray this as act of violence by the Indian security forces. This has time and again been proved to be a damn lie. In fact even Headley confesses that it was done by the Let. But… In a nation full of styagrahis, we have given too much moral halo to a few jhootagrahis :)

    For these publicity seekers like Arundhati, nothing is enough. I think we should stop getting used by her in her quest for worldwide attention.

    However the Indian state should take here head on and somehow tempt her to go to the Swat valley to convey her ideas, among similar minded people . That would take care of her for ever

    [Reply]

    Paritosh Reply:

    @Vijay Kumar

    Arundhati Roy is a publicity wh*re.

    she will even strip naked before Rashtrapati Bhavan and dance.

    the media only needs more masala for its TRPs and so they highlight such losers more than needed.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.rediff.com Paritosh

    Mumtaz Mir

    if you think that you guys are so f*cking powerful , why is it so that your arse is getting banged by our forces since ‘90.

    you can come before me in person and i can do the same to you. get a taste of a real Indian and you will wish for Jahannum ( hell ) , rather than Azadi.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.indiaandbharat.blogspot.com Shah Alam Khan

    @ Vijay Kumar:
    Dear Vijay ji,
    Amongst many who visit Vinod Sharma’s blog, you were one of the most vocal and definitely the one with enough droll. I feel pained when I see your remarks in this thread (vis a vis Arundhati Roy and her novel)….honestly I mean it! I would not have cared if Rajiv, Paritosh or Azhar would have said what found way through your pen (or should we say the keyboard!). To put things into perspective, I am not contesting the remarks made by Ms. Arundhati Roy regarding Azadi in Kashmir. We all feel strongly for Indian sovereignty and hope that it doesn’t come at the cost of blood and sweat of people who we claim to be our own lineage….I know Kashmiris can argue on the flip side. Fair enough.
    What isn’t fair is to pass categorical remarks about people who one way or the other have hurt your sentiments. First things first, God of Small Things is one of the best pieces of literature I have come across in contemporary world. The book does not depict incest as you so carelessly and repeatedly write on this blog. My friend, I have read the book thrice (in different stages of my life) and I have never come across any line or word which indicates incest. Even the so called love scene (to which you refer) is not between the twins (Rahel & Estha). It is the most beautiful description of sexual encounter between two main characters of the novel, Amu and the low caste Velutha (And yes the said scene description was found “not obscene” even by the Kerala High Court in the late 1990s). If anything, it is a book against caste system, against class system, against political bankruptcy. In fact one of the best summarizations of this book was done by a Yugoslavian man caught amidst the civil war in Serbia. He said, whenever we were losing hope, I read the book…….and that is the essence of this book as far as I could perceive. Its a book of hope. The book was so beautifully written that only after a few days of it being sent to Harper and Collins by Pankaj Mishra, the Publisher flew into Kerala to sign Ms Roy for the copyrights….imagine a Gora doing this to an Indian author! (I realised the enormity of this deed after I had lived in London and seen how biased and vain most English are towards their literature & heritage)
    I also see that a large number of bloggers have tried to tear Arundhati Roy apart based on charges of being morally corrupt….well what can I say. We all know that when deeds and words fall short in criticizing a woman, the easiest way is to label her a “loose character”. Unfortunately, as a civilization we are used to this practice from times immemorial.
    Finally you are wrong in mentioning that she hasn’t written any novel after God of Small Things. Well, she hasn’t written any fiction but some of the best nonfiction in India has been written by her. Listening to Grasshoppers, The Ordinary Person’s Guide to the Empire, The Shape of the Beast, The Algebra of Infinite Justice (Sahitya Academy Award Winner), Power Politics, War with No Ends, The Cost of Living……and the list goes on.
    You can argue that we do not buy her Azadi call but she certainly is one of the tallest authors India can pride itself in. No wonder that Noam Chomsky (who supposedly is the most referred/quoted living author on the planet) refers to her work on a regular basis. Thinking laterally and going against government stream of thinking is surely not sedition and we should give due credit to those who voice their dissent.
    I hope this clears some confusion which was generated in the heat of the moment and I also wish that we stick to norms of decency when it comes to arguing on sensitive issues…..after all I thought Vinod ji has treasured you with the responsibility of maintaining decorum on this house.
    Truly,
    Dr. Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi
    Blog: http://www.indiaandbharat.blogspot.com

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Thank you Dr Alam,

    For ascribing to me more “droll ” than I possibly possess!

    let me also assure you that I do remain a “mostly” decent person,but when it comes to the life and liberty of this country, well the dog in me comes out… :)

    Look it is my right to fight back as an Indian when all possible lies are used by another Indian who uses the freedom our land gives to her and yet she wants to destroy this very country for personal publicity and fame. And in my opinion she uses her femininity to twist facts, tell lies and get away with what would have landed many other into jail.

    Don’t believe me? Well would the world and media given her so much importance had she been 30 kilos heavier?

    Anyway let me post a few facts here and you let me know whether Arundhati is as “pure” as her votaries make her out to be.

    a) She never cleared Architecture, so why did her publishers try to pitch her as a creative person by saying that she is an architect? Doc Sahab there is a vast difference between a doctor in AIIMS and a doctor who fails four times and is kicked out of college

    b) Then why was the lie of being a aerobics teacher floated. Was it not a marketing gimmick to fire the imagination of all the uncles in the literary world in the backward era of the ninties.

    c) Earlier to this, Arundhati had tried to topple Shekhar Kapur after he had got the budget for “the bandit queen” from Channel 4 and she had failed. Then she had worn on the garb of a social reformer for women. A purely jealous fomulation was twisted to a platform of a lonely plaintive woman

    d) The God of small things was sold of as a book with an incestpus relation between Estha and Rahael in the West. You can type out God of small things and incest in google and get 3,75000 results. I read the book in the 90’s and found it imminently forgettable.

    If it was not about incest, why don’t the publishers have the balls to stand up and say no! Of course they won’t. In the end it is all about money… and fame.

    However I would be the last person to label her as corrupt. It is her life and her choice to lead it the way she wants. I only get hurt if it hurts my country

    e) Her mentor Pankaj Mishra had rushed to Kashmir after the LeT had butchered 50 innocent Sikhs. Even David Headley confesses that the LeT carried it out. But Pankaj Mishra, like A R Antulay, needed publicity. He insulted India, the Indian policeman but sold some books in the West.

    And that is Arundhati’s game today.

    Obama is around the corner. The centre is focusing on Kashmir. Why not hijack the issue for personal publicity? A lonely plaintive frail woman crying against a powerful state will make headlines all over the world.

    But let us not cry in front of this manipulative aunty, who needs publicity as a fuel for survival  

    Dr Alam, my reply is already too long… let me sign of now. Waiting for your response….

    [Reply]

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Dear Vijay ji,
    Thanks for the response. To begin, your smiley faces are droll enough in you……keep up the smile! I respect your sentiments regarding Indian sovereignty and unity but I think it is a bit too pre mature to jump the gun on statements like the ones issued by Ms Roy. I would say control the hounds within!! Buddha had said that holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
    Coming back to Arundhati Roy, let me answer you point wise:
    1. You correctly said that you would not comment on her morality but on the other hand you say that she uses her “feminity” to twist facts. You asked that would the world and media have given her this importance had she been 30 kgs heavier? For me these are sexist statements and it appears that they are being used because she is the weaker sex. It’s your take but there could have been a better counter argument.
    2. You contest that she lies. Vijay ji I don’t think that telling the story from another angle is lying (exclude her Kashmir comments from this statement as I have already mentioned that I will not contest these). In a country which has a distinctive class and caste divide, she favours the other group. Telling their story (which of course sounds gory) is not lying. She is uncomfortable to us because in her version we, the middle class (pardon me if you belong to a separate strata of Indian class system) appear as villains. With hands across our chests think and read her versions…… there is definitely a strand of truth in them. I think every day why my daughter goes to an elite Delhi school while the sweeper next door cannot even afford education for his? She had once written : I am not here to tell stories that people want to hear. I’m not entering some popularity contest.
    3. You are cross with her publishers regarding Architecture course. Well then it’s her publishers you should be angry with not her. And yes she does not claim to be a Le Corbusier or an Antonio Gaudi. She is not an architect. She is a writer and I think she does the latter job much better than many others. You are right there is a vast difference between a doctor at AIIMS and one who has failed four times and kicked out. But this by no stretch of imagination means that the one who has failed four times can be less creative in other fields than medicine. Honestly such failures would excel when in a creative field. I know at least three such failures turned genius.
    4. I agree with you that the aerobics teacher rumour would be a gimmick to market. But again can we blame her for this? Does marketing that way take away the fact that she definitely writes well? She was noticed because her book sold six million copies Vijay ji….not because she was an aerobics teacher. Why do we shy off in blaming the consumerist culture? Probably because we are part of the game.
    5. You write she tried to topple Shekhar Kapur from Channel 4. Honestly I am not aware on this issue. But knowing her from whatever I have read, she is against the marketing of Phoolan Devi. She says this clearly in all her interviews. Even when I saw the Bandit Queen, it appeared that there was a scandalous element which even Phoolan Devi has condemned in her autobiography.
    6. You are again wrong. God of Small Things does not have a hint of incest. Don’t go on Google results. Please read the book and see for yourself. I googled “Shah Alam Khan is an Idiot” and got 512,000 results. I then googled “Shah Alam Khan is a genius” and (sadly:( ) got 9000 results. I believe in reading. I consider Salman Rushdie to be a good author because of the sheer power of his writings….my opinions are not based on fatwa spitting imams. If relevance of literature was decided through search engines, the world would have been a defunct place!
    7. Finally I don’t think that all this has anything to do with Obama. The knowledge of Obama’s visit was available in the public domain only in early October. I received an email regarding the said seminar on Kashmir way back in September. Arundhati Roy’s first article on Kashmir appeared about six years back. She is not the kind who would crave for publicity. Remember her book (God of Small) has been the most sought after by Hollywood producers for a celluloid conversion. If rumours are to be believed she has at one time refused a sum of 5 Million dollars for selling the copyrights. She says, “selling six million copies means the book has six million different versions. It would be a pity for allowing a single director to extinguish these versions.” Would you accept that reply from a publicity monger Vijay ji?
    I know this reply is long but I hope that I have tried to give you a better picture.
    Truly,
    Dr. Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    [Reply]

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    @ Dr Alam,

    My reply got posted in the next page.

    Sorry for that !

  • G. Mustafa

    “Kashmir is internationalized when Islamabad takes it up in the United Nations”.

    What was wrong when India took it up to UN?
    Either Pakistan takes it up or India takes it up. It’s the same. Since India realized its stupidity to internationalize it so lets play stupid game of hide and seek and make it a bilateral issue. Or shall i say make it an internal issue? These ‘makes’ or bits do not hide reality. Had that been an internal problem would that have made to international arena or Shimla Agreement? Never!! When was the last time you have someone changing stances of making internal as international or vice versa.

    India has no intention to talk to anyone regarding this. So why to glamourize? just enjoy whats going on.

    – A freedom to carry a gun and ask for independent freedom – is the guy moron or author painting it with a different brush. Maqbool should see that there is no insurgency running in Pak Kashmir. If he wants his share, should go back to call amnesty and raise voice in Indian Kashmir. There he would keep calling and would die with no response. End of show.

    What Omer says or Arundhati says its ****. I need to take time off to laugh.

    Another joke coming your way:
    http://public.dawn.com/2010/10/24/pakistans-nukes-safe-says-indian-army-chief.html

    [Reply]

  • http://- Rajeev

    I think all this Hulla-Gulla in valley and support to it by so-called INDIAN intellectual is pre-planned antic to somehow grab Obama’s attention and make him utter something about Kashmir contrary to Indian position.
    You must have seen that pakistan has also howling asking US to intervene in Kashmir and almost ayt the same time Hurriyat is asking for same. After watching Obama forcing Israelis to negotiate with peaceful palestinians, muslims of the valley and their masters across the border have been emboldened to drag US and Obama into Kashmir. I have spoken to muslims and found that majority of them support Obama and feel that he is more sympathetic to their PLIGHT. They see Obama stint in white house as great opportunity to get all the disputes settled as per the wishes of muslims.
    The Indian govt and the people should be patient, let Kashmiris protest as much as they want, come down heavily on ISI-puppets Hurriyat and wait for Obama term to get over.

    [Reply]

  • http://- Rajeev

    The sincerity of Arundhati/Navalakha is quite evident from the fact that they have not challenged pakistan rule over PoK and Chinese rule over Aksai Chin. They know that India is the only country whom they can bully with these antics. Why has Arundhati/Navalakha not said that “Kashmir needs freedom from Pakistan/China”..

    Why has media not grilled Arundhati on PoK and CoK? Media should ask if Arundhati wishes to visit PoK/CoK and make similar kind of utterances.

    I feel sad for India as it is becoming banana republic where everyone is free to question integrity of the nation at will and get away with it. When I look at UPA handling of India, I feel we may end up as fractured USSR under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi/Rahul Gandhi (MMSingh is a puppet and has no role in it).
    India is “Salma phans gayi Gundo mein” situtaion right now.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Let’s be very clear that Arundhati’s is a cry for personal publicity. Some time back she made fun of 26/11 killings saying that they were not important.

    She has not time for the killings by terrorists or the terror of the Taliban as condemning all that can result in a fatwa…

    Her mentor Pankaj Mishra had rushed to Kashmir after the LeT had butchered 50 innocent Sikhs, during Clinton’s visit. Even David Headley confesses that the LeT carried it out. But Pankaj Mishra, like A R Antulay, needed publicity. He insulted India, the Indian policeman but sold some books in the West.

    And that is Arundhati’s game today.

    Obama is around the corner. The centre is focusing on Kashmir. Why not hijack the issue for personal publicity? A lonely plaintive frail woman crying against a powerful state will make headlines all over the world.

    But let us not cry in front of this manipulative aunty, who needs publicity as a fuel for survival 

    [Reply]

  • Mritunjay Sharma

    Dear Vinod Ji,

    I saw your debate last night on Timesnow and I am afraid I din’t like it when you complained to Arnab saying that he is giving far more time to Sheshadri, Jethmalani and Swapan and not naming Manish Tiwary who was the one who took the most time (by shouting unnecessarily). I hope you need to a bit more impartial than that.

    Thanks

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    Lets not talk about A Roy .

    She is not elected, perhaps will fail to win a single assembly segment in India and is just a self seeking publicty seeker who also lies profusely.

    She is fit to be in Sharia-Pakistan

    Back to serious subject.

    Are interlocutors of any use when the other party is ISI or United Jihad Council ( the umbrella organizations of Jihadis wroring from the thug state ) ?

    Unless that question is answered all this talk of interlocutors is a wastage of time and effort and India should just concentrate on ‘dealing’ the Jihadis.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Rajiv,

    There are two reasons why the interlocutors are there.

    a) Congress and the MMS feel that once all the separatists vent out their anger through dialogue, some positive suggestions could come out. Maybe talks would wear them out.

    Unfortunately this is a wrong policy. The other side is living in a dream world that Azaadi will solve all their problems. Let them first be reduced to 2500 sq km after trifurcation. Azaadi and all such talk would become meaningless

    b) Uncle Obama is around. So why not have a cosmetic or real exercise that we are even willing to talk to Pakistani sponsred terrorists.

    If these talks result in freeing of Pakistani killers, then this would really be sad. Hope it does not demoralise the army

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    @Vijay,
    Its not just Jammu, Leh and Ladhakh demanding breakup of J&K.

    Gujjars and Bakerwals ( Kashmiris involved in raising sheep in the mountains ) are demaning seperate region for themselves – seperate from the Jihadis. They claim they make up 20% of the population.

    Then there is demand of Panun Kashmir for Hindu Kashmiris.

    so I think 5-point division of Indian J&K should be considered.

    If that be so, the only place left for jihadis will be in Muzaffarabad or Islamabad.

    Here is news report from Hindu about Gujjar/Bakerwal leadershipo meeting the centre appointed interlocutor.
    ——————————————————————————–
    Gujjars and Bakerwals demand seperate region in J&K
    ———————————————————————————
    http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article847259.ece

    Demanding a separate Pir Panchal region or area and a Tribal Hill Council in Jammu and Kashmir, the Gujjars and Bakerwals, both Scheduled Tribe communities in the State, on Sunday urged for strong recommendations from the three-member team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir — in their report to be submitted to Prime Minister of India — for an irreversible provision along with constitutional guarantees to reserved categories while deciding the Kashmir issue.

    In a meeting with eminent journalist Dileep Padgaonkar, head of the interlocutor team, and others, members of the Gujjar and Bakerwal communities pressed for the grant of social, cultural, economic and political empowerment to their members, who reside in far-flung and difficult areas of the State.

    The delegation, led by Javaid Rahi, secretary of the Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation, met the team of interlocutors at the Government Guest House here.

