Ghulam Nabi Azad made a statement a few days back justifying the number of rapes committed by “security forces” in Kashmir. I was too angry to write. I read something from GK today that somehow vents out some of that anger that I feel.. so I quote it for you to read and think: Rapes:…
Category: Views on News
The Greater Kashmir Problem.
What exactly is wrong with Greater Kashmir? I am unable to understand. In spite of the fact that it is such a widely read Kashmiri newspaper, the standards they maintain really make one think — what is wrong with them. I am not talking of the fact that the news paper is practically filled with…
Kill Rushdie.
Killing Rushdie is something that should have been done a long time back. Simple as that. He will die when he has to die. He can go and shoot himself and it would be perfect. But Rushdie doesn’t bother me. He is a pathetic blob of protoplasm that should just evaporate from this planet. What…
Enduring Freedom?
I find the idea of enduring freedom very confusing. Freedom isn’t anything that we ‘endure’ or bear with… it is supposed to be the one thing that we all wish for. But then.. to think of it.. one would have to endure ‘freedom’ if the freedom is not your’s .. but someone else’s and …..
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
That is the name! And this guys goes about preaching ‘peace’ to the world. And what place is in need of peace more than Kashmir? So Sri Sri (Why twice?) Ravi Shankar, decides to walk in to the vale — and address — not exactly the common masses who walk on the dusty roads —…
History relived!
The amazing things about history is that it repeats itself. The saddening thing is that in Kashmir the only history oft repeated is the that which causes distress for the masses. “Begar” or forced labour introduced by the Dogras had on the surface left us alone. But the fact remains that forced unpaid labour exists…
Democracy ahoy!
Democracy… Freedom of expression… Things that India claims to have and Indians take pride in. (Image from Greater Kashmir) Geelani was scheduled to address a press conference in connection with the recent arrest of four of his senior colleagues under Public Safety Act (PSA) and Judicial custody of 13 others. The Central Reserve Police Force…
Kashmir on protest…
The whole of Kashmir is protesting. And this time round it isnt ‘azadi’ in its specific socio-political context that Kashmiris are asking for, but it ranges from things like polluted roads to getting jobs. Suddenly there seems to be a surge in the number of demonstrations that are done daily. The electropathy graduates (some branch…
To mourn or not?
Boris Yeltsin is dead. Finally.(If I may be allowed to add.) I read the news. And I go back a few years in time and remember my literature class… The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar) And…
Round table
Question:
Why are conferences on ‘critical’ and ‘serious’ issue discussed on a round table?