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Insurgency vs. State Power (Kashmiri Muslim Youth to Introspect) Lalit K Kaul We as a single community need to retrospect on what has been going on for last thirty years and also individually introspect on the same.   Those who coined the slogans ‘ ھم کیا چاہتے آزادی हम क्या चाहते आज़ादी’ and ‘ کشمیر بنےگا پاکستان कश्मीर बनेगा पाकिस्तान ’ were never in the forefront of the so called movement because its originators, masters, commanders and dictators were and continue to be in Pakistan. The second line of leadership (essentially mere executers of the commands from across the border) stayed safe in their homes, mohalla and mosque while instigating the youth to pick up arms against the Indian State to fight the proxy war for Pakistan. Under Operation Topac of Zia Ul Haq (President of Pakistan) the preparations for armed revolt (insurgency) against India (to avenge Bangladesh) had been going on for long only to explode prematurely on the scene in 1990. The enthusiasts became e...

Hunt Kill and Newborn (Vicious Cycle has to stop)                                                                                                                                      Lalit K Kaul The cycle of hunting and eliminating terrorists and simultaneous birth of new breed of terrorists has been going on for long. Influx from a...

The Irrelevance of Article 370 and the UN Resolution                                                                                                   Lalit K Kaul The Genesis: The erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state was a princely state at the time of the independence of India and emergence of Pakistan, in the year 1947. All the princely states (around 547 in number) were given the option of choosing to 1) accede to India, 2) accede to Pakistan and 3) remain an independent and sovereign state. While nearly all decided to accede to the India Union, the ruler of erstwhile princely state of J&K, Maharaja Hari Singh, remained indecisive insofar as accession to India or Pakistan was concerned, as he was more inclined to have it as an ...

What are my coordinates? With due apologies to all the Indians and with all the courage at my command , I, A Kashmir Pandit, has been trying to figure out my nationality since 1990. Can somebody clarify to me as to Why I should consider myself an Indian? I , a Kashmiri Pandit , lived through all the hardships economic and emotional ; deprived of my religious places. I was never a burden on the Indian ex chequer because I never asked ( or was offered) any special favours; I studied on my own; did business on my own; rose to discharge highest responsibilities in India; if I was a beggar I was / am on my own ; If a millionaire , yet on my own. Yet I was transformed in to a slum dweller overnight at the mercy of footpaths and crowded temples. Nobody , no political party, no justice yielding mechanism cared for me. Even the SC of India kicked me out of the domain of justice. I survived, but I would have survived anywhere in t...

Statehood versus Union Territory (The Veterans of Political Chicanery are at it once again) Lalit K Kaul For some, politics is only about sloganeering and keeping the society on the boil for reasons that are an antithesis to the well being and progress of the constituencies these kinds of politicians claim to represent. Kashmiri politicians fall in this category. Exploiting Emotions on False Issues: It should be an art of very high calibre to keep a dead horse alive only to keep the pot of emotions of the locals boiling and to perpetually keep the accession of J&K to India as questionable. They all swore by Article 370 all the years of their existence and threatened a huge uprising of the masses if the Article was tempered with. If Article 370 was a political agreement between the erstwhile J&K state and the Union of India, then it ceased to exist in 1...

The Right to Self Determination (Is Nobody’s Exclusive Right)                                                                                                                                Lalit K Kaul A heterogeneous society like the one that existed in the erstwhile J&K state/ now exists in the UT of J&K, is a collage comprising multiple ethnicities, ...

Life without conditions: Unrealizable dream                                                                                                                                                                Lalit K ...