    The delegation said that the Gujjar and Bakerwal communities being suppressed deserved special attention from the State and the Union Government. Mr. Rahi claimed that though Gujjars constituted 20 per cent of the State’s population, their presence in State affairs was negligible.

    The delegation told the team that since the community possessed a different identity, ideology and culture, the Gujjars were demanding a separate area/region and a tribal council within Jammu and Kashmir so that their tribal uniqueness could be protected and preserved. They also spoke about other problems that they faced in the State.

    A six-page memorandum was submitted to the team of interlocutors seeking its help — through special recommendations — in the implementation and strengthening of the community’s Schedule Tribe status in Jammu and Kashmir by giving them the much awaited ‘political reservation.’

    Other demands were for recommendation to relevant quarters and for the provision of shelters and land to nomadic Gujjars, who have been landless and houseless and living below the poverty line in Jammu and Kashmir since 1947.

    The delegation also called for the inclusion of the Gojri language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

    Special census

    The community demanded that the Centre conduct a special census of lakhs of nomadic and shelter-less Gujjars and Bakerwals of Jammu and Kashmir, who are currently under seasonal migration to the upper reaches of the Northwestern Himalayas.

    [Reply]

  • Kushagra

    Arundhati Roy is a woman of contradictions.

    a) On one hand she is all for freedom of expression and on the other hand she did all in her limited powers to hijack making of Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen. Selective rules for freedom of expression huh?

    b) She shares the same podium with Geelanis and rest of the Kashmiri T-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-t-s, lend them her support and say she is seeking justice for Kashmiri Pandits who were driven out of the Kashmir. How empathatic! Not only laughable but eternly sad that it didn’t strike her or perhaps she chose to ignore the fact its the very same people who she is supporting that have raped, murdered thousands of Kashmiri Pandits and forced them to flee Kashmir. Or perhaps she meant that it was Indian Army who raped and murdered Kashmiri Pandits and drove them out.

    c) In that seminar each and every group had one agenda – break and rip India apart. There were Kashmiries Maoist, Khalistanistanies and several other separatist groups. So her lending support to all means its alright if India is shredded to pieces but any move to dismantle such developments is oppression!

    d) Having not being an architect doesn’t mean she could not be a good author. However, to show an education qualification which you obviously have not is gross misrepresentation, which is not surprising as thats what one comes across from all her antics.

    [Reply]

  • Ankit

    Now the interlocutors are talking about doing something in Kashmir “outside the constitution’!! Thousands of soldiers died to preserve the integrity of our country, India did not let Jammu and Kashmir slip away when it was at its weakest and under tremendous assault from Pakistan (in early 1990s) Will a bunch of liberal losers walk all over the dead bodies of the patriots who made ultimate sacrifice for the country and surrender to the fanatics ?

    God, please save our country from these modern day Mir Jafars!

    [Reply]

    Rajeev Reply:

    Sonia Gandhi is Indian Gorbachev. If we don’t stop Congress, India will be balkanised in next 5 years.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    From the way you people are discussing Kashmir, it shows most of you have no idea where this freedom struggle has reached. I have not slept all night, guarding our area against the terrorist army. I have to sleep for couple of hours and then take care of some important business.

    jevay Jevay Pakistan
    Kashmir baney Ga Pakistan ka Inshallah

    Another day hopefully I will find some good targets

    [Reply]

    Legionnaire Reply:

    Watchman free of charge :-)

    [Reply]

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    Jeevay jeevay BALUCHISTAN :D

    Pakistan banega MURDISTAN :) :D :D

    Azhar Banega Mumtaz MIr,

    Jayenge dono Kabristan :D :D

    DAWN NEWS : LATEST breaking news :)

    ———————– — LIPSTICK ON A PIG— —————————-

    You cannot apply lipstick on a pig and make it look lilke a gazelle or a beauty queen !!

    Azhar Hussain from Pakistan (now hiding in USA as Shias get cut up like goat fish and chicken in Pakistan) is trying diferent shades of lipstick by first becomeing Arun Khrishhnamurty and then by trying to become Mumtaz Mir. I can understand his psychology. He is ashamed to reveal his identity as Pakistanis get bashed up in the USA and often pretend to be Indians…

    What a joke… What a loser from a cuntry of losers !!!

    :D :D :) Ha ahahah HA A

    [Reply]

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    @Rajiv,

    I read the article with interest. Just proves that there are many vices in Jammu, Ladkah and Kashmir which are not heard because of the noise created by the separatists and the media focus on them.

    I think

    a) We should get the print and Electronic media to amplify the voices of the Gujjars, the Bakarwals, the Jammuites and the Ladakhis. Not easy I know. Unfortunately the media is used to reporting scandal and sensation. It will never focus on the meek, the humble, the tortured and the unfortunate.

    Can I request shri Vinod Sharma to amplify such voices which do not talk about separatism but want a state which is separate from the current J&K and wants to enjoy the freedom and prosperity India offers.

    b) I still feel tri-furcation and not a five point division is the best alternative. Going five ways can result in more opposition to the whole venture. Even a two way division by separating the valley could be a good way to start.

    [Reply]

  • vijay Kumar

    @Dr Shah Alam Khan,

    I read your reply to my posting on Arundhati Roy with interest. And Doctor Sahab, I think we will have to agree to disagree with each other !

    Let me go through it point wise

    a) If it is not an incest book, why did she let her publishers market it that way. Why did she not say that the relations between the twins were “pure’ brother and sister. Some of the reviews in that time did keep talking about this incestuous relation. Being a strong vocal person she could have surely shouted her publishers and reviewers out.

    b) The story about architecture. I agree that a person can do better in a creative field even if he or she drops out of a professional course. My exasperation is at the means employed. The falsehood of saying that she was an architect when she was not. It was not just the publishers who said this. And again why did she not stand up and disclose the truth.

    c) I think you should dig out the controversy with Shekhar Kapur to understand that her fight for Phoolan Devi was based on her own script being rejected. Pure jealousy nothing more

    d) About moral corruption. I never insinuated that. She can live her life the way she wants as long as she does not try to destroy the fabric of the country.

    e) If she really was so much for human rights, why did she make fun of the dead in 26/11. You can read her article in the Guardian on that. Her stance was similar to that of Antualy—weakening the nation in the time of crises.

    However being a lover of psychology let me state my psychoanalysis of her actions. She comes from a dysfunctional family, her father having ditched the family when she was small. In her book she launches quite a diatribe against her missing father and periodically makes fun of him

    Now convert the situation to a national stage. In her mind India is her father. And she will go all out to downgrade and destroy this father.

    Is her voice really for the poor and the marginalized sections. Not in my opinion. She never speaks about the torture inflicted by the Taliban; the one sided killings of minorities in J&K; the fatwas on women etc etc. Maybe speaking about all that can result in a Salman Rushdie or Taslima Nasrin sort of situation.

    Anway unfortunately my reply is already too long! So I Sign off ! 

    PS: I visited your blogsite yesterday and enjoyed some of the articles.

    [Reply]

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Thanks Vijay ji,
    Yes, you are correct, we should disagree. We are on altogether different pages vis a vis Ms. Roy. Honestly I fail to see any reasoning in your psychological evaluation of her personality. I think she is a fine writer who highlights the problems of the underpriviledged. I admire her for her courage to speak her mind.
    But before I sign off, I would like to clarify the Guardian article (its called Monster in the Mirror). I would again contest and say that she did not insult the dead of 26/11. She argued the causes of why 26/11 happened and the fact that it was important to highlight that ordinary men and women killed at CST and not only those in luxurious hotels. And yes I can show you n number of articles in which she has condemned Taliban and the bigotry of islam. See her speech in Karachi (probably from 2009). She denounces the Talibanis right in the heart of Pakistan. Its available on You Tube.
    Vijay ji its a dangerous trend to muffle voices, how so ever unpleasant they may sound. If we keep doing this (for example Shiv Sena’s take on Mistry’s book), what difference will we have with theocratic countries banning Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen? I hope you will agree with me that we donot intend to go that way.
    Good to be in discourse with you.
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIIMS, New Delhi

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    @ Dr Shah Alam,

    Okay we agree to disagree!

    However I agree with you that writers voices should not be silenced.

    a) No silencing when it comes to disagreeing, provoking, attacking , insulting politicians or personalities. in case the charges by the author are wrong, strong libel laws can take care

    b) some silencing should be done in case in case the author insults a religion or a religious practice so that it does not cause a communal situation. However the writer is well within his/her rights to question religion, make fun of it everything. That is how social change occurs.

    c) No silencing in case the writer questions the actions of the state or country.

    But….

    d) Some silencing required in case the writer advocates the break up of the country. All societies do that. From US, UK to China. Let us not say that India is a special case.

    If I or you advocate sedition, won’t we be arrested? Why make writers so special…

    Anyway, it is luch time here. I am typing with one finger on my laptop and the other hand has a coffee cup. So i’d better sign off.

    [Reply]

    Rajiv Reply:

    @Shah Alam,

    A Roy is a crass liar.Period.

    Even after its proven that the Sopara incident of alleged rape was fabricated , ater the women had drowned, by the doctors under pressure from militants and separatist leaders, she continues to utter those same lies, wile the doctors who fabricated the evidense have accepted their guilt !

    Does she say a single word agains the criminal militants who have raped and killed tens of thousands ?
    Does she ever say a single word about extrimist Islam, Taleban and Sharia-inspired Jihadis ?

    No she doesn’t.

    She is just a self seeking liar.

    [Reply]

    Mahesh Reply:

    Dr, Khan,
    At the Outset please allow me to congratulate you on having defended the right of Ms. Roy for expressing her “dissenting opinion” . I can only guess your political positions are based on your opinions here and your posts at CounterCurrents blog as purely humanist ones. It does take courage to have a conviction in soverignity of country and at the same time defend those who have a dissenting opinion. Especially so when faced with Nationalistic jingoism.
    Having said this – I have couple of problems with Ms Roy’s stand.
    As a starting point – while Ms. Roy’s positions articulated anti-India sentiment among the Kashmiris, she appears to have missed out on the entire economic and political context.
    For instance – past couple of years there has been a steady shift towards Services economy in kashmir given the “stability period” it enjoyed for a couple of years post 2002 only to be truncated in reality and in expectations during past couple of months of unrest.
    Another good “template article” for economic-demographic analysis is provided by Praveen Swami in Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2010/08/30/stories/2010083050311000.htm).
    Ms. Roy’s discourse fails to address the underlying “economic frustration” – instead resorting to the “emotive populism” so well prevalent in the valley. Certainly lacking in position so well expected of a enlightened intellectual. Emotive populism can at best be a indicator of prevalent mood of the populace – beyond that the intellectuals need to analyse. Ms. Roy falls short here. Since somewhere in your earlier posts you referred the MIT linguist Noam Chomsky – do we realise the basic difference between Ms. Roy’s positions and Chomsky’s positions ? Ms Roy’s positions stop at highlighting the problems – Chomsky’s positions go beyond these articulating the expectations from “State” and guidelines for activists where the state fails (which is so often – and all over the world).
    This is not to criticise Ms. Roy on having taken a stand – this is a criticism against her taking a improperly argued stand.
    Having said this – I still respect her for at least having taken a stand , which has been sorely missing in our jingoistic political discourse. But then again, I wish she were Noam Chomsky – or at least Medha Patkar.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.
    p.s. for Sharmaji : About the Interlocutors – I feel it was immature for the Interlocutors to drag Pakistan. It is our mess – we screwed up in Kashmir. Kashmiris are saying precisely this. They don’t appear to be aligned with Pakistan at all. So where does Pakistan matter in all this ?

    [Reply]

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Dear Mahesh sahib,
    Thanks for a brilliant analysis. Also thanks for reading me on Counter-currents….I thought no one actually reads “that ultra left” website. Your criticism of Ms Roy is well taken. I understand your basic grudge about her stand on Kashmir. I don’t know if you have gone through her articles on Kashmir? Unfortunately most of her critics talk of the five minute speeches she gives at seminars like the one in Delhi and that clouds the perception of how and what she writes. As you rightly say, the commotion of rhetoric and jingoism takes the toll. In fact she does talk of the socio economic problems which infect the valley. In most of her essays on Kashmir or Sardar Sarovar dam or Maoists of Dhantewada, there is hardly any social, ecological, economic or political argument which is missing. You are right she does have a knack to exploit emotive populism but then that’s her style. It is this emotive expression which makes Arundhati Roy an Arundhati Roy. Surely we don’t accept her to change just because she writes with a particular style which doesn’t suit the status quo of the present day socio-political order.
    Regarding your comments on Chomsky, I did not compare her to Chomsky. What I commented was that even Chomsky the most quoted living author on the planet, refers to her work in his essays. Surely an order worth praise for an Indian author. But I would beg to differ with you….. I am happy that Arundhati Roy is not Noam Chomsky, and she shouldn’t try to be one. Arundhati Roy’s instructiveness and objectivity makes her much more interesting than Chomsky. On a flip note, we all like to label her as an anarchist, a terminology used for Chomsky in the 1960s before being labelled a “political thinker” and a “cognitive scientist” of the present era. May be your wish seems to be coming true…..maybe we have a Chomsky in the making…..till then lets give her space to speak and write.
    Great to be in touch with someone who seems to communicate on the same wavelength.
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    Vinay Reply:

    @Mahesh and Dr.Khan,

    Would like to re-iterate. Being a human right activist in open countries like US or India is much much easier than countries where civil rights are tightly controlled.
    An American objecting to pro-Jew policy of America can atmost be criticized. But criticizing anti-Jew policy in Hitler’s Germany would have been suicidal.
    Tasleema Nasrin has been living in exile for more than 15 years for favouring minorities. Here, government has decided not to register any case on Arundhati Roy and gives her security cover.

    I have partly read her articles of Maoists of Dhantewada (I stopped reading it in the middle, after the train incident). I felt her description was one sided (describing the Maousts as plane innocents, who are just misunderstood). Clarity can be got when she can write dispassionately; when she can equally criticize Gilani for not standing up for Kashmiri Pandit’s rights, while asking for Azadi. Freedom comes with responsibilities. Gilani does not want any responsibilities. That means he is not asking for freedom. He is just asking for license to govern. I mean to say, Roy was not sharing space with freedom fighters there, though she claims.

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Dr. Khan
    This has reference to your first response to Mr. Vijay
    I think you are mixing two different matters—one banning the book for the general public like done in the case of SATANIC VERSES and the other book by Tasleema Nasreen. The book banned at the behest of Shiv Sena is from the school curricula where it is quite dangerous to expose the sensitive minds of young school and college students to the crude language used in this book. Well, this book has not been banned for general public.
    While the freedom of expression is well guaranteed in our constitution but the constitution is silent about the hurt it may cause to the whole community by this freedom. Besides this, the writers and artistes are also bound by the norms of the society. Why they must consider themselves to be above the law and immune from the sensitivities of the society and thus feel free to write and sketch anything in the name of art and freedom of expression to create discontent and restlessness in one or the other society? This point begs your views.
    Regards
    BNA

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Agree with some of your points Dr Anand

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Thanks Anand Sahib,
    For you one ban may be a different from another….not for me. Ban is a ban. Banning books is not the answer to any problem. This is a very subtle way of saying, “shut up, we don’t want to listen to your views”. The answer to a book is a book which unfortunately the Bal Thackeray’s and Shahi Imams of this country are far ignorant to give. Remember all fascist societies of the world test waters by throttling the voices of the most liberal and diverse elements of the society- writers, authors, journalists and thinkers. I still remember the Brecht play (since you live in Germany?) in which a bureaucrat brings a thinker in chain, like a dog. He then shouts, “Think”, and the chained man starts thinking. He then shouts “Stop Thinking!”…….it is the most apt description of what can be the end result if we start banning books at schools, followed by bans at colleges, then ban in Universitites and finally in the society at large. Writers and artists are the essential members of a society, the intellectual back bone which makes a nation stand straight with pride. They define our thought process. I fail to understand how we differ from Taliban when we ourselves ban writers who we feel are not convenient for our survival. I do not understand the logic that when they ban its wrong, but when we do it is with a purpose to safe guard national interests? It’s pretty much the same logic which I had discussed with you earlier regarding faith and justice. We cannot condemn the barbaric laws of Saudi Arabia because that is faith for them just like the judgement in the Ayodhya case is faith for us. I mention this old analogy because the principle of its application is the same in both the situations. I hope I have made myself clear Anand sahib (and of course correct me if you do not reside in Germany)
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Dr. Khan
    Thanks a lot for your time in responding to my anxiety about the necessity to ban something for the students and something for the general public. Dont you agree that you will never like your children to go to pornography sites on the net even your children may insist on it as a matter of right under this freedom. You will surely act strong and would take steps so that these sites are not accessible. My point was to decide something which is to be allowed as a text book in a school or college and not about the ban of a book for the benefit of the general public. After all, the crude matter as narrated in the novel “Such a Long Journey” by Rohinton Mistry prescribed for 2nd year of English Literature syllabus may be something which the students may ask to be elaborated in a more detailed fashion in the class. Our teachers may not be able to explain it in as subtle way as it should be required in this case. Well, then if you do not mind that sort of education for your children in schools and colleges , you have to be equally liberal to allow them to indulge in any way they like but you may not like, simply because it is their basic right to pursue it.
    Let the children mature and grow. Then there is no need to restrict any thing for their matured mind.
    So, sir, I must say that the society has to see what is good and what is not good for the young students in schools and colleges and take appropriate steps. I shall not mix the freedom of expression granted to authors in the text books meant for students and the other one not meant for general public. In my opinion, these are two separate issues.
    Moreover, I will never accept the point that artistes and the writers are above the law and the normal norms of the society. I am sorry that I differ with you but this difference is limited only to make sure what is good to read for the students in schools and colleges and not what the public at large reads.
    Yes, I lived in Germany for a fairly long time as Guest and visiting Professor at Munchen University in Munich. But that project is over and now I am in India.
    Regards
    BNA

