[Reader-list] The Deception of the Indian Liberal Discourse on Kashmir

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Mani
 
You are a typical example from such people who's worldview is restricted to interpreting everything around them through the dogma that they subscribe to. In this you are no better than the worst examples of religious fundamentalists/extremists.
 
Use your brains.
 
If 'corporate interests' had any significant role in the Kashmir imbroglio, would benefiting from 'corporates' be better served by separation from India or being a part of India? Would an 'independent' Kashmir or Kashmir integrated into (a near bankrupt) Pakistan provide more from 'corporate interests' or do Indian Corporates have deeper pockets for doling out money?
 
I might be in total disagreement with the 'movement' in Kashmir for separation from India but I would be a fool and anyone would be a fool not to recognise the foundations of those political aspirations as being similar to what led to the 1947 partition.  
 
And you are being a fool Mani.
 
You asked " is the whole of J&K burning or is it just a few locations?" In the answer to that question lies the dismissal of your 'corporate interests' theory. You obviously know very little about J&K
 
What I mentioned as " the foundations of those political aspirations as being similar to what led to the 1947 partition", are primarily confined to Kashmir Valley and that is why only Kashmir Valley is burning. 
 
In my last mail I had written that I should not be wasting my time on you but you are providing amusement. It is interesting to see to what limits idiocies will be mouthed.
 
Kshmendra 
 
 

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:


From: A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Deception of the Indian Liberal Discourse on Kashmir
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11:16 PM


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can you lay off from that propagandist note of "the right-wing media". I am a Kashmiri and not some media-stooge.
>
> Since you claim to know a lot about 'the rise of separatist movements in Kashmir' and 'the
> motives of those who have started them in the first place' will you educate us on what are the "corporate interests" of the "Leaders of these political parties" who according to you "are not communal or anti-national duds" but "drown their corporate interests with communal and nationalist/anti-nationalist passion."
>

What I meant to say was that the same old Pakistani and other
interests in Kashmir have become integrated /diluted with corporate
interests. The funding sources of the Hurriyat include a wide spectrum
of corporates and not necessarily from abroad. You should be knowing
at least some of the links. Even real estate developers in Jammu pay
them.

J&K has not escaped the liberalisation policies of successive Central
Govts since the 90s, though Government spending (or promised to) in
the state has been relatively more (according to official statistics)
or rather has been forced to. There is plenty of unemployment in the
capital itself for enough unrest.

If you think that religious fundamentalism and Pakistan are the main
causes... then it is probably not so... is the whole of J&K burning or
is it just a few locations? There is plenty of monetary profit in the
politics industry  for all the right-wing parties involved. Nowadays
these people think in clear investment-return terms. All this of
course means that the real material concerns of the majority may never
be addressed.

You  should think more before jumping to conclusions.


Best

A. Mani



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A. Mani
ASL, CLC,  AMS, CMS
http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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