Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy faces the outrageous threat of arrest by Indian Police for simply telling the truth that Kashmir is not part of India.
Roy faces believe it or not sedition charges if Police carry out their threat to arrest her which as she quite rightly says is simply designed to try and silence those who acknowledge India's torture and abuse on Kashmiri's who no longer wish to be associated with the so called biggest democracy in the world.
India should be ashamed, some of us considered it a mature democracy which sadly now appears to be descending into a dark abyss of oppression in Kashmir against a people who one day will win their freedom.
MONOTONE CRUSH
1 day ago
Arundhati Roy is mad!!! She is supporting Maoists (naxalits killing innocent villages), marxists (china supporters), Khalistani militants, Kasmiri militants...in short all people who are trying to divide India. We indians simply believe that either she is an agent of China or suffering from Attention seeking syndrome, please ignore her. A failed Architect from SPA-Delhi, trying to fail the nation....
ReplyDeleteLets compare Pakistan's and India's track record in Kashmir:
ReplyDeletePakistan claims it has always "stood by" Kashmir, as against the "brutality" of the Indian security forces in the Indian side of Kashmir: Pakistan
Pakistan in Kashmir:
a) Pakistan has carved out the Northern Areas (now called Gilgit-Baltistan, almost 72,971 Sq km) from Kashmir into a separate administrative and political unit. This area, which was part of the undivided Kashmir at the time of independence, has been 'annexed' by Pakistan, as it were, and separated from Kashmir.
b) In 1963, Pakistan illegally ceded 5,800 sq km in the Trans-Karakoram Tract to China. The Tract was part of the original state of Jammu and Kashmir.
c) Pakistan actively encourages "other people" to settle in PoK and have even allowed the Chinese a huge presence in Gilgit-Baltistan, ostensibly for developing the infrastructure of the region.
In contrast, India in Kashmir:
a) Territorially, the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is the same entity that existed in 1947, except for the portions gobbled-up by Pakistan/China.
b) The Freedom House Report, 2010, on the level of 'freedom' in PoK characterised it as "not free', while the Indian side of Kashmir was defined as "partly free".
d) No non-Kashmiri can buy as much as an inch of land in the state of Jammu & Kashmir. There has been no attempt by India to change the demographics or the state's ethnic character. The only demographic change that has happened in the state has been the "ethnic cleansing" of the Kashmiri pundits from the Valley. A mass exodus which has largely been ignored by the media and the powers-that-be.
And I am not even CONSIDERING the state sponsored terrorism into Kashmir that Pakistan has been inflicting in Kashmir, right since 1947 when it invaded Kashmir. The very REASON why military is there in the first place is beacause the State was in infested with terrorists till a few years ago, who terrorised and threatened with the civilians (when not slaugtering them) and suppressed and attacked other minority groups forcing them out of Kashmir, their home for generations. If the army is present in Kashmir and it is causing strife, it has only Pakistan to thank for.
And the idea of azadi for Kashmir is such an illusion, simply because it is infantile to think that Pakistan, after having invested its sweat and blood in Kashmir for the past 60 years (in fact, Kashmir issue is used as tool to incite communal passions in Pakistan) will allow Kashmir as much as an iota of freedom. And it wont be long before Kashmir goes the Pakistan way, a failed, rogue state.
So are Pak Kashmiris struggling for freedom from Pakistan in a similar fashion to Kashmiris whose land is occupied by India?
ReplyDeleteHow about the diaspora situation, who are less prone to intimidation, where most of UK Pakistanis are in fact Kashmiri?
With Pakistani terrorists having made their cozy home in Kashmir in India, colluding and inciting violence, I don't know if the "struggle for freedom" is genuinelty that. People of Kashmir have grievances, definitely, and Indian govt. will address those wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Pakistan should focus on putting its own house in order.
what great does it do if she wins bookers prize? A crap movie like slumdog millionaire won oscar. A delusionist like mother teresa won Nobel peace prize. Bull shit this Arundhati roy's comments. She has no knowledge on any subject. She violated eco regions in india. She is totally a crap.
ReplyDeleteWell Done Arundhati, the carefully constructed lies about India being the largest democracy are put to rest when the people of Kashmir are asked.
ReplyDeleteAfter the arrest of osama in pak it is clear who houses terrorists. I am surprised there are folks in kashmir who think moving to pakistan is a better idea.. unless offcourse they have plans of throwing out all the minorities or make them pay jizya.
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