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Vijay
    Thanks for your understanding.
    Regards
    BNA

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Dear Dr. Anand Sahib,
    Thanks for the comments. I feel you are mixing emotions with logic and this Sir is never healthy. I have control and responsibility on my children. Not allowing them watch pornography is as much an issue as not allowing them late nights, not allowing them to drink colas, not allowing them to overlook their studies, not allowing them do all that I consider is wrong for them (importance here is on I)………its a matter of training of children by parents. And remember your kids will be trained according to your values not according to the values of a Mullah or a Shiv Sanik. This is entirely different from governing flow of information in a society. Society is not I; it is a WE. Societies are not made by children and equally governments/media and intellectuals donot need to parent their control. I am sure you will appreciate the difference between social norms and flow of free idea in the society.
    Have you read Mistry’s book? If yes do you think its worth the treatment which it got at the hands of idiots like Thackeray combined by a pressure succumbing government? I have read the book and have not found anything worth banning for college students of 2nd Year literature. Remember this piece of literature won many International awards when it was released in 1991. The problem is not Mistry or his book, problem is Bal Thackrey and now his newly crowned prince, the grandson who has carried on with the legacy of hate and bigotry.
    Anand Sahib authors/artists/writers/ are not above law but banning books is not the law. For god damn sake we have to come out of this illness. You agaiin avoided answering the crux of the debate: what difference do you see in a democratic government banning books (at what ever level) with those banned by theocratic states?
    Anand sahib bigots and tyrrants donot stop at one book or one individual. To keep their rhetoric going they keep targetting the next in line till the conversion of the system is complete. Remember Satanic Verses was first banned and subsequently Rushdies head was put to price. Do you entertain all this nonsense? I don’t and will never be a part of the banning brigade which now and then raises its ugly head in our country.
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Dr. Khan
    Thanks again for responding. May I at the outset clarify that I should not be misunderstood and am not directly or indirectly speaking either for Shiv Sena or for any other organisation while talking about the necessity to allow / disallow certain reading material for the children in schools and colleges. While you take responsibility, as you say, for your children at home and do not allow them certain activities ( which may be a matter of privilege for a more liberal parent), the society on the whole has the responsibility to see that education material may not consist of a stuff which may arouse their fantasies and may leave a negative imprint on the sensitive minds of children in schools and colleges.
    I read Rohinton Mistry’s novel ” Such a Long Journey” some years back and always wondered what is so great in this novel to be made a part of English literature syllabus by the Board of Studies of a university for the undergraduates. The language is indeed obscene and vulgar at some pages and the derogatory statement about the “Dabbawallas” of Mumbai was also not in good taste. Well it may be ok for the general public at large , but that stuff should not be apart of educational curricula. The novel is not banned like the ones of “Satanic Verses” or that Taslima Nasreen’ novel but has been just rightly dropped from the curricula. The public is free to read this particular novel which is freely available in the market. But the author ad the publishers have surely lost money for this step.
    So sir, I am surely arguing from a logical point of view and not being emotional at all. Hopefully, I have put my point clearly.
    Yes, I may become emotional when the artistes hurt the sentiments of different communities through their sketches and paintings under the garb of freedom of expression and creativity. That way, I am as against the liberty of Danish cartoonists for hurting the sentiments of a community as also against some of the paintings of MF Hussein for doing the same to another community. After all, these artistes also have a responsibility to the society at large.
    Sorry for having prolonged the debate on an issue which is not even part of the blog. In fact, Mr. Vinod Sharma may be even angry for shifting the track from the main subject of the blog.
    In any case it has been a pleasure to be involved in this discussion with you.
    Regards
    BNA

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Thank you Anand Sahib,
    To begin, no one probably thinks that you support as narrow minded an organisation as the Shiv Sena. Your points are well taken. Sir, you did not like the Long Journey, I thought it was a good novel. Both of us have our own arguments in favour. So who decides why should a particular curricula not be allowed to add or delete the book from their syllabus? Surely not organisations like the Shiv Sena? This is my broader argument. College/School/University syllabus is decided by a committee not by imbecile Shahi Imams and Bal Thackreys. If the book was added by a committee only that committee had the right to remove it from the system, not Shiv Sena (which directly or indirectly made the government take this decision under pressure).By supporting such bans we are helping people like Bal Thackreys and this Sir, is harmful for a vibrant democracy.
    My argument toes the same line for the Danish cartoonist and for MF Hussain sahib. They have their rights to do what they think is right……..if its not within the preview of law (not logic, not sentiments) they should be punished. If its legally correct leave them aside. If you don’t like what they draw or they paint or they write, then you have the right as an individual to ignore them. What you can’t do and should not do is to demand their heads, ban them from entering the country, burn their effigies and stone their houses. This is what use to happen in the sixteenth century to thinkers and scientists who said the world is round!
    I know its a complicated issue of rights versus duties, but I am very clear as to which side I am. I am sure that being the kind of person that Mr Vinod Sharma is, he surely will not be angry with us on discussing this which is not directly related to his blog. The whole debate reminds me of a couplet by Faiz Ahmed Fiaz (ironically a Pakistani poet!):

    Nisaar mein terii galiyon ke ae watan, ki jahaan
    chalii hai rasm ki koii na sar uthaa ke chale
    Jo koii chaahanewaalaa tawaaf ko nikale
    nazar churaa ke chale, jism-o-jaan bachaa ke chale

    Hope you get the broader piont of my argument. Good to be in discourse.
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    Vinay Reply:

    Dr Shah Alam,
    It is with regards to your opinion of artists having right to portray. Can’t I say even protesters have right to protest, as long as it is “civic” ? (Of course nobody should entertain thugs, the self declared moral police). But when if we are discontent with something (like a price hike), we should have right to protest.

    An artist whose art challenges the sentiment of a community can’t be compared to a scientist of sixteenth, for that matter of any century. Everyday Science continues to evolve by keep challenging what we think we know already. That is its need. Einstein who was the dominating scientist in early 20Th century, took long time to agree with Niel Bohr’s idea of Quantum Physics. (Interesting quotes during their arguments are, Einstein: “God does not play dice with the universe,” and Bohr’s reply being “Einstein, stop telling God what to do!”). You would definitely find many medical inventions which supersede the current understanding and practices.

    Art doesn’t need to challenge society/faith to evolve. It is something very personal, very abstract. When I see Hussain’s painting of goddess I feel nothing. Those sketches don’t look like the goddess I know of, worship of. (I would admit, I am not knowledgeable enough. I don’t understand difference between modern art and kids drawing). But if it hurts someone, I can understand. Also, these “sentiments” are not something which we believe it to be true/facts (as in Science), they are things we know are mythical and still have love/faith. Was it not possible for an artist to quench his artistic thirst, without touching these sentimental things? Even if he had to (let himself and his creativity out), couldn’t he have done it without displaying to the public? Would his credibility have gone down, as he didn’t portray all the things that he drew? I would say, the act he chose was not compulsory (as in science), it was optional.

    There have been many instances of gods printed on slippers or toilet seats in other countries. The community have opposed it in the civic way and the authorities have apologized and withdrawn. I would have expected the same thing here as well, instead of banning. (Also the problem here was, the artist refused to withdraw). But these things are not the justification for uncivilized behavior of the people.

    For science, challenging our conventions is the “need”. It is compulsory. For art, challenging is an option. Comparing a controversial art to the challenges that science has to face every day, is being unfair to the science discipline.

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    @ Mr.Vinay
    Dear Mr.Vinay,
    No disrespect to you, but please note that I do not get into discussion with you on this blog (as you might have noted). If you remember in the Ayodhya write up earlier one of your comments was (quote unquote): Forget Dr.Shah Alam Khan, even Azhar was okay with the Mandir.
    If you rubbish someone like that, I get a feeling that my opinion doesn’t matter to you. So why should I argue now? Anyway I hate this rubbishing off and I presume this was the essence of my whole argument with Vijay ji, Mahesh sahib and subsequently with Dr Anand.
    Hope you understand.
    Truly,
    Dr. Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    Vinay Reply:

    Dr Shah Alam,

    Thanks for letting me know your thoughts. I also would like to debate in an unbiased stage and prefer to stay away from a prejudiced platform.

    It is unfortunate how a good spirited statement was taken in an offensive way. My point was Muslims are not against building of Mandir (that is what the feeling I got from posts). But repetitive hammering of judgment by journalists would build the wedge between two communities again. I brought your name and Azhar as an example of moderate and extremist Muslims. “Forget about moderates(/your name), even extremists(/Azhar) are not opposing, then why are you building the wedge?” This is the question, I asked for the journos. (I was in fact trying to shield comman muslim men stating, people like Ansari thinks differently than Walf board or journalists). There was nothing demeaning you.

    My clarification is only to clear the allegation on me, not to convince you. I don’t have any intention to argue, where prejudices take over merit or demerit of an argument.

    Thanks,

    Kushagra Reply:

    I did read the article ‘The monster in the mirror’ by Arundhati Roy.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy

    Two weeks after 26/11 the article published in a British newspaper presents a sorry picture of India at a time when a nation was recovering from a shocking and brutal terrorist attack, it appears she was just waiting for an opportunity to blast India.

    Considering the nation was at its peak emotional turmoil, all she has got to is negativity, ridicule, apathy,disgust towards Indian state. While she goes on lecturing India on human rights, corruption,lawlessness,religious intolerance and fundamentalism, democracy, atrocities of Indian military in J&K,fake encounters, untouchability,rich-poor divide, possibly anything and everything that can possibly be wrong in Indian state, there is hardly any constructive suggestion. Not only venom is directed at each and every Indian institution, in her scathing criticism and sarcasm, she seems to forget that she is actually contributing towards the very anarchy she is blasting. Her article is nothing but garbage.

    Some minor reference to some lines in her article, which puzzled me whether they were necessary or were merely put to deride India?

    “We’re told one of these hotels is an icon of the city of Mumbai. That’s absolutely true. It’s an icon of the easy, obscene injustice that ordinary Indians endure every day. ”

    —–Really? What is the link between the hotel and injustice to ordinary Indians? Is she trying to suggest that injustice to ordinary Indians is due to the rich hotel owners or the ones who indulge in the luxuries of five star hotels?
    If that so then why does she herself stays in five star hotels, fly business class?

    ” A small box on the top left-hand corner in the inner pages of a national newspaper (sponsored by a pizza company I think) said “Hungry, kya?” (Hungry eh?). It then, with the best of intentions I’m sure, informed its readers that on the international hunger index, India ranked below Sudan and Somalia.”

    —-The height of pessimism,cynicism! Not even worth commenting.

    “But of course this isn’t that war. That one’s still being fought in the Dalit bastis of our villages, on the banks of the Narmada and the Koel Karo rivers; in the rubber estate in Chengara; in the villages of Nandigram, Singur, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Lalgarh in West Bengal and the slums and shantytowns of our gigantic cities.”

    —- We already know it Madam! So next time if someone dies in a family you know, you must console him/her by saying your loss is not big enough, there are plenty of people dieing every day, thats a bigger loss.

    “Narendra Modi, Bajrangi’s former mentor, is still the chief minister of Gujarat. So the man who presided over the Gujarat genocide was re-elected twice, and is deeply respected by India’s biggest corporate houses, Reliance and Tata. Suhel Seth, a TV impresario and corporate spokesperson, recently said: “Modi is God.” The policemen who supervised and sometimes even assisted the rampaging Hindu mobs in Gujarat have been rewarded and promoted. The RSS has 45,000 branches, its own range of charities and 7 million volunteers preaching its doctrine of hate across India. They include Narendra Modi, but also former prime minister AB Vajpayee, current leader of the opposition LK Advani, and a host of other senior politicians, bureaucrats and police and intelligence officers. If that’s not enough to complicate our picture of secular democracy, we should place on record that there are plenty of Muslim organisations within India preaching their own narrow bigotry.”

    —— Therefore we must not complain about the tragedy of 26/11

    [Reply]

  • Praveen Saxena

    One MMS appointed interlocutor said that We should talk to Pakistan to settle the Kashmir issue. Now the other MMS appointed interlocutor ( the lady) has said that we should amend the Indian Constitution to make provision for “Azadi”. We are now waiting for the third MMS appointed interlocutor to make his policy statement. Probably he will suggest let us grant them the “Azadi.”
    How do we read this situation. Are these people interlocutors are they setting policy. Or are they doing the groundwork for MMS/Sonia to move forward on these suggestions.

    If it is ok for the Govt appointed interlocutors to suggest Amendment to the Constitution to make provision for ” Azadi’ , I am well within my Rights to ask for Amendment to the Constitution to ask for dropping ” Secular” from the Preamble and deletion of Articles 29 and 30 from Chapter III of the Constitution.

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    Bye the way A Roy was sharing dias with a known comunalist Hindu killer and tyrant like Geelani, who publicly said on many occasions that Hindu Pandits for their safety sould support separatiss !!

    Need I say more about the callousness of those who say that a liar like A Roy, the pedddler for mafia-smugglers and naxalists , has even a shread of credibility ?

    These are the same guys who peddle and provide cover for the criminal militants for every masscre including the massacre of Hindu pilgrims to Amarnath and Sikhs of Chattisinghpora, by saying India did it !

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    No ones voice is silenced in India, including that of criminals, irrespective of what garb they wear.

    If it where USA, these criminals who align with murderers whom the state is fighting would be legally branded ‘enemy combatants’ and the law then would take its own course.

    Basically, the intelligence agencies whould collect evidense about their suppor to criminal terrorists and they would be prosecuted for aiding and abetting terrorists and sentenced to prison.

    [Reply]

    ram autar Reply:

    Until the advent of the British Raj, the sub-continent of South Asia had no name; its parts had names — Ganges Valley was known as Hind, Indus Valley as Sindh, the Brahmaputra Valley as Bengal and the South as Deccan. The connection between them was established by epics — the Mahabharata linked Hind with upper Sindh (Punjab) and the Ramayana linked the Ganges Valley to the South all the way to Lanka.
    But these epics were tales of conflicts between the invading Aryans. In the epics the indigenous peoples were called villains.
    HINDUS LOVE JEWS
    Hinduism called the indigenous peoples as evil deserving of every excess and injury. Hinduism has not changed despite 1,000 years of Muslim and British rule. Hinduism is the nemesis of every other faith in the world today which are more or less egalitarian. Perhaps the only faith that comes close to Hinduism is the modern-day Zionist Judaism. Jews like Brahmins are both ‘chosen people’ given to cheat, betray and torment all the other peoples. But the Jewish world did not overlap the Hindu world until the 20th Century.
    Now the alliance of Jews and Brahmins is a formidable force as both employ ruses and stratagem as the prime instrument for getting their way.

    [Reply]

    G. Mustafa Reply:

    Good Take. I heard indian officials claim hand of RSS in Samjhota Express and Pune blasts.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    The LeT today held a massive rally in POK asking for azaadi in Indian Kashmir.

    And the separatists lead by Arundhati Roy had done the same in India two days back.

    Both of them seem to be long lost twins. Almost twins A Roy’s novel talked about…. :) :D

    A Roy may have made fun of India, Indian police, Indian army. And now she has found a true soulmate in Geelani. And Hafeez Saeed… Goals being the same…

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    ————————
    Interlocutor!
    ————————

    The is what the interlocutor says

    “Any solution to the Kashmir issue must be acceptable to all regions and all sections of people of Jammu and Kashmir, Dileep Padgaonkar, who heads the Centre-appointed panel of interlocutors, said today after its maiden visit to the state.

    “Any kind of solution… Must be acceptable to all regions of J&K and to all sections of J&K people and it should have complete endorsement of public opinion as is expressed in Parliament of India and only then can we carry things forward,” he told reporters here before leaving for Delhi along with another interlocutor Radha Kumar.”

    ——————————————————————————————————————-

    No such solution exists.

    Forget Radha, even Lord Krishna may have the only solution for Jihadis in the narrow valley, as he had for dealing with Kauravas at Kurukshetra.

    Meanwhile, Obama should consider appointing Padgaonkar as interlocutor between USA, ISI and AL-Qida for a peaceful solution to the problem of Pakistan-terrorists. He would have better chances of success.

