The Kashmir Files – Must watch movie for every Indian

Posted under Politics on March 17th, 2022 by

So I Watched #TheKashmirFiles the last weekend. I have been anxiously following the development of Kashmir files since the teaser release. Although Vivek Agnihotri had proven with “The Tashkent Files”[1]https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/the-tashkent-files/0-0-73415 that he is not a typical Bollywood character, I was still skeptical.
Why was I being skeptical? (more…)

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↑1 https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/the-tashkent-files/0-0-73415

India’s political irony!

Posted under Politics on March 10th, 2015 by

Today’s day was full of ironies.

Congress, CPI, CPM, Trinmool Congress staged walkout in the Parliament because of BJP’s state and center Govts. inability to stop release of Masrat Alam, a Kashmiri terrorist. I am forced to recall the day when all of these parties brought shame to the Indian Parliament when during Amarnath Land agitation all these parties paraded their MPs in front of Kashmiri muslim seperatists. It was surprising that those MPs didn’t die out of shame the way they were treated by the seperatists at that time. Top that with the behaviour of that time’s Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who personally called a known terrorist Yasin Malik, and requested him to break his fasting assuring him that all his demands will be taken care of! Link. The Prime Minister of a country calls on a terrorist who has confessed to killing Four unarmed Indian Air Force personnel, where does this happen! Where in the world does the head of a nation calls on a terrorist who has killed country’s men!

Another irony of today was Masrat Alam, the terrorist, asking press not to politicize the issue of his release! Here is man accused of murder, rioting, sedition, provoking people to fight against Indian occupation, etc, etc. And, you are not supposed to politicize his release!

On a side note, I am not happy with our Prime Minister in invoking Shyama Prasad Mukherjee’s sacrifice. Mukherjee laid down his life for a cause, and the current or previous BJP’s govts have done nothing for the cause for which Mukherjee was murdered in a Kashmiri jail.

Assertive Prime Minister!

Posted under Politics on September 9th, 2010 by
Did I hear it right! Assertive Prime Minister? Assertive Dr. Manmohan Singh? Ok.. let us first know what “assertiveness” means. As per the The Free Dictionary being “Assertive” means “Inclined to bold or confident assertion;aggressively self-assured”. So what was our dear Prime Minister “assertive” about. He was “assertive” about the thing that he can not “Shut up” his cabinet. So he is “confident” that he can not handle people who he claims to head.
On the Chinese front he says that “we” need to engage Pakistan because he has failed to counter China on Indian terms (Makes me feel once again that why are we Indians so docile, all the time.. everytime!). So our Prime Minister is “confident” that he can neither handle China nor Pakistan on Indian terms. Crux of the matter… our Prime minister is confident that he is capable of doing nothing. He has failed on Kashmir and he has failed on naxalism. In Delhi the Congress(Indira) Government says that the Naxalism is the biggest threat to national security while the cabinet minister Mamta Banerjee addresses people with PCPA (People’s Committee against Police Atrocities) “managing” the rally and the congress (Indira) “Prince” Rahul Gandhi addressing a rally in Orissa with Maoist supporters standing beside him.
I think Indians should stop getting themselves fooled by the “secular” talk of Congress(Indira), the party, whose leader, after assassination of Indira Gandhi justified the killings of Sikhs and in whose rule 5 Lakh Hindus were forced out of Kashmir. What can you expect from a party whose “assertive” Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh calls in and pleaded to Yasin Malik( a former terrorist and cadre of Jammu & Kashmir Liberation front) to break his fast during the Amarnath Land dispute.

Threatning letters of Kashmir

Posted under Kashmir on August 21st, 2010 by
The NEWS channels are abuzz with the letters asking Sikhs in Kashmir to either join “aazidi” movement and embrace Islam or leave Kashmir. No one in India can resonate with the chilling fear these Sikhs would have felt but for Kashmiri Hindus who went through this trauma in 1989-90. I was around eight years old when the shrill voice of loudspeakers of every mosque in Kashmir asked Kashmiri Hindus to embrace Islam or leave valley. I had already left Kashmir when a letter had arrived at my maternal home announcing that every young member in the family would be butchered if they do not leave Kashmir.
Unfortunately for us (Kashmiri Hindus), there was no media to take up the issue of what was happening to Hindus in Kashmir. Doordarshan was busy in propagating “secular” politics of the Congress(Indira) kind. While minorities where being butchered, slaughtered, disgraced and forced to leave Kashmir from every corner, the conscience of India was fast asleep in secular slumber. Unfortunately for us, Kashmiriyat died a tragic death that year.
In the years to come I would hear a lot of hair raising and spine chilling tales of absolute brutishness committed by the majority on the largest minority in Kashmir. Like, when one Kashmiri Hindu youth was shot in the knees and elbows and left to bleed in the middle of road while the “majority” entertained themselves at the death of an unarmed man. The terrorists left the man bleeding and went to drink milk in the nearby dairy shop. The man wailed and criedfor help but no one bothered. He kept bleeding until the “aazidi” seeking Kashmiri youths finished their milk came back and pumped bullets into his body to finish of the work. Needless to say, there were no protests and no agitations. Nothing mattered, because only a “Pandit” had died.
The attempt of a Kashmiri Hindu man to conceal himself in a traditional rice drum failed when these mujaheddin pumped the bullets from their AK-47 right into the rice drum. When his wailing widow asked why were they leaving her alive, the chilling answer was – “So that you can mourn his death for life”.
How much will you understand the fear of a young mother who was ready to jump off the second floor of her home with her two little daughters just to save her family from being disgraced by a mob of mad aazidi seeking hooligans who were about to break into her home…
No one heard Kashmiri Hindus then… no one will ever hear us, because “unfortunately” we do not make a vote bank. Today, Kashmiri Hindus are branded as traitors by Muslims in Kashmir because we did not support the aazidi movement. Indians will do everything and will fight to seek justice for the victims of Gujarat and Kandhamal riots, but no one will ever bother about Kashmiri Hindus, because fighting for the justice of Hindus in India is outright communal. Fighting for Kashmiri Hindus means going against the “secular” Muslims in Kashmir. Those “seculars” whose cry always has been “jeeve jeeve Paskistan, nanga bhookha Hindustan”.
Today (21th August 2010), Times NOW called a popular Kashmiri Hindu activist Aditya Raj Kaul as a panelist debating threats to Kashmiri Sikhs. But from the word go gagged him. WHY? Just because no one wants to shatter the sweet dream of “Secular” Kashmir. A dream that has already died decades ago. If people want to live in dreams, they can… But the real hard fact is – The fight for Kashmir is deeply deeply communal. The communities in Kashmir are divided… Today’s Kashmir is Kashmir where the “majority” is brandishing unashamedly its brute power and the minority is lip locked in fear, while “secular” Indians are sleeping over their conscience.
Leave alone Kashmiriyat, even Insaaniyat has died a dog’s death in Kashmir.

My Lost Home in Kashmir…

Posted under Kashmir on May 9th, 2010 by

Video Produced by: Deepak Ganju Images: Veer Munshi & Deepak Ganju Song: Arti Tiku Kaul See at shehjar Magazine at: http://www.shehjar.com/list/94/840/1.html Each image of Kashmiri Hindu House is stark, plain-spoken, without embellishment. There is no annotati ve manipulati on of these images, no theatricality, no vein of melodrama, no overtly elegiac air, no demand for sympathy. There they stand, in our line of sight: ruins, monuments, memorials. This is testimony to the unforgiving march of history, which takes no prisoners. ‘Ranjit Hoskote’
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