    [Reply]

    ram autar Reply:

    krishna is imaginary figure.never existed.mathura was budhdhist place.story was wriitten by brhmns to bring back yadavs(doodhwalas)to hindu fold who converted to budhhdism.there is no palace found so far where his 1603 wives used to live or where his neighbour wife called RADHA used to live.

    [Reply]

  • ram autar

    Brahma’s lust for Parvati
    MANU-DHARMA, A CODE OF INJUSTICE TO NON-BRAHMINS
    Manu Dharma Sastra is the weapon of the “highest caste” Brahmins. It has two main motives. First of all this enables the Brahmins to call themselves most superior to other castes and lead a happy life without doing any manual work. It has made the sons of the soil (Dravidians) as slaves to them forever. The non-Brahmins are deprived of their self-respect and decency. The second motive is to render injustice to all Dravidians as stipulated in the Manu’ law. When such an order is set up permanently, the organisations such as the government, courts, constitutional acts etc. would naturally be dominated and monopolised by the Brahmin community. Such an arrangement would render all others as slaves for ever. This is the other motive of the Manu’s code.
    It was clearly ordained that Manu’s code or law should be strictly followed for a period of three thousand years.
    The sudra (Dravidians) kings and other rulers took pride in proclaiming that they ruled the people as laid down in the Manu law. Thus the Brahmins sought the necessary safeguards to maintain the evil of casteism attached to others by birth.
    British rule: After the advent of the British rule, which succeeded the Tamil kings, the Brahmins permitted only the Criminal Acts to be changed on the lines of Western countries. For all civil matters, Hindu law based on Manu’s code alone was brought into force.
    Can there be a law like Manu’s law that provides a very favourable position only to one particular community? How could it be tolerated with the authority of our own law of the land? How can we permit the courts and judges to base their judgement on Manu’s code?
    Is there a country where the people of the land are termed as the sons of prostitutes? Is there a place where the toiling masses of the land are degraded by others of alien countries? Can you find a government, legislations or courts remaining a silent spectator to the injustice meted out to the majority of the population? Can you see anywhere people being so docile and negligent as here without trying to erase the disgrace? Nowhere else you can find selfish vested interests as you see in Tamil Nadu.
    It is for the Tamil society to think loftily. Our freedom and rights lie in the eradication of disgrace attached to our births. So I humbly appeal to you all to think over these monstrocities. You will feel perturbed and agitated at the ill treatment given to us by the Manu’s code.
    Leave the aged and elderly people. The future is in the hands of the younger generation. I have compiled this book with the hope that our youngsters atleast would come forward to think on right lines and act with wisdom.
    The origin of Manu’s code: Brahma has been attributed as the author of Manusmriti. He made laws and gave them to Brigu, a first saint. Later the law was handed over to Maricha by Brigu. (Vol.1, sloka 58, Manu code).
    Later on Manusmriti (orthodox varnasrama dharma) was let known to all the saints.
    Brahma’s lust: (1) According to a fable of Hindu religion Brahma acted as a priest to officiate the marriage of god Paramasiva with Parvathi. When Parvathi went round the sacred fire (omakundam) she held the end of the apron cloth with her left hand before going round. It enabled Brahma to have a clear look at the Parvathi’s thighs. On seeing the thighs, Brahma became a victim of lust. Brahma’s semen poured out. Brahma left the semen in a vessel near the sacred fire. Immediately Agasthiar was born.
    (2) When Parvathi came around the sacred fire again, Brahma once again relished her thighs and he once again became a victim to lust and semen poured out once again. This time he left the semen on the green plants, creepers and trees. This time a number of saints (rishis) were born in no time. Of them Valkilliyathe was one.

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Ram Autar;
    what non sense you are speaking. Is this the topic of day. Who is talking of these mythical things in this blog? why you are bringing this nonsense here?

    [Reply]

  • ram autar

    Blood-boiling history of Hindu India : Anti-Pakistan war-mongering has no takers
    As this is written Brahminism and Islam, the centuries- old enemies (see DSA ref. p.5 bottom), are again on the collision course. However, a bloody nuclear war looming over the sub-continent has gone to background as India found itself friendless in the world.
    In this war frenzy, the Pakistani Muslims were united but India’s Hinduists looked weak and divided. Even the recent Islamic terrorist attack on Bombay has gone to background.
    This is because the overwhelming productive labour (85%) of “Hindu India” is not only not Hindu but victim of Hinduism. Dr. Ambedkar had said all this. The Indian Govt. also knows it. That is why it is not ready to be swayed by the micro-minority war-mongers. The Manmohan Singh Govt. is hesitating though the war-mongering Brahminists are craving for “hate, revenge, blood and bomb”.
    Hindu logic: Not only the victims of Hinduism are producers of wealth but they are also advocates of peace. All producers need peace. It is only the consumers that crave for war. The Bahujans are so pre-occupied with their day-to-day drudgery, busy earning their daily bread that they are totally oblivious of the Hindu heroes’ cry for war, blood and bomb.
    This has been the unfortunate topsy-turvey situation in India where the producers have no voice at all. Their job is to only stand and wait. And then to do and die. This is the Hindu logic, said Dr. Ambedkar.
    What is happening today is not new to students of history. Gujarati Bania M.K. Gandhi, blackmailing Babasaheb on “separate electorate” for Dalits by resorting to his fake fast-unto-death, had given a clear warning that the Untouchables could remain in India only as slaves of the ruling Hindus and at their mercy. This is continuing even to this day.
    When the British were leaving India, the very same Brahminical rulers managed to partition the country at the cost of enormous bloodbath. And the creation of Islamic Pakistan gave a wonderful opportunity for the rulers to dub the majority Muslims who decided to remain in India as traitors and Pakistani agents.
    Thirst for blood: How about 15 to 20% of the Indian Muslim population is reduced to grinding poverty, pushed to urban slums, daily facing war and violence was graphically depicted in the Sachar Committee report by an upper caste (Hindu). (DV Jan.16, 2007 p.9).
    In 1971, the very same Brahminical rulers managed to get Pakistan divided by creating Bangladesh with the help of Mujibur Rahman.
    The thirst of this micro-minority Brahminical Social Order for blood is limitless. The killing of over 3,000 Sikhs in cold blood in “Blue Star” (1984), the anti-Mandal war and violence (1991), the demolition of Babri Masjid (1992), the “Gujarat Genocide” killing over 2,500 Muslims. It is an endless story of killing and blood-letting.
    When will their thirst for blood end?
    There is no war hysteria in the vast countryside and even in the urban working class areas. In other words, the Bahujan Samaj — comprising the SC/ST/BCs and the Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (85%) — are busy doing their daily work and do not contribute to the current beating of war drums and the call for “blood-for-blood” revenge.
    Tragedy of India: This hysteria exhibited through their “national” toilet papers and their television is confined to the micro-minority manuwadi upper castes who are not even 15% of our population. There are ever so many saner elements among the upper castes who do not share the call for hate, revenge, blood, bomb.
    But the problem of Hindu India is though the govt. is elected by the Bahujans, the minority Brahminical forces control it. As they have the monopoly media, live in big cities and control the country’s entire property and posts, their voice is alone heard.
    And the tragedy of India is this unrepresentative, anti-social minority fascist voice is called the “public opinion”. We are over 85%, but none cares for our voice.
    Since the last over 60 years every govt. that came right from the Kashmiri Brahmin Nehru up to the Khatri Sikh Manmohan Singh (who is not even an elected leader), came to rule by the votes of the Bahujans and after getting elected it started serving the ruling class. The elected leaders also join the ruling class and concentrate only on implementing its agenda. The only agenda is to keep them poor, illiterate, diseased, toiling masses in perpetual misery.
    Once you are poor, you automatically remain uneducated and then inject in them all the Brahminical poison so that they permanently remain slaves of the Brahminical rulers.
    This cycle of exploitation is continuing with the full blessings of the ruling Brahminical religion, their millions of holy men, their super rich temples, and their “sacred scriptures”.
    Dr. Ambedkar died a sad man: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Father of India, had said all these hundreds of times and died a sad man because the ruling Brahminical order used the monster Mahatma to see that every warning given by Babasaheb is maligned, rejected and dug deep in the sands of history.
    This is the tragic history of “independent India” which this very Mahatma handed over to the Hindu hounds and reduced us into permanent slavery. And converted India into a failed state.
    If there is a war today it is the innocent, hard-working producers of wealth who will suffer and die. That is why our people are always peace-mongers. Only the Dalal Street Dagabhajis want war.
    Religious hatred: The perpetrators of war frenzy are hiding the fact that they are motivated by religious hatred. The Brahminical toilet papers are experts in suppressing the truth. But even a child can make out that the Hindu hate-mongers are itching for war — which nobody in India wants except this ruling class. In the US, the Neocon hate-mongers (read zionist Jews) concocted the 9/11, managed to raise anti-Muslim hatred and forced President Bush to launch the “clash of civilisations”, meaning a war on Islam. But what ultimately happened was the war consumed its very perpetrator. The booting of Bush at a Baghdad press conference symbolised how much Bush is hated not only in the Muslim world but all over the world and even inside America.
    The religious hatred generated by the tiny Brahminical rulers of India resulted in the partition of India and hundreds of anti-Muslim riots — big and small. Yet the Brahminical thirst for blood is not quenched. They want more war, more violence, more blood, despite having not a single friendly neighbour but believing in the goodwill of one single country, America, which itself is hesitating to support the Hindu hysteria.
    Pakistan wins diplomatic battle: That means “Hindu India” has found itself lonely and isolated. A Brahminical daily DNA (Dec.27, 2008) even frankly admitted in its lead story saying “Pakistan wins”. Because China, Saudi Arabia and even America which India approached asked India to stop sabre-rattling. The Bengali Brahmin Foreign Minister was spitting too much fire and whipping up a war hysteria. India has not a single friend in the world except America but even that became unhelpful.
    But on the other Pakistan, a small and weak country, won the first round. Going by the reports in the Brahminical media itself the entire Pakistani political, religious, military leadership, plus the media, stood as one man to fight “Hindu India”. But inside India the Bengali Brahmin Foreign Minister and the Khatri Sikh PM spoke in different voices. The Bahujans who never hate Muslims refused to support their centuries-old Brahminical enemy.
    India as a failed state: An offshoot of the current crisis is Gen. Kiyani, the Pakistan army chief, has emerged as the strongman much to the disappointment of the Indian rulers who fondly hoped the corrupt President Zardari would be favourable to India. Zardari has now gone to background in the current churning. Even Nawaz Shariff who earlier differed on some issues has fallen in line. This is another blow on the Brahminical face.
    In contrast the opinion in India’s ruling class itself is divided. Only the irresponsible Brahminical media is itching for war.
    We have no hope in the Brahminical hate-mongers ever giving up their hate and their unending thirst for blood and more blood. Any student who has studied the tragic history of India will have to come to this conclusion.
    Though India is called a democracy where the majority is supposed to rule, the Bahujan majority of toiling Indians have no voice because they are made slaves. India has already become a failed state, and as our “India Shining” regular column has revealed we as a country are being pushed backward and more backward.
    The Brahminical ruling class not only lives in luxury but, as the latest Bombay terrorist attack has revealed, is ever eager to turn any incident to its advantage to further bludgeon the already bleeding Bahujans.
    Why India has no revolution: Foreign observers are wondering why the toiling millions, unable to bear the pain of exploitation, are not revolting. Yes. This is a good question which we have answered many times.
    Revolution will come only when the oppressed people become conscious of their exploitation and get angry. Here in India the people no doubt are in great pain. But they are not getting angry because they don’t know who is causing this pain. The Hindu rulers have so effectively mesmerised the suffering masses and convinced them that their suffering is because of their own destiny. This Hindu poison injected deep into their veins has convinced them that their suffering is their own making. They are made so unthinking that they can’t identify the enemy-oppressor even when he is standing right in front of him and siphoning off his blood — even as he falls dead in this painless (Hindu) operation. Dr. Ambedkar has said all these.
    Letters of blood: Except Dalit Voice, we have not even a single media to bring this to the notice of the victims of this painless operation.
    This is the tragic, blood-curdling history of Hindu India. This history has been repeating — endlessly centuries after century.
    If any good-hearted, far-sighted, impartial, noble historian were to come in future, she or he can write the sordid, atrophied, violent, criminal past of India only in letters of blood.

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Ram Autar;
    you are the fifth columnist here. Tell me how many brahmin chief ministers are there? The way you are writing in english, shows that you have been given an opportunity to learn this language. The number of backward classes and Scheduled castes occupying position of power is telling truth. You appear to be a brain washed person and parroting things which are no longer operative in current India. so not play in the hands of islamists. See what is happening to Opressed classes in Pakistan. While in India, suppressed people are coming up. Do not fool your self. give figures. Starting from mayawati. Take sothern states, Karunanidhi is ruling Tamilnadu. kerala is not brahminical state. karnatak is not brahminical state, AP is not brahminical state. Do you want me to go on….What you are talking, some rhetorics. The very fact that you have joined this blog in this language, show that opressed people of yore are getting their rights. Do not play in the hands of islamists. There, either you convert and serve the Khalifa or die.

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    Pankaj,

    Dont take the trouble to answer to this guy. It is the same Azhar Hussain, trying to enter India like Kasab did. As you know Azhar wants to be Indian, as Pakistanis get bashed up in the USA :)

    [Reply]

    M.Srinath Reply:

    “Anti-pakistan baiters have no takers…..” Ram autar or whatever incarnation you are, While you have the right to spew venom against real and imaginary enemies.Mulsims in India are faring much better than their counterparts elsewhere in the neighbourhood. Recently at a meeting in Jamia Milia, they thanked Allah for being on the right side of the border. Ask any Shia or Ahmediya in Pakistan. You need to sympathise them. The non-Brahmins and “Dravidians’ are beginning to assert politically, They are better off without your tears.

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    I guess thats the version of history of taught in Sharia-Pakistan – born out of Saudi-Chinese wedlock and laughed at by the world !!!

    Thanks for the free laughs ( the guy with the crooked mirror ).

    [Reply]

    ram autar Reply:

    contradict any point u feel is wrong.and be more specific.

    [Reply]

    ram autar Reply:

    That Hindutva fundamentally aims at the preservation of the Brahminical system, based as it is on the exploitation of the ‘lower’ caste majority, has been pointed out by numerous scholars. In his incisive study of the Hindutva phenomenon, titled Saffron Fascism, Shyam Chand, a Dalit scholar and activist who served for many years as member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, quotes from a secret circular sent out by the RSS to its preachers. It clearly indicates the sinister Brahminical strategy of using the Dalit-Bahujans to attack the Muslims and Christians, while at the same time aiming to keep the Dalit-Bahujans under the permanent slavery of the ‘upper’ castes.
    Excerpts from Secret Circular No.411 issued by the RSS:
    [.] Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes are to be recruited to the party so as to increase the volunteers to fight against the Ambedkarites and Mussalmans.
    Hindutva should be preached with a vengeance among physicians and pharmacists so that, with their help, time expired [sic.] and spurious medicines might be distributed amongst the Scheduled Castes, Mussalmans and Scheduled Tribes. The newborn infants of Shudras, Ati-Shudras, Mussalmans, Christians and the like should be crippled by administering injections to them. To this end, there should be a show of blood-donation camps.
    Encouragement and instigation should be carried on [sic.] more vigorously so that the womenfolk of Scheduled Castes, Mussalmans and Christians live by prostitution.
    Plans should be made more foolproof so that the people of the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes, Musslamans and Christians, especially the Ambedkarites, become crippled by taking in [sic.] harmful eatables.
    Special attention should be given to the students of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes so as to make them read the history written according to our dictates.
    During riots the women of Mussalmans and Scheduled Castes should be gang-raped. Friends and acquaintances cannot be spared. The work should proceed on the Surat model.
    Publication of writings against Mussalmans, Christians, Buddhists and Ambedkarites should be accelerated. Essays and writings should be published in such a way as to prove that Ashoka was opposed to the Aryans.
    All literature opposed to Hindus and Brahmins are [sic.] to be destroyed. Dalits, Mussalmans, Christians and Ambedkarites should be searched out. Care should be taken to see that this literature do [sic.] not reach public places. Hindu literature is to apply [sic.] to the Backward Classes and Ambedkarites.
    The demand by the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for filling in the backlog vacancies in services shall by no means be met. Watch should be kept to see that their demands for entry and promotion in government, non-government or semi-government institutions are to be rejected and their service records are destroyed with damaging reports.
    Measures should be taken to make the prejudices amongst Scheduled Castes and Backward people more deep-rooted. To this end, help must be taken from saints and ascetics.
    Attacks should be started with vigour against equality, preaching communists [sic.], Ambedkarites, Islamic teachers, Christian missionaries and neighbours [?].
    Assaults should be made on Ambedkar’s statues with greater efforts.
    Dalit and Muslim writers are to be recruited to the party and by them essays and literature opposed to the Dalits, Ambedkarites and Mussalmans written and preached [sic.]. Attention is to be paid to see that these writings are properly edited and preached [sic.].
    Those opposed to Hindutva are to be murdered through false encounters. For this work the help of the police and semi-military [sic.] forces should always be taken.”[2]
    *
    In the face of this circular, no more evidence is needed to show what Hindutva actually bodes for the Dalit-Bahujans. It circular very clearly indicates that Hindutva aims essentially at preserving the oppression of the Dalit-Bahujans, in addition to the Muslims and Christians, on which the entire edifice of Brahminism stands.

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Wow,
    so you are privy to some secret circulars. how much empowered?

    [Reply]

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    @Vijay

    I think you have lost your marbles……anything anti-India and anti-Hinduism is not me…There are millions of people among you who have the same opinion.

    Vijay the problem with you guys is that, Kashmir is slipping away and you are panicking.

    Vijay sometimes you yourself are Usman blowing India’s own trumphet and sometimes your Tom on this forum all Ga..Ga about India..

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    @ Azhar
    still high on heroine?

    [Reply]

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Pankaj I know you guys high of lies…keep it

    But do watch the video (Once they are cleared from the moderator) and think.

    Thousands of people chanting with one voice AZADI

    I know sends shivers down you peoples spine, but thats what happens people just get fedup

    G. Mustafa Reply:

    Pankaj, for every aspect the name comes is Azhar. Is Azhar Alladin’s gennie or what? Looks like its azharophobia on rise.

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Welcome back Raju !

    That is why I say we need to trifurcate Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir to show these idiots the actual size of the problem, area which is less than 2500 sq km !

    Kushagra Reply:

    Ok. Happy?

    [Reply]

    Vinay Reply:

    @Ram Avatar,

    Source of the secret circular has been found out to be iosworld. ( http://www.iosworld.org/RSS’s%20Anti-Dalit%20′Secret%20Circular.htm )

    IOsWorld.org stands for INSTITUTE OF OBJECTIVE STUDIES . It has been established in the year 1986 with a view to promote empirical and conceptual research(?). Research is carried out on ideologies and problems relevant to Indian polity, society, economy, religion and culture. Attention has been focused on the problems of Muslims and other minority groups. Its main office is in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi ( http://www.aboutus.org/IOsWorld.org ).

    Whoever wants to get anymore resources, please go straight to the link posted above rather
    than coming through another channel Ram Avatar.

    Subko Sanmathi De Bhagvan.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    Azhar Hussain has gone from bad to worse!!

    From sheer mad to lunacy!!

    Unable to understand the yext and tenor of the brigade, he has reappeared under a different “autar.”

    more cut and paste to denigrate India and Hinduism!

    Azhar bhai… you cannot apply lipstick on a pig !! :) :)

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain
  • Mumtaz Mir

    I am afraid brother Azhar you have no idea what these people are, by God we have been dealing with these double crossing Hindus for the past 63 yrs. Initially majority of the people wanted their basic rights protected and thats all our forefathers wanted. But now meray Bhai we don’t anything to deal with fellows.

    We Kashmiri’s feel for the rest of the Indian Muslims, who are pockets here and there, hence too scared to speak out. Thats why you might have noticed the way the Muslims respond on any of the forums, too timid, too scared. Always responding so as not to anger these Hindus, and I am sure you must have judged by the responses you get on this forum.

    It is funny, that if anything happens in India it the ISI and anybody writes against India on this blog it is you Azhar.

    Some joker said that Mumtaz Mir is Azhar and that was really funny.

    [Reply]

  • jai vaidya

    I thought it was ZAB who skewered the Simla agreement, he insisted that he would never be able to survive if he dropped the UN resolution outright, but would sincerely abide by the Simla agreement. What happened later is another story.
    The way these Kahmir interlopers are behaving is most bizarre. After years of saying there is no role for Pakistan in Kashmir. they get up one fine morning to tell the nation Pakistan some how should be involved in the solution of Kashmir violence. They look very hurt and pained when people question their judgement.. But given their past behaviour every one should be concerned.
    Make no mistake, the U.S. is expecting India to pay for its own exit out of Afghanistan. But, what does India gain from enabling a safe U.S. exit ? On the contrary, Obama when in Beijing has actively encouraged China to play Big Brother on Indo-Pakistan matters . This is the reason why China has taken an aggressive stance towards India..The new look east policy is late but very welcome. My hunch is that the Vietnamese will be even more staunchly allied with us than the Japanese in the long run.
    India is a big power, and should stand up like one. We do not take orders like the Pakistanis. We should give a good time to the Obamas, lots of photo ops and page 3 gossip much like MMS’s visit to Washington. – all fluff, no substance. Anyway after the U.S. election in November are over the White House would sound like the house that Donald Duck lives in.

    And please don’t arrerest Arundhati Roy. It’s wrong to arrest any author. After all what if she actually takes a liking to jail/ She’ll then want to break Nelson Mandela’s record. Every time her time of release would come up she would commit another petty crime, confess voluntarily, and demand the maximum sentence Right now she is slyly looking at Obama and “gyrating her hips furiously.” Let her do that happily.
    If the interlocutors and other players from the Indian side are honest and patriotic but, have differences with other Indians over the course to take,then it’s fine, but at the same time we must also take a sharp look to see if any modern day Jaichand has arrived on the scene. l

    [Reply]

  • Vijay Kumar

    @ Vinod Sharma,

    What is your take on the interlocutors exceeding their brief?

    Dileep has shot of in the North direction; Radha is going West… Somehow I think this will lead to

    a) heightened expectations in the separatists that these guys will be able to cut up India, when nothing is going to happen

    b) A lot of trouble for the Congress in the next national poll, in case these guys keep slipping and tumbling on their tongues

    [Reply]

  • Vijay Kumar

    @ Dr Shah Alam Khan,

    Well let us continue our debate a little more! (my lunch time posting!)

    Since you do write for papers which are on the extreme left, sir, have you really tried to figure out what the extreme left actually represents? Total clampdown on human thought, mass brainwashing and idol worshipping of those in power– much like blind religion, which they claim is the “opium of the masses.”

    I have serious reservations of the extreme left. And they have been formed after interacting with people who have lived in countries governed by the extreme left.

    My observations in China

    a) People do not like Mao. The masses suffered all along with a total clampdown on human thoughts, the destruction of religion and the right to own property. You may say religion and property are bourgeois concepts, better destroyed. Well… you can only say so in an enlightened democracy, not in a Maoist state where you will have to think what the big brother wants you to think.

    And if I want to have religion, which does not hurt the beliefs of others, why take away my right?

    b) Mao is portrayed as a romantic figure leading a mass of poor, down trodden and peasants all over the land. Wearing a golf cap tilted at an angle. Today’s China shivers at the thought of those years, yet somehow tries to portray Mao as a lovable grandfather who was good in parts.

    In reality he was a fattish overweight figure who had four wives over a lifetime while the masses in his life lived in communes, with man and wife meeting only on fixed days in a week.

    India’s romantic leftists are trying to project the revolutionary image to the masses, not the truth that this revolution left all heritage and history destroyed. And Millions bruitally killed and starved to death.

    c) The powerful China of today which is an aphrodisiac that drives the extreme left in India and the neghbourhood countries is just a vision of the Sanjay Gandhi and the Singapore model of growth which all communists and leftists deride.

    After Mao died and all blame for his misdeeds laid on the doorsteps of his fourth wife, Deng looked around the world, in 1979. From Sanjay Gandhi he borrowed the forced family planning concept. From Singapore he got the ideas on total foreign investment, strict labour laws, no democracy.

    And china thrived materially.

    Now my big question. WHY IS THE EXTREME LEFT DREAMING TO PUSH INDIA into the TORTURE and DESTRUCTION of MAOIST SAGA, salvation from which will then only come after pursuing VERY MATERIAL GOALS ?????

    Sir, I am hammering four quesion marks to get an answer from you !!

    [Reply]

    Shah Alam Khan Reply:

    Dear Vijayji,
    I lost track of our conversation as I thought the usual mudslinging and nonsense has started on the blog and it was futile to follow track. Hence I saw your “ultra left” remarks late. Well, I don’t know what gave you an idea that I am a supporter of the so called ultra left. Categorically I am not and let me tell you, what I ever I have read, I think even Arundhati Roy is not a Maoist as many tend to paint her. I know labelling people Maoists, Communists, Ultra leftists is a practice of convenience. Convenience of rubbishing whatever they say. And it makes sense even more if you are living in a democratic set up where freedom of speech comes naturally (at least to those who toe the line of usual rhetoric).
    Your comments on revolution, communism, China and Mao seem to be derived from the intense senseless hatred which these quarters generate from religious and materialistic groups of Indian society which now seem to be taking a strong hold on many democratic institutions including the media. I am sorry to be harsh, but Vijay ji your rhetoric of Communist hatred needs brushing up on a literary front. Theories of dialectical contradictions are too complex to be hammered with a few question marks demanding answers which you understand. Sir, you need to read and then see if all this is this is the cause of suffering to mankind or is it otherwise. Your simplistic solutions and opinions whether they are on trifurcation of Kashmir or on Maoism raise questions at many fronts. I know you will not like these words but then we have to be on the same page before we understand each others language.
    As for your earlier remarks on “silencing authors” on SOME issues, Vijay ji who is going to judge what is to be silenced and what not? Who will define these issues? Will it be a decrepitude & dogmatic Bal Thackrey or an imbecile Shahi Imam? Or maybe the corrupt politicians and their narrow ideologies? Censorship of any kind is dangerous in a democracy and who knows this best than us, Indians.
    Truly,
    Shah Alam Khan
    AIIMS, New Delhi

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    @ Dr Shah Alam Khan,

    Thank you Dr Sahab for the reply. I am sorry if I sounded rude when I put in the four question marks. I guess the overentusiastic dog in me gets carried away, when the keyboard is in front of me!

    However I do love this exchange of ideas with you, even though we disagree on so many things. Let me tell you as a site environmental engineer, I have learned to factor in both theory and practical. For example when I examine the water of the Yamuna, I can go by the government report which says everything has been cleaned, the water is pure, etc etc. Or I can go by my own tests, which show the pollution levels and the ‘death’ these waters carry.

    And that is what I learnt about societies. I was a communist in my heart in college in the early ninties and believed that a truly just society could happen only when the state assumed powers to control. Yet…

    On my first visit to a breakway republic of the Soviet Union cleared all doubts. NObody had tears for the ideals of communism I believed in, even though they had great respect for an Indian from the land of Raj Kapoor. But the grim reality was that people who supposed to be educated not to be material were happy to get a consumer society. And for me it was ironic to see girls outside resturaunts willing to sell themselves for something as material as a Levi’s jeans…

    I have already given a hint of the practical reality I saw in China.

    At the end of it I am trying to say that ultimately there cannot be a greater ideolgy that humanism. It supercedes religion and any other political ideology. But we need to be practical about the material needs of people as well as the need ofr justice.

    So even if you find my solution for tri-furcation simplistic, I would still pitch for it based on practical realities of life….

    Of course I would never give powers of censorship to a lout like Bal thackrey or an imbecile like the Shahi Imam. But maybe the supreme court….?

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Dear Dr. Khan
    Your analysis about Arundhati’s novel. communism, Maoist, religion and Capitalism was interesting. I can not go into thhe details of Marxism or Capitalism for the simple reason that I do not know much about them. But, throughout world, Communism and communist inspired dictatorships have collapsed, gone bankrupt and has caused great mayhem. Unbridled Capitalism has not fared any better. It has also caused misery and deprivation. It may sound vacuous that Communism distribute poverty only and capitalism generate greed only.I think, Indian situation is so unique that either pure capitalism or communism will not suit our climes. Even China to prosper, had to resort to certain aspects of capitalism. In my opinion, India should allow people to generate wealth as they can do to best of their ability but Tax collection and distribution of that revenue to needy masses of Dalits and tribals should be ensured taking care of health, education and infrastructure. poor masses can not generate wealth and rich will not voluntarily distribute wealth.

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    @Azhr/Mir Zafar/Arun Krishnamurthy

    I order you to post some more you-tube ilnks here to show

    1. How India is bad and drone-hit, ISI-Pakistan is great.
    2. How devious Brahmanical forces in India, defeated poor Pakistan and cut it in 1/2
    3. How cunning Hindus reduced Jinnah to a moth-eaten Pakistan

    I promise you at next olympics I am arranging for a you-tube link and cut-and-paste contest for Saudi-Jihadi-Chinese inbred idiots. You may win some medal.

    [Reply]

  • Vinay

    @Ram Avtar

    The secret circulars of RSS is found to be originating from IOS world ( http://www.iosworld.org/RSS’s%20Anti-Dalit%20′Secret%20Circular.htm )

    IOS which stands for Institute of Objective Studies was established in the year 1986 with a view to promote empirical and conceptual research (!?). Research is carried out on ideologies and problems relevant to Indian polity, society, economy, religion and culture. Attention has been focused on the problems of Muslims and other minority groups. This prestigious research centre is located at Jamia Nagar, New Delhi ( http://www.aboutus.org/IOsWorld.org ). Interested people are requested to visit the research centre.

    Subko Sanmati De Bhagvan.

    [Reply]

    Sal Reply:

    Good.

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    Rajiv calm down boy, you ain’t seen nothing yet, becaiuse the moderator removed most the youtube links reference to the independence movement and people of Kashmir chanting Jivay Jivay Pakistan. So much for your free speech views.

    Did you watch those videos, Rajiv which has so un-nerved you with the same old stale posts.

    Mustafa what ISI is for India, Azhar is for this blog.

    All I am doing is showing them the facts, the more I show the more abusive they get. That means more truth I speek and show, the more angry these guys get, which instead proves that I must be saying something right.

    [Reply]

    Rajiv Reply:

    @aZHAR ( of Saudi-Chinese tutelage , with Jinnah’s crooked mirror that shows how great is Pakistan ! )

    Please post more ‘fact’s’ and you-tube links.

    Pay no attention to those who think Pakistan is a most crippled thug nation on earth where the majority ( East Pakistanis ) seceded from the minority ( west pakistanis ) and the remaining areas are either under great Sharia or under drone-rule !

    The Golden age os Sharia is flousihing in Pakistan.

    You are doing great on this blog and showing how great is Pakistan.
    Everyone here admires you for your great grasp of history.

    Please some more video links.

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    Vijay stick with the burning topic at hand, did you see my brothers from Kashmir waving Pakistani flags singing Jivay Jivay Pakistan.

    I understand your anger, hence No Comment from your end.

    Yes Vijay we are already there, and there isn’t anything you people can do except not post videos and bark on this forum.

    Mumtaz Mir keep up the good work and just be careful the terrorist army is lurking around the corner.

    [Reply]

    Rajiv Reply:

    If someone in Indian kashmir waves a Pakis flag, thats the freedom they have in Indian democracy. Any individual can wave Pakis, Sharia or any flag. Who cares ?????????

    [Reply]

    Pankaj#1 Reply:

    Azhar
    What do you mean that indians can not do any thing? why are you so cocksure? After getting 100 children killed, by offering them money to die,( Anyway, scores of suicide bombers, mostly children have died across the globe) you think that you have won the situation. Remember, people of your ilk are dying in thousands everywhere and you people are no where near so called victory. Man, this is war of civilization. Progressive ideas, world wide freedom from opression, including religious Opression, which is best exemplified by Islam, practiced by people like you. So, do not get carried away by soft response of indian government. If it comes to the crunch, you will have real taste of Indian might. By the way, you do not feel sorry for chinese muslims, who were butchered by Chinese Army. Their land settled by ethnic chinese. You try to get solace, attaching yourself to chinese appron. Some time you seek comfort in Indian fault lines, some time in US might and some time in sheer numbers of converts all over world. Nothing is going to help people of your bent of mind. West including Europe has understood now well the ramification of mollycoddling you people. Russia will take revange in due course of time and China is only looking after its interest. Soon, a day will come, when people of your ideas will be wiped out. That is writing on the wall. Still, there is no body better than indians to give sustenance to Pakistan, believe me. Or do not believe me at your peril.

    [Reply]

  • Rajiv

    ———————————————————————————————————————
    meanwhile, anathor brother of Azhar, arrested in USA on Oct 27,2010 for terrorism.
    ———————————————————————————————————————

    I am sure he holds views same as Azhar and has great you-tube and video-links that show the Golden age of Sharia-Pakistan and how India is becoming weaker and poorer every day.

    Great facts only learnt and found in the madrassas of Pakistan under Taleban tutelage where great scholars like Azhar and Farooqi are produced every day.

    “A Pakistan origin American national, Farooque Ahmed (34), was arrested on October 27 for plotting attacks on subway stations in and around Washington, reports Daily Times. Farooque Ahmed is believed to be tied to al Qaeda, US officials said. Farooque Ahmed, who lived in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, had been allegedly casing and photographing subway stations since April to plan simultaneous bomb attacks. “Farooque Ahmed is accused of plotting with individuals he believed were terrorists to bomb our transit system, but a coordinated law enforcement and intelligence effort was able to thwart his plans,” David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, said.

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    :D :D :D :D BREAKING NEWS– NEW YORK TIMES — SEE IT LIVE ON GOOGLE :D :D :D

    After another Pakistani– Farooque Ahmed, has been arrested for terror links in Washington, all Pakistanis are running for cover.

    Some are pretending to be Indians, others are pretending to be Jews and some others are hiding below their beds and in the gutter !! :) :) :D

    If you zoom on to google earth on to New York, on to a street gutter, you will see a Pakistani called Azhar Hussain hiding inside in fear !!! he comes out of the New York gutter, rants .”India.. India… India..” and runs back like a street rat, into the gutter … :D

    It is all being broadcast live on all channels. ISI supporter Azhar is now being hunted by the FBI…..

    Ha ha ha ha :D :D :D what a fraud… ah aha haha What a cuntry of jokers called Pakistan :D :D :D

    [Reply]

    Rajiv Reply:

    The Pakistani when arrested and shoved inside the police car was heard crying ‘India, India who made me terrorist !’

    He was also carrying a mysterious crooked mirror that puzzled everyone !

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Absolutely right Rajiv ! And whenever this furtive rat from Pakistan looks into this crooked mirror, he sees the three faces of Pakistani society…

    – the first face is a killer of minorities like Shias, HIndus, Sikhs…
    – the second face is the murderer of democracy and the spreader of Islamic terror…
    – The third face of a man burning red in jealousy at India’s progress…

    Ha ha ah :D :D let’s us all laugh at scared Azhar. who is about to go to sleep in his gutter in the US

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Vijay and Rajiv I am still laughing at your above post. You keep calling me rat, I take it you are angry and using it in derogatory manner. But your manders are full of dirty rats, with rats c- r a p all over the place. Read and tell me.

    Our place of worship The Masjid even at the most remote place is always clean where we can go and pray, not have to worry c-r a p all over the place.

    Rats Rule at Indian TempleSharon Guynup and Nicolas Ruggia
    National Geographic Channel

    June 29, 2004
    The floors are a living tangle of undulating fur. Small, brown blurs scurry across marble floors. Thousands of rats dine with people and scamper over their feet.

    It may sound like a nightmare from the New York City subway to some, but in India’s small northwestern city of Deshnoke, this is a place of worship: Rajastan’s famous Karni Mata Temple.

    Printer Friendly

    Email to a Friend

    What’s This? SHARE
    Digg

    StumbleUpon

    Reddit

    RELATED
    Sari Weaving Offers Beautiful Product but Hard Life Bubonic Plague Traced to Ancient Egypt City of Leh Thrives as Oasis of Peace in Kashmir
    This ornate, isolated Hindu temple was constructed by Maharaja Ganga Singh in the early 1900s as a tribute to the rat goddess, Karni Mata. Intricate marble panels line the entrance and the floors, and silver and gold decorations are found throughout.

    But by far the most intriguing aspect of the interior is the 20,000-odd rats that call this temple home. These holy animals are called kabbas, and many people travel great distances to pay their respects.

    The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory. At some point during her life, the child of one of her clansmen died. She attempted to bring the child back to life, only to be told by Yama, the god of death, that he had already been reincarnated.

    Karni Mata cut a deal with Yama: From that point forward, all of her tribespeople would be reborn as rats until they could be born back into the clan.

    In Hinduism, death marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one on the path to a soul’s eventual oneness with the universe. This cycle of transmigration is known as samsara and is precisely why Karni Mata’s rats are treated like royalty.

    Gautam Ghosh, professor of anthropology and Asian studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, noted how rare this rat-worshipping temple is. “In India, as in the West, rats aren’t treated with particular veneration.”

    In Hinduism, many deities take animals forms. “The main theological point is that there’s no dividing line between what forms gods or goddesses can use,” said Rachel Fell McDermott, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures at Barnard College in New York City. “There’s nothing to say they can’t take form as a fish, a bird, or even a rat.”

    Ghosh noted that this temple is linked to the royal family who ruled Bikaner, a nearby city. When a Hindu royal family is seeking greater power, they look to the local cults for a patron god—or, according to London-based art historian George Michell, usually a goddess—to help them attain that power.

    The male gods are not as powerful for direct involvement in people’s lives, he explained, so cults surrounding local goddesses are commonly used to help sway things in their favor. “Kings who want to be powerful in India must be protected by goddesses,” Michell said. This is how the Karni Mata Temple was established.

    vijay kumar Reply:

    :D :D THank u Azhar boy !! U gave the reply I expected !

    A bit of cut and paste and abuse and no original idea!! All part of the Pakistani school curriculam created jointly by Cobra Gen Zia and LeT. :D

    Let me tell you I have seen most Mandirs in India to be clean and I have seen many clean Masjids, and I have seen dirty mandirs and masjids also …

    But there is a special type of dirt which now occurs in some Pakistani (and not Indian) Masjids, which of course you will never see. The misuse of religion to kill minorities like Shias, Hindus, Ahemadiyas; the mental dirt of killing democracy and imprisoning women …

    Of course you never noticed all that.

    After all you are a product of a school curriculum prepared by Gen Zia and taight by Hafeez Saeed… :D :D

    vijay kumar Reply:

    :D :D THank u Azhar boy !! U gave the reply I expected ! :D

    A bit of cut and paste and abuse and no original idea!! All part of the Pakistani school curriculam created jointly by Cobra Gen Zia and LeT. :D

    Let me tell you I have seen most Mandirs in India to be clean and I have seen many clean Masjids, and I have seen dirty mandirs and masjids also …

    But there is a special type of dirt which now occurs in some Pakistani (and not Indian) Masjids, which of course you will never see. The misuse of religion to kill minorities like Shias, Hindus, Ahemadiyas; the mental dirt of killing democracy and imprisoning women …

    Of course you never noticed all that.

    After all you are a product of a school curriculum prepared by Gen Zia and taight by Hafeez Saeed… :D :D

    Mumtaz Mir Reply:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_T_bTyuBZ8

    [Reply]

    Mohan Ramchandnai Reply:

    Though I dont agree with Azar, but I am afraid what he is saying may happen.
    UPA under Sonia Gandhi – ( I cannot call her a traitor as she is not an Indain )
    with the help from very strong Media NDTV ( Burkha Dutt ), CNN-IBN ( Rajdeep Sardesai)
    HT ( Vinod Sharma ) Outlook ( Vinod Mehta ) and unmeasurable financial clout
    ( Money earned from various scams such as 3G spectrum, CWG etc ) is slowly changing
    the mindset of people of India that we should give up on Kashmir.
    I am afraid their plan might be successful. Their are lot of Jaichands in India.

    [Reply]

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Mohan you forgot the most important point: Murder of almost 80000 Kashmiris. The Murder that they will never forget.

    vijay kumar Reply:

    The Arundhatis of this world, who are dreaming to get a Nobel prize for peace will never talk about the ISI money Gilani gets; they will share the stage with Gilani but never with the people of Jammu and Ladakh who are neglected and killed by terrorists.

    Mahesh, you may feel proud that the Pakistanis are giving us a pat for having an Arundhati.

    But…

    Remember, Aunty Arundhati is out to destroy the very country and institutions which give her freedom to speak and colluding with the ISI she is in the end fighting for the forces which represent regression, murder and crushing of human rights and aspirations….

    Mahesh Reply:

    Vijay Kumar,
    Have you read the blogpost I’ve provided the link to at all ? Did you understand it ?
    Do we realize that the blogpost is not about Arundhati Roy – it is about Pakistan ?
    About Ms. Roy ….. I’m little confused when you say she is colluding with ISI to destroy the institutions of this country. First, since when has dissenting opinion – that hardly enjoys any support from Middle Class, Ruling Elite and even the English Press become powerful enough to destroy the “insitutions” ? Is her narrative so powerful ? Are the “institutions” so fragile ? Or , worse still, both ?
    And , btw, try to be as much specific as possible about your dis-agreements on her political positions in case you intend to discuss this further.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.

    vijay Kumar Reply:

    @Mahesh,

    I read Dr Shabir Choudhry’s blogpost. I have no issues with what is written, though I feel it given an incomplete picture. It does not talk abut the suffering of the Jammuites, Ladakhis and the valley people who want to be with India. Still I would praise Dr Choudhry for raising this topic of the disatisfaction of Kashmiris in Pakistan.

    I think you misunderstood my posting. I was trying to get at the fact that, Arundhati roy has been given so much importance by the media and us that she has been able to peddle her incomplete truth as the only truth. If we put it in the background of Jethmalani’s disclosures about the financing of violence and agitations by Pakistanis of both the Hurriyat and especially Gilani, then it all looks so convulated.

    Why

    a) Which country would give so much importance to a paid agent of an enemy state like Gilani, except India. Would the US do it to a chinese agaitating for China in the USA or the Chinese give such importance to an agent paid by India fightng for breaking up India. Or most important will Pakistan allow an Indian paid agent to agitate and sponsor terror in Pakistan/

    b) While we should evolve as as a secular democratic state, we should be careful of termites which want to destroy the very freedoms the Indian state gives to its citizens.

    Vinay Reply:

    @Mahesh,
    Re : Arundhati Roy,
    I found this articles (from Pak) interesting. http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/where-i-disagree-with-some-prominent-liberals-of-our-time/ Some lines from article regarding Arundhati.

    “..One position which I have often found as somewhat of an anomaly is the stance of some western liberals on the war in Afghanistan. Their stance does not stop at opposing the war but stretches to paint Taliban as some kind of “victim” . A raving liberal from the other side of the border, aka Miss Roy, also has the tendency to view Taliban in some glorified “robin hood” kind of a way. Likewise prominent liberals/left wingers like Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to criticize USA for its imperial designs often cross the line and end up sounding as supportive of Taliban in a twisted way..”

    “…I think a major problem is the excessive usage and in fact abuse of the concept of self introspection. Self introspection is a great virtue but it should not come at the cost of credibility. People like Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to show hypocrisy in their own societies do end up becoming less credible and even counterproductive…”

    I found “Pak tea house” and “secular Pakistan” give out moderates view. This is probably one article you would appreciate from secular pakistan. http://secularpakistan.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/land-reforms-history-legal-challenges-and-how-shariat-courts-abolished-them/ (I remember, you having shown interest in this topic earlier).

    Vinay Reply:

    @Mahesh

    (I am posting it again, as the previous one disappeared after submission. My apologies, if it leads to multiple entries of the same post. Seems to be some problem with the site.)

    Re : Arundhati Roy,

    I am quoting few lines from this interesting article (from Pak)
    http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/where-i-disagree-with-some-prominent-liberals-of-our-time/
    “..One position which I have often found as somewhat of an anomaly is the stance of some western liberals on the war in Afghanistan. Their stance does not stop at opposing the war but stretches to paint Taliban as some kind of “victim” . A raving liberal from the other side of the border, aka Miss Roy, also has the tendency to view Taliban in some glorified “robin hood” kind of a way. Likewise prominent liberals/left wingers like Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to criticize USA for its imperial designs often cross the line and end up sounding as supportive of Taliban in a twisted way..”

    “…I think a major problem is the excessive usage and in fact abuse of the concept of self introspection. Self introspection is a great virtue but it should not come at the cost of credibility. People like Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to show hypocrisy in their own societies do end up becoming less credible and even counterproductive…”

    I found “Pak tea house” and “secular Pakistan” give out moderates view of Pakistan. This is probably one article you would appreciate from secular pakistan. http://secularpakistan.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/land-reforms-history-legal-challenges-and-how-shariat-courts-abolished-them/ (I remember you having shown interest in this topic earlier).

    Vinay Reply:

    @Mahesh

    (I am posting it again, as the previous one disappeared after submission. My apologies, if it leads to multiple entries of the same post. Seems to be some problem with the site.)

    Re : Arundhati Roy,
    I am quoting few lines from this interesting article (from Pak) below.
    http://pakteahouse.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/where-i-disagree-with-some-prominent-liberals-of-our-time/
    “..One position which I have often found as somewhat of an anomaly is the stance of some western liberals on the war in Afghanistan. Their stance does not stop at opposing the war but stretches to paint Taliban as some kind of “victim” . A raving liberal from the other side of the border, aka Miss Roy, also has the tendency to view Taliban in some glorified “robin hood” kind of a way. Likewise prominent liberals/left wingers like Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to criticize USA for its imperial designs often cross the line and end up sounding as supportive of Taliban in a twisted way..”

    “…I think a major problem is the excessive usage and in fact abuse of the concept of self introspection. Self introspection is a great virtue but it should not come at the cost of credibility. People like Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and Noam Chomsky in their zeal to show hypocrisy in their own societies do end up becoming less credible and even counterproductive…”

    I found “Pak tea house” and “secular Pakistan” give out moderates view. This is probably one article you would appreciate from secular pakistan. http://secularpakistan.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/land-reforms-history-legal-challenges-and-how-shariat-courts-abolished-them/ (I remember you having shown interest in this topic earlier).

    Vinay Reply:

    Sorry for this mess. Messages did not appear for a full day. Suddenly I find 3 of them!

    Mahesh Reply:

    @Vijay Kumar and @Vinay,
    Clubbing a response to both of you as we are discussing on a common thread.
    First – about Gilani and Arundhati Roy…..
    Before I move any further on this – here is the overall Kashmir context that I see.
    For whatever reasons – Kashmiris do view us (Indians – as in Indian establishment) with severe mistrust and hatred. A problem exacerbated especially past 8-10 months or so, so much so that even Army chief has commented about squandered opportunity in Kashmir after a fairly long (couple of years since about 2004/2005) period of stability. My guess is our over-obsession with Security in Kashmir has prevented us from appropriate decentralisation of Power to kashmiri polity and in the process the political opportunists have ruled the state resulting in bad governance. The continued conflict with Security Forces (not to be equated with Army) has added the much needed proverbial “salt rub” on the injury. This has fuelled the nascent demand for “Azaadi” . Arundhati Roy and Gilani have been voicing these demands vociferously – that’s it to it. Nothing more , nothing less. Personally, I have strong reservations about Arundhati Roy’s positions and her choice of expressions. But – from my perspective that doesn’t make her a traitor. If she doesn’t express vociferously – someone else will. It is the context that is important – no point in shooting at the messenger. IMHO, she could’ve taken a more pragmatic approach and voiced differently. Maybe, perhaps the way HT columnist Samar Halarnkar articulated the frustration of his HT colleague – a kashmiri. But fine, it is her style. And yet that hardly makes her a traitor. Not even by a long shot.
    Gilani – I find this phenomenon particularly interesting. On one hand the sentiment in kashmir appears to be for independance from both India and Pakistan, on the other hand he tows the pro-pakistan line insisting Pakistani participation in “Kashmir Dialogue” , time and again propelled in publicity everytime there is un-rest in Kashmir and relegated to fringe during the period of stability. His “political strength” appears more related with the mess we Indians have created in kashmir than anything else.
    We can resort to “He said, She said” euphemisms about Arundhati Roy – but as long as the context of issues missing from the focus of discussion it could just as well degenerate to name calling.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.

    Vinay Reply:

    @Mahesh,
    I would agree, excessive presence of force was not necessary from Indian side. Over assertion leads to aversion. As I said earlier, calling back CPRF forces and also stopping huge aids will serve Indian interest best. On one side, it helps Indian economy. On the other side, both parties (Kashmir and rest of India) can stop accusing each other of ‘using them’.

    Also, we don’t find any Kashmiri (I mean a journalist) who speaks about the other half of the truth to their people. Be it the made up Shopian case, or the stone pelting boys getting paid from separatists. As I said already, it is easy to find Arundhari Roys in open democracies like (rest of) India but hard to find in the rigid(/religious) lands (like Kashmir).

    Raju Kurien Reply:

    Mohan

    Sonia may or may not try. It is uip to us, the Indian citizens to prevent that. We should force our govt to roll tanks there. Brurte force, even if means killing many.

    These Muslims know on;ly power.

  • shashi menon

    This person Vinod Sharma is a congressman more and political editor of newspaper least. He seems to be cartoon of congress furnished in some talk shows!! God bless his desire for some posts in UPA after his retirement!!

    [Reply]

    Ankit Reply:

    He has already been awarded for this Congressi propaganda by being given a seat in the minority comission. Congress and the media collude so transparently to screw the common people that it is not funny.

    [Reply]

  • S George

    Vinodji, I’ve also never doubted the BJP’s patriotism but i doubting your allegince with congress. Come out clean and tell us (bloggers) that ur still independent and not connected with any political party. If yes they clearly say that ur joined congress party, then i will ask my church to officially felicitate u for working as a honest person for congress.

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    @Vijay

    A rat worshippers should be using the Rat so losely.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    :D :D :D BREAKING NEWS !!! AZHAR MAY LAND AT GITMO :D :D:D

    There could be terrible news for our dear Azhar Hussain – he may end up at Gauntamano bay where residents of USA are despatched in case they plot anything against the country. And I have got this news from an Indian software developer who is working in Los Angles in a security software development company.

    It seems the USA has installed security software in all internet servers which scrutinises messages, emails and postings of all residents. In this software certain keywords are picked up, as in a search engine, and then given points. If you clog a number of points you go under scrutiny. Unfortunately the highest number of points go to statements like “I love Pakistan “ since Pakistan is a worldwide creator of terror. Similarly expressing love for terrorists, Hamid Gul, ISI (which Azhar Hussain does always) give you very very high points. Codes have been developed to string words to derive meanings.

    Unfortunately Azhar, you postings will get you the highest mark. Despite cursing the USA, you still happen to be there to enjoy its largesse. Now you may enjoy its notorious jail.

    I am informing you about this out of serious concern as till now I, at least don’t think you are a terrorist, though you have expressed your love for Pakistani terror actions all the time.

    I would not want to see you behind bars at Gauntamano, still shouting “India… India…India “ while American prison guards throw bread at you…

    [Reply]

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    Hahaah I am laughing at you losers……Forget the USA….what can you do hindu buniya…..USA is not spelled INDIA……More than 2/3 in GITMO have gotten out because the American Justice system has intervened….Most of them hve been released…..and ofcourse those who are invovled in terrorism will be and should be put where the sun don’t shine….thats exactly why the GujRati terrorist Modi was not issued a visa to the USA….

    They i.e in the Congress they have a legislative pending about the atrocities in Kashmir, sooner or later those who advocate violence against Muslims will also be called to face the music. You losers can laugh all you want on the sideline, but justice will be served sooner or later. That is exactly why USA is such a great country…..

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Look baby Azhar you have already changed your stance towards the USA :D :D :D

    Like a true scared Pakistani !!! :D :D

    From now on you will be speaking all good about the USA… and even saying that the drones are lovely !!! And Gitmo is a picnic house :D :D

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    Further on Azhar, if you log in with a different name and try pro terror and pro ISI/ Hamid Gul/ Al Queeda/ LeT postings, they will still be traced to your name thru Internet protocol services. IBM and SUN have jointly given inputs into the software.

    Just for your good I can tell you at least 2100 pakistanis and 00 Iranis are already under surveillance of homeland security and FBI.

    That is how this latest Pakistani plot to kill innocents was discovered.

  • http://mindpowerdesigns.com hypnosis

    I will not debate with your decisions because I think you’re right on the money! You have put together a consistent case for your sentiments and now I know more about this unusual topic. Gives Thanks for this amazing post and i will come back for more.

    [Reply]

  • Mahesh

    @Nobody in particular….
    Ran into this interesting article at Dr. Shabir Choudhry’s blog aptly titled – “Can Pakistan produce one Arundhati Roy to speak truth? ” (http://drshabirchoudhry.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-pakistan-produce-one-arundhati-roy.html) .
    Would more than love to see some “enlightened comments” from Pakistani side about sentiments echoed in the blogpost .
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @Mahesh,

    There is also an interview with Ram Jethmalani in the TImes of India. Ram, was the head of an earlier NDA nominated Kashmir committee. He says that in one of the peace committee meetings a fight broke out in his presence between the moderates and GIlani.

    The moderates accused GILANI OF TAKING TOO MUCH MONEY FROM PAKISTAN and said THAT THEY (the moderates) ARE GOING TO STOP TAKING THIS PAKISTANI MONEY for creating HAVOC in J&K, while Gilani was shamelessly taking more and more….

    So anybody who says lets listen to Gilani… I’ll say should we give so much importance to an ISI agant and protect him all the time while the innocents are killed by terrorists?

    What an evil irony!! Our so called liberals (most of them just publicity seekers) are willing to go on stage with an ISI agents and killer of innocents like Gilani. Yet have no tears for the security men who protect this nation from the narco terrorism unleashed by ISI and Pakistan…

    We should expose these selfish evil idiots who are out to destroy the land which gives them freedom to speak

    [Reply]

    (Dr.) B.N.Anand Reply:

    Hello Vijay
    Why the separatist leader Sayed Gilani getting pension from the Jand K govt. for being an ex- MLA of Jand K assembly for many years?.Can’t his pension be stopped for pursuing a violent anti-national movement? After all it is Indian tax payers money with which he is seemingly surviving.
    BNA

    [Reply]

    Vijay Kumar Reply:

    @Dr ANand,

    You see we are a soft state. You will get a thousand publicity seekers willing to fight for Gilani’s rights to take money from Pakistan as well as India…

    But if I were to ask Arundhati and Gautam navlakha or any of such tyoes to lead a procession through Srinagar on Behalf ot the suffering minorites of Kashmir like Sikhs, HIndus and Buddhists with the banner saying “we want to be with India,” , they will shout ” No No… why should we? Does a pro India statement ever get international headlines….?”

    Here is a gist of possible dialogues you could hear..

    Arundhati : “do you think my standard is so low… that I will lead a pro government of India movement? Ha !! Anyway we leftists have succeeded in portraying Hindus and SIkhs as communal… while Gilani and his gang are certainly secular….”

    Gautam: “Arre baba… u think I want a bullet in my git? My schedule is anyway booked till 2030…”

    [Reply]

  • Azhar Hussain

    @Vijay

    “Further on Azhar, if you log in with a different name and try pro terror and pro ISI/ Hamid Gul/ Al Queeda/ LeT postings, they will still be traced to your name thru Internet protocol services. IBM and SUN have jointly given inputs into the software.”

    Al Queed/Let are a terrorist group and ISI and Hamid Gul are not. Don’t try to equate them.

    Ever wonder why Modi was not given USA Visa? Because he supports hindu terrorists.

    [Reply]

    vijay kumar Reply:

    The USA now recognises Hamid Gul and ISI as the fountainhead of terror. It is also tryng for extradition of certain ISI personnel and also of Hamid Gul.

    I am just telling you the factual ground level situation

    [Reply]

    Azhar Hussain Reply:

    And where was the USA, when Hamid Gul and ISI, were taking real good care of India’s father-in-law the USSR.

    Just because the USA said, then it si true…Modi is also terrorists because USA said that

    Sunday, October 17, 2010
    Terrorism not linked to Hinduism: RSS chief- Oct 18, 2010,
    Terrorism not linked to Hinduism: RSS chief

    Ramu Bhagwat, TNN, Oct 18, 2010, 01.11am IST

    NAGPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said the “golden opportunity” provided by the Allahabad High Court’s Ayodhya verdict should not be lost and a massive Ram temple be built while castigating the government for raising the “bogey” of Hindu terrorism.

    Speaking at RSS’s annual Dussehra rally here, Bhagwat attacked critics of the judgment that upheld the Hindu claim to a temple saying this was an about-turn on their part. “They shamefully abandoned all concerns. Till 4 pm of September 30, they talked of respecting the court verdict and immediately after, they renewed their efforts to create fear and mistrust in society,” he said.

    While he knocked the Sangh Parivar’s “secular” critics for anticipating a pro-mosque judgment, he said, “Now that the court has endorsed the belief that it was indeed the birthplace of Lord Ram… forgetting the past, let us all come together to build a massive temple at Ayodhya for Lord Ram who represents our national heritage and honour.”

    Bhagwat also made public his view that the matter should be resolved favourably out of court instead of further legal action in Supreme Court. But the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s decision to appeal the HC verdict, which has time barred the Muslim claim, points to certain litigation. The Nirmohi Akhara, one of the litigants awarded one-third of the disputed plot, has also said it will appeal the order.

    Bhagwat’s speech was an all-round critique of the Congress-led UPA with regard to its formulations on terrorism, J&K and Maoism. He had earlier reacted to the Ayodhya verdict saying it should not be seen as a win or a loss while saying it validated a temple. He reiterated the RSS commitment on Sunday to a massive temple rather than a modest one.

    He also took an oblique shot at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s comparison of RSS with SIMI, saying, “We will carry on our good work without bothering for any certificates.”

    Bhagwat’s focus on “Hindu terror” was significant as the Sangh has seen a “conspiracy” to drag it into a terror net. Linking those opposed to a temple at Ayodhya to the attempts to “divide society”, he said, “Due to these tendencies, a dangerous conspiracy is afoot to bring into vogue words like Hindu terror and saffron terror under the pretext that some Hindu individuals were allegedly involved in incidents of terror here and there.”

    Both BJP and RSS have attacked home minister P Chidambaram for his recent references to saffron terror and said the government was making such allegations to cover up its failures to curb terrorism. Perhaps worried about the political fallout of such statements, Congress spokesperson Janardan Dwivedi had said that there was no colour to terrorism which should not be so distinguished.

    BJP president Nitin Gadkari was present at the three-hour function in trademark RSS outfit of a white shirt and oversize khaki shorts as Bhagwat said, “There is a sinister conspiracy to mislead Hindus through a campaign of lies and to defame Hindi saints, temples and organisations.”

    RSS has been perturbed by reports that some members of the Abhinav Bharat bombers had links to the Sangh and Bhagwat argued that Hinduism and terror were contradictory. “There is only one country left in the world on which you can’t put the blame of terrorism and that is India. Terrorism and Hindus, terrorism and saffron, and terrorism and the Sangh are oxymorons,” he said.

    “This (effort to connect the two) is an attempt to weaken the strength of Hindus in India and, at the same time, to appease Muslims,” he said. A handful of incidents involving Hindus were reported and to blame the entire Hindu community was improper and unjust, he added.

    The speech, seen as an indicator of the RSS’s Hindutva agenda and anticipated this time in the context of the Ayodhya verdict, saw Bhagwat referring to the Kashmir crisis about which he said, “The crisis in Kashmir has become serious and complicated since we neglected Baltistan and Gilgit which have become part of Pakistan. Now China is attempting to position its army in these regions.”

    Pointing to different stakeholders in J&K, Bhagwat said, “At the same time, it is imperative on our part to appreciate the feelings, needs and aspirations of various other sections like patriotic Muslims, Gujjar-Bakarwals, Shias, Sikhs and Hindus including Kashmiri Pandits and Buddhists. Displaced Pandits must return to their homes and dignity,” he said.

    Bhagwat said there was no need to talk to separatists and Pakistan-sponsored perpetrators of violence and stone-pelting, He also warned against withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Protection Act. The RSS chief also criticised the government for ignoring the patriotic people in north-eastern states and pandering to the wishes of the separatists and anti-national forces there.

    [Reply]

  • Mumtaz Mir

    Saffron Terrorists for you guys and we are facing the terrorist army in Kashmir

    New Delhi
    4 of 5 accused for Ajmer blast have RSS links
    HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
    Email Author
    New Delhi, October 31, 2010
    First Published: 23:57 IST(31/10/2010)
    Last Updated: 01:56 IST(1/11/2010)
    Share more…
    26 Comments

    Email print
    Senior leader Indresh Kumar is not the only RSS link to the Ajmer blast in October 2007 that killed three persons. Of the five accused named in the chargesheet filed by the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on October 22, four are associated with the RSS. A sixth alleged key conspirator who has
    related stories

    * Probe a conspiracy: RSS
    * RSS leader refuses to be questioned
    * Ajmer blast accused was in touch with RSS spokesman
    * ‘RSS leader provided guidelines on Ajmer blast’
    * ‘BJP defending Kumar shows its close ties with Hindu radicals’

    not been made an accused only because he is dead, Sunil Joshi, also had RSS connections.

    Though his name is mentioned, Kumar is not an accused. He is only named in the context of a secret meeting in October 2005 that discussed the strategy for carrying out the blast.

    The RSS had reacted with great indignation when Kumar’s name was revealed, claiming the ATS investigation was no longer honest but had become a tool for political persecution.

    But according to the chargesheet, among the five accused of murder and conspiracy, four have RSS links — Devendra Gupta, Chandrasekhar Lave, Lokesh Sharma and Sandeep Dange.

    The first three are in jail while Dange — along with the fifth man, Ramji Kalsangre – is absconding.

    Joshi, the chargesheet says, was RSS zila pracharak at Mahu in Madhya Pradesh.

    Gupta initially worked under Joshi as tehsil pracharak of the RSS before being promoted and shifted to Jamtara in Jharkhand as zila pracharak in 2003.

    An Ajmer native, Gupta is accused of procuring the detonators and mobile SIMs used in the blast at the Chishti dargah.

    Lave was an RSS zila sampark pramukh in MP’s Shajapur district. Sharma was also an active RSS worker, claims the chargesheet.

    Dange — an engineering graduate who allegedly prepared the bomb — was an RSS zila pracharak at Shajapur. Kalsangra, a skilled electrician who helped Dange, is the only accused not yet known to have any RSS connection.

    [Reply]

    Mukesh Reply:

    Wah re Mir Sahib. How convenient for you to develop selective amnesia? All RSS people are terrorists and your Geelani’s and Yaseen’s are peaceniks! This facade has been removed longtime back – you just cannot have it both ways – when SAR Geelani is not convicted – legal system is fair – but you are ready to hang RSS guys just because of your madrassa taleem. Yes, I agree all – whether RSS or Hurriyat or SIMI – anybody who indulges in killing people – must be hanged. Do you have the moral courage to say that or you are only after non-believers/kafirs? Wake up Mumtaz Bhai – smell the coffee – if not kahwa – you cannot have it heads I win and tails you lose. You are lucky that it is Indian army in Kashmir and not Pakistani army or the US drones otherwise story would be different ……….. in addition to HT read some pakistani newspapers also to know what is happening to your tribe

    [Reply]

  • http://legosforgirls.info/ Legos for Girls

    Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet. You definitely know how to bring an issue to light and make it important. More people need to read this and understand this side of the story. I cant believe youre not more popular because you definitely have the gift.

    [Reply]

  • vijay kumar

    @Mukesh,

    Dont take the trouble of answering the potings of Mumtaz Mir.

    He is actually a madcap called Azhar Hussain who is a supporter of the ISI, Hamid Gul, suicide bombings and much that is wrong with Pakistan. Why bother answering a madcap who may become a potential suicide bomber one day…

    [Reply]

  • Vinay

    @Mahesh,
    Continuing with discussion from our previous thread. China is buying agricultural land in Africa for grains and palm oil (for bio fuel). It is difficult to consider short term developemental projects in Afghanistan are the only priority of China. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10311752 indicates even Afghanistan has huge potential of mineral wealth. Stephanie Sanok from ISCS ( International Security Programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies) say, he can’t think of extraction of minerals in Afghanistan in the middle of a major military campaign. He also says, “They not only don’t have the infrastructure – road, rail and water – but they don’t have basic laws and regulations that will attract investment.”

    But all these are hurdles for whom? Countries like India, US which have to work in democratic terms. Not for China. The earlier article you referred to show, how most Asian countries feel concerned about China’s rapid growth as super power. It did not mention the exception…Pakistan. Even in the blogs here, some Pak people compare India with China and feel happy with the fact that China is stronger than India.

    One thing is certain; all these factors (First, withdrawal of India from IPI gas pipeline project, Iran willing China to participate in the project. Second, Pakistan handing over control of the Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Occupied Kashmir to China. Third, China grabbing construction work projects in Afghanistan from India and slowly stretching in Afghan land), indicate one thing; China slowly trying to take control of the entire land which is strategically important for its access to the gulf. All these would not have happened if Pakistan was not pally with China. Pak as usual, has invited one more monster to its door after Taliban. Getting encircled by China, just for giving discomfort to India.

    [Reply]

    Mahesh Reply:

    Vinay,
    There are two parts to the “Chinese Conundrum”.
    One part of it is the currency wars countries have and are resorting to in the context of global economic crisis. Another sub-aspect of this is un-ease caused by chinese hunger for natural resources.
    The second part is our own contentions with chines over natural resources and development work (Market) in Asia.
    Both these factors have been complimenting each other towards a conflict buil-up.
    This is what is worrisome.
    Cheers,
    Mahesh.
    p.s.: My hunch is Abundance of resources (specifically, the ones needed for electronic devices batteries) in Afghanistan might be a exaggerated story – perhaps planted for justification of continued U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

    [Reply]

  • Vijay Kumar

    @Vinay,

    I appreciate your posting about Arundhati ROy. It does succintely sums up her actions…

    [Reply]

  • http://www.dna-act.com/ dna

    Very nice information.

    [Reply]

  • http://drdreheadphones.co biggest earthquake in america

    According to one particular idea, the good reason for the invasion of Iraq had next to nothing to do with the terrorism or WMDs. In actuality the key purpose was to keep the supremacy of the US dollar. The US dollar is the worldwide currency right now and each trade and trade of goods needs dollar. It’s the monopoly of the dollar that made The us a super electrical power.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.visaguru.co.uk visaguru

    That is some inspirational stuff. Never knew that opinions could be this varied.

    [Reply]

  • http://%/zzzqtfe23 Cander

    Great…

    love your blog, http://cloudes.manablog.jp/ ,Thanks again….

  • Ramesh Talwani

    SINGHVI SHOW SOME HONESTY IN CONCLUSION.MMSINGH CANNOT BE HONEST IF EVERYONE BELOW HIM IS CORRUPT.
    ONE EX I CAN GIVE WHICH WAS POINTEDOUT BY TN SHESHAN,THAT MMSINGH GAVE GOVERNOR HOUSE SHILLONG AS HIS ADDRESS WHILE FILING AFFIDAVIT FOR NOMINATION TO RAJYA SABHA.
    WHY DONOT YOU ASK NIRA RADIA ,WHOM YOU KNOW WELL.

    [Reply]

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vivek-Gopinath/1505438027 Vivek Gopinath

    Opinion: Agree that it is the presence of MMS and the objective to provide clean governance has brought out the corruption red handed. But the conclusion is untrue. MMS is fighting the ills that “the false Gandhi family” has brought to this country and not knowing whether to defend them or simply be correct and anti-corrupt.

    [Reply]

  • http://twitter.com/anksankur Ankur

    I have no faith in Vir Sanghvi or Vinod Sharma at all…

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    “….and thinks that India can become a truly great nation only after it rids itself of the conflict with Pakistan.”
    The problem with this article is that it failed to mention China’s role. India cannot have a bilateral agreement with Pakistan without Beijing’s approval. At this moment China is a greater threat to India’s security than Pakistan. Either by herself or with the aid of Pakistan, China has boxed in India and needs the friction between Pakistan and India to contain India. If the Indian leaders deal with Pakistan without factoring in China’s wishes, it will lead to failure.

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    If Pakistan cannot be friend of USA, how can it be friend of India.

    [Reply]

  • Abu Ahmed

    Its business, stupid. If Indian agro & industrial products are allowed in Pakistan freely due to the MFN status that both India and Pakistan hae granted each other, it would improve trade. And that would mean more jobs for the jobless on either side. 26/11 will never be forgotten – as the US took more than 10 years to get OBL, I think we too can wait for some more time to hit our terrorists. And this time, the Pakistani people are themselves sick of terrorism – that is why Gilani & the Army wants to do business with India. In any case, we lose nothing. Only the Sangh Parivar would have to search for some other emotional issues to remain relevant in the Hindu psyche.

    [Reply]

    Anonymous Reply:

    I agree. The state of pakistan and its Jihadi groups are allies of India and RSS is the enemy.. Right :)

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    @Zia, ISN’T INDIA SUPPOSED TO BE A SECULAR REPUBLIC, thus religion cannot dictate the state . MUSLIMS CAN COME FROM GUJRAT TO WEST BENGAL , there are plenty og beef on sale in park circus market and entally and anywhere where is a demand .Incidentally in park circus market and even in 90% hindu populated area like KASBA market PORK sells freely.The STATE owned shop used tosell sausages in jodhpur park market in south calcutta.
    I WOULD SAY SALVATION OF INDIA LIES IN EATING BOTH PORK AND BEEF.

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    The author has made at least one grievous factually incorrect statement in this article.

    Whale meat does NOT make up one-quarter of the Japanese diet. In fact, only a tiny fraction of the Japanese population actually consumes whale — as little as 1%.

    This lack of regular consumption also reveals the misleading supposition that there is great cultural significance to whaling in Japan. Jun Morikawa, in his book “Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy”, explains that whaling was only ever a tradition in certain isolated coastal villages, like Taiji.

    At the start of the 20th century, Japanese modern whaling began with the adoption of Norwegian methods, technology, and even Norwegians hired as crew. Powered ships, canon-fired explosive-tipped harpoons, and later factory ships with refrigerated storage were all used for mass production. Japan’s whalers exported whale oil to Western countries for margarine production and fuel.

    It wasn’t until WWII and the post war recovery that whale meat became a significant source of protein nationally. Whale was a substitute meat. As the economy recovered, when Japanese families could afford it, they purchased meat other than whale even when whale was cheaper. Today, if the government did not include whale meat in compulsory school lunches most Japanese children would never know the taste.

    Japan’s whaling continues due to the corrupt influence of entrenched bureaucrats (amakudari) who often leave their government jobs to take high paid positions in the commercial whaling industry they once oversaw, and secured tax funded subsidies for, as public officials.

    [Reply]

  • Abu Ahmed

    Higher class Muslims never eat beef. It is only the weaker classes who prefer to eat beef as it is a cheaper alternative to mutton or chicken. Muslims don’t eat pork, as is well-known. Christians too are not supposed to eat pork as it is forbidden in their bible, but christians being mostly influenced by the West, they do any illegal and immoral act wit impunity.
    In South India, a huge majority of Hindus eat beef, pork, mutton, chicken – in short any non-veg meat is game to them.

    [Reply]

  • Manujsk

    Cow slaughter should be allowed by Hindus as much as painting the Prophet in all vivid colors :) Care to have some fun with colors and imagination, Zia?

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely useless topic. I feel if RSS is crazy, Zia Haq is 100 times more crazier.

    “Passively worship Cow”..I never knew not eating an animal is “passively worship that animal”. I am sure muslims have never eaten a Tiger, does that mean they worship Tiger. What about PIG?

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    I agree with Zia on this. There are many people including many Hindus who eat beef. There should not be any laws to prevent these people from having what they want. I beleive that’s the case in many states. Maybe this is an issue in some states but not in most. Zia should add some numbers in his article. Without numbers, the full picture is not revealed.

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous
  • RajX

    In this article Zia makes some good points and then goes into a communal spiral like most of the arabized do.

    “By subjecting Muslims or others who consume beef to a cow-slaughter ban, are they also being made to passively worship the cow”

    So compulsary shutting down of restaurants during eid fasting period in many muslim countries means nonmuslims in that country are made to worship Arab Allah? Can take the communal nastiness out of the arabized. They just can’t help it. Communalism has become a part of them.

    [Reply]

  • engrich

    IS EATING PORK ALLOWED IN ANY MUSLIM COUNTRIES?

    except saudi arabia it is allowed in every muslim country.

    [Reply]

  • engrich

    : What a pity our idli-sambar, micro-minority, grass-eating papans have killed the world’s most popular game — football.

    Their heart is in the stupid cricket, a game which is neither man nor woman. IPL frauds. Olympics has ranked India at 133, below some unknown islands. What a shame that the Brahminical India is at the bottom in everything — though it is the world’s No.2 in population. But No.1 in bragging, boasting, cheating, manipulating. Shameless fellows.

    The hate-mongering Brahminists starved our robust Muslims and SC/ST/BCs, banned cow slaughter which made them weak and killed their stamina, affecting our sports. Vegetarianism killed our sports which will be proved in the asian Games in which India will eat the dust.

    Brahminists are killing India itself. We have said it repeatedly. A land where milk and honey were once flowing is today blighted beyond recognition

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    This is intellectual fraud of lowest order.
    What has Rushdie written , I have read the book three times , IT IS FAR LESS SACRELIGIOUS THAN HUSSAIN PAINTING SARASWATI NUDE.
    How about a UN RESOULTION against the person who writes such demeaning and villifying words
    The Jews and Christians say: ‘We are the children of God and His loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins?” (Surah 5:18)

    “Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends.” (Surah 5:51)

    “The God will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you ever say to mankind ‘Worship me and my mother as gods besides God?’ ‘Glory to You, ‘he will answer, ‘how could I ever say that to which I have no right?” (Surah 5:114-)

    “Believers, when you encounter the infidels on the march, do not turn your backs to them in flight. If anyone on that day turns his back to them, except it be for tactical reasons…he shall incur the wrath of God and Hell shall be his home…” (Surah 8:12-)

    “Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme.” (Surah 8:36-)
    AND HOW ABOUT FATWA AGAINST MARLOWE , who burns KORAN in his play TAMBURLANE , HERE ARE THE LINES
    Tamburlaine: Now, Casane, where’s the Turkish Alcoran, And all the heaps of superstitious books Found in
    the temples of that Mahomet Whom I have thought a god? They shall be burnt . . .

    . . . In vain, I see, men worship Mahomet.

    My sword hath sent millions of Turks to hell, Slew all his priests, his kinsmen, and his friends, And yet I live untouch’d by Mahomet.

    There is a God, full of revenging wrath, From whom the thunder and the lightning breaks, Whose scourge I am, and him will I obey.

    So Casane; fling them in the fire.

    (They burn the books.)

    Now, Mahomet, if thou have any power, Come down thyself and work a miracle.

    Thou art not worthy to be worshipped That suffers flames of fire to burn the writ Wherein the sum of thy religion rests . .
    IF SOMEBODY WRITES Newton was a horse . What should we do , issue Fatwa , or ignore knowing that the guy is revealing his ignorance.
    ONLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT SURE OF THE FOUNDATION . OF THEIR ARGUMENT , WILL RESORT TO VIOLENCE.
    Holocaust denying is not an offence in India , NOR SHOULD IT BE , JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS DENYING IT , DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE.
    just calling Newton a horse wont make newton a horse
    NATURE IS FREE ,SO SHOULD BE HOMO SAPIENS

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    This is intellectual fraud of lowest order.
    What has Rushdie written , I have read the book three times , IT IS FAR LESS SACRELIGIOUS THAN HUSSAIN PAINTING SARASWATI NUDE.
    How about a UN RESOULTION against the person who writes such demeaning and villifying words
    The Jews and Christians say: ‘We are the children of God and His loved ones.’ Say: ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins?” (Surah 5:18)

    “Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends.” (Surah 5:51)

    “The God will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you ever say to mankind ‘Worship me and my mother as gods besides God?’ ‘Glory to You, ‘he will answer, ‘how could I ever say that to which I have no right?” (Surah 5:114-)

    “Believers, when you encounter the infidels on the march, do not turn your backs to them in flight. If anyone on that day turns his back to them, except it be for tactical reasons…he shall incur the wrath of God and Hell shall be his home…” (Surah 8:12-)

    “Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God’s religion shall reign supreme.” (Surah 8:36-)
    AND HOW ABOUT FATWA AGAINST MARLOWE , who burns KORAN in his play TAMBURLANE , HERE ARE THE LINES
    Tamburlaine: Now, Casane, where’s the Turkish Alcoran, And all the heaps of superstitious books Found in
    the temples of that Mahomet Whom I have thought a god? They shall be burnt . . .

    . . . In vain, I see, men worship Mahomet.

    My sword hath sent millions of Turks to hell, Slew all his priests, his kinsmen, and his friends, And yet I live untouch’d by Mahomet.

    There is a God, full of revenging wrath, From whom the thunder and the lightning breaks, Whose scourge I am, and him will I obey.

    So Casane; fling them in the fire.

    (They burn the books.)

    Now, Mahomet, if thou have any power, Come down thyself and work a miracle.

    Thou art not worthy to be worshipped That suffers flames of fire to burn the writ Wherein the sum of thy religion rests . .
    IF SOMEBODY WRITES Newton was a horse . What should we do , issue Fatwa , or ignore knowing that the guy is revealing his ignorance.
    ONLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT SURE OF THE FOUNDATION . OF THEIR ARGUMENT , WILL RESORT TO VIOLENCE.
    Holocaust denying is not an offence in India , NOR SHOULD IT BE , JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS DENYING IT , DOESN’T MAKE IT TRUE.
    just calling Newton a horse wont make newton a horse
    NATURE IS FREE ,SO SHOULD BE HOMO SAPIENS

    [Reply]

  • Kumars1

    A closet mullah has spoken!

    [Reply]

  • http://twitter.com/FizzyButtons Barstool

    Every time a muslim puts pen to paper they reveal their God. Vile, evil and psychopathically schizophrenic, why should anyone care what they think? Well, they have to, mostly from fear of what they will do next. Unfortunately science suggests that the most rabid followers of this death cult are genetically predisposed to be religious and violent to boot. As the following posts may illustrate.

    [Reply]

  • Abu Ahmed

    Zia, I totally support your view as expressed here, and I quote you:
    For freedom to be downright offensive to be upheld as a universal right, it must be uniformly applied and accepted. This would make it impossible for governments to criminalise “online jihad” and “zealots” Rushdie hates. It would also militate against many of the Western world’s settled views, such as what constitutes libel. It could, for instance, also make a case for the right to Holocaust denial. Just about anything cannot pass as free speech. Or we might have to contend with Khomeini’s very speech that pronounced the death sentence on Rushdie.
    If you don’t want to be offended, then don’t offend others – give respect, take respect, as the cliche goes.

    [Reply]

    RajX Reply:

    The model you are suggesting here has many names. Two well known ones are called fascism and totalitarianism. There is no freedom of speech if there is no freedom to offend. If you go by your rules, no one should talk about casteism since that would “offend” some. Insecure communities which are intrinsically structured not to evolve by introducing many taboos into their peoples minds are a threat to civilization.

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    When muslims say following don’t they abuse freedom of speech?
    1. There is no god but allah.
    2. Worshipping Idol is sinful.
    3. All non-muslims are enemies of Islam.
    4. In muslim majority country, non-muslims are forced to follow muslim $hit like not eating openly during Ramzan.

    There are thousand other things that muslims do offending others but we tolerate it.

    [Reply]

  • Psaxe

    Zia,
    You are an extremist Islamist radical, and a moron, without being aware of it.

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    Maybe Zia thinks that blasphemy laws are “reasonable restrictions” on people like Rushdie. Zia sounds more of a zealot than a thoughtful person. He is basically making the crude point that none can theorize or even create fiction based on Islamic holy cows which will offend his brothers. If you do that in the name of freedom of speech, you are an absolutist and you are the same as the people who put death fatwas on you. Zia should write as a writer and not as a “Muslim” writer. Attaching the name of a religion to ones choosen field in life is rather restricting and actually dangerous in some cases. An example is some “Muslim” doctors not washing their hands with alcohol because they are “Muslim” and putting their patients at risk.

    [Reply]

  • Anonymous

    NO YOU HAVE NOT OFFENDED, YOU HAVE SPOKEN WHAT MOST HINDUS SPEAK ABOUT ALL THE TIME,
    Its time MUSLIMS DID THE SAME WITHOUT FEAR OF FATWA AND SUICIDE BOMBERS

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    I am afraid that we are actually implementing blasphemy laws through the backdoor. Nothing else can explain all these bans, threats and fatwas.

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    Zia is more dangerous than zaid hamid. No media outlet in pakistan which values its credibility would touch zaid hamid with a six foot pole. But Zia is a columnist for a major india national media outlet like HT. Pak english media is more responsible than ours.

    [Reply]

  • engrich

    in india freedom of speech has some restriction.

    [Reply]

    RajX Reply:

    Unfortunately true because of people like you and bal thackray.

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    Tejinder, what can be morre indecent than calling a Arab pedophile who married a 9 year old child as a messenger of god? What can be more indecent than bowing towards primitive Arabia and demeaning yourself five time a day? What can be more indecent than killing people because they are not arabized? What can be more indecent than betraying your own ancestors by bowing down to the people who genocides them?

    [Reply]

  • RajX

    Persian is not Islamic. It’s Persian. It will be cleansed of the ffecta of arabization. The Americans will start the process.

    [Reply]

    engrich Reply:

    iran is islamist.arabia has produced scientists and philosophers which u people cannot even imagine.read ibn sina and ibn rush on encylopedia.jewish run anti-muslim information media.

    [Reply]

  • engrich

    vijay 20%of muslims of india consider him as his father.they will break his a$$ wherever they find him.so better to come and go india silently without being noticed.international zoinists published this stupid book hindu zoinists provided propaganda by banning it.

    [Reply]

  • Plumbline

    God does not dwell in buildings made by man. But He wants to dwell in YOU.

    One simple prayer made the difference for me.

    When we experience God personally, as I did about 34 years ago. Alone in my
    apartment I felt Jesus speaking to my heart. I did not grow up in a christian
    home and was a rebel, almost dying in a motorcycle accident when I was 17. I had
    a revelation that turned my life around. I had a strange desire to go to church.
    Imagine that. I had an old Bible in my home given to me as a baby dedication.
    Never had read it. When I had tried a few times in my life, I could never
    understand it. When I started to read it after hearing God speak to me, saying,
    give me your life, and I will make it what it should be, I started to understand
    the Bible. It made sense, like nothing else in this world. It explained where
    evil came from, the fall of mankind, their is a devil at work in the world,
    blinding people to the light of Jesus Christ. It explained about Israel and why
    they are persecuted, and how the messiah was to come from Israel, born
    of a
    virgin, God walking the earth as a man. Then to die in our place on a cruel
    cross, bearing our sins upon himself. Then rising from the dead, to enter heaven
    as our Eternal High Priest, ever living to make intercession for us. He is
    coming back as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, to reign upon this earth as King
    of Kings, and Lord of Lords. You can have a place in his kingdom, if
    you ask Jesus Christ into your heart. You can be born again of His Holy Spirit
    and recieve the Gift of Eternal Life. Then start reading the New Testament.

    [Reply]

  • Kumars1

    Falling asleep zzzzzzzzz

    [Reply]