Democratic Process

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Vol. 16, No: 5,6 (cid:132)June, 2011 (cid:132)Pages 20 Price Rs. 20/-
COVER STORY
JAMMU & KASHMIR
(cid:132)EDITORIAL Democratic Process: Conversion
Deny the Separatists the
support within India........Pg 3
(cid:132)GUEST COLUMN into a Subversive Space
Are Radicalized Hindus more
dangerous than LeT..........Pg 4
(cid:132)OPINION
Ramlila Maidan: would galvanize the interna- India.” Prime Minister’s Chairman Sayed Ali Shah
tional opinion in favour of statement underlined the Geelani said Egypt like revo-
Sonia Maino Gandhi’s
their objectives. They hope and confidence of a lution is possible in Kashmir.
GESTAPOProject...............Pg 5 believed that the public out- rational being but could not He said, “This is a blatant
cry would force President hide the nervousness and lie. By muzzling voice of
(cid:132)TUMULTUOUS VALLEY Obama who was scheduled to apprehension which has Kashmiris through brute
visit India to exert more beset his own government in force, India can’t claim victo-
PC’s Indian Geelani...........Pg 7
pressures on Government of the Centre and the ruling ry. World will see one day
India to come to terms with alliance in the state of there will be a bigger revolu-
(cid:132)MEDIA SCAN the separatists and Jammu and Kashmir. “I tion in Kashmir than Egypt
Roadmap for Kashmir-the Pakistan. They also hoped hope summer this year will and other uprisings.” The
that Indian political consen- be peaceful… I have no moralizing by Geelani
path not trodden.............Pg 8
sus on Kashmir will be fur- power to predict the future. I notwithstanding, the sepa-
ther weakened to resist pres- can only say that there are ratists in the valley over the
(cid:132)THE PLACE VALUE
sures for change of status continuous efforts on our years have demonstrated the
Lalded Consciousness.......Pg 9 quo in Kashmir in favour of part to ensure that there is capability of mobilizing pub-
By Dr Ajay Chrungoo
the separatists. no repeat of summer unrest lic in the streets and creating
(cid:132)BOOK REVIEW After the happenings in in 2011,” has been the a siege on the local govern-
Dr Ajay Chrungoo Egypt and elsewhere in the refrain of the Chief Minister ment. The mobilizations dur-
Thoughts about
ing the summer of 2010 were
Homeland......................Pg 11 TTHHEE developments in not as huge as during the
the Middle East have
Amaranth land row or vari-
certainly created an
(cid:132)CONCERN ous marches conducted earli-
impact in Jammu and
Indeed Sad....................Pg 11 er to Chrar-i-Sharief or
Kashmir which witnessed a
United Nations Military
disturbed last summer. The
Observers office in the out
(cid:132)YOUTH COLUMN happenings in Egypt and
skirts of Srinagar city in
The Exile Continues........Pg 12 elsewhere have almost evap- Kashmir.
orated the public demoraliza-
The PDP leader Miss
tion in Kashmir valley that
(cid:132)HERITAGE Mehbooba Mufti whose polit-
had set in after the failed
ical party has received more
Prospects of Heritage ‘Quit Kashmir’ campaign
than generous support from
in Jammu.......................Pg 13 and once again created a
both the Vajpayee led NDA
hope amongst the rank and
coalition and subsequently
(cid:132)ASTROLOGY file of the separatists that by the present Manmohan
their tactics on the street
Want to own a Singh led UPA coalition at
may bear fruits in the near
the Centre commented on
House.............................Pg 14 future.
AKashmiri Pandit house at Nagam, Kashmir. the uprising in Egypt and
The ‘Quit Kashmir’ cam-
Said, “We congratulate the
(cid:132)PHILOSOPHY paign relied on a semi violent people of Egypt on their suc-
mass mobilization and non-
Philosophy- Middle East the Prime of the state Sh. Omar cess and for achieving the
cooperation methodology
Minister of India tried to Abdullah. More conspicuous goal in peaceful manner…. It
A synoptic view-III..........Pg 15 resorting to sustained stone
assure the nation that, is however the disconnect is necessary to mention
pelting assaults on police
“whatever happens in the between the perceptions of Egypt because they were
(cid:132)RITUALS and paramilitary forces, har-
Gulf or in West Asia includ- the Prime Minister and the fighting for democracy and
tals and protest demonstra-
Maha Shivratri- ing the countries mentioned ( perceptions of the people in we are fighting a war in spite
tions to bring the public life
Revisting Kashmir-XIII....Pg 16 Egypt ) is a matter of concern Kashmir valley. of democracy.” She did not
and the government func-
to us…. replication of such Perceptions in the valley hesitate to compare the last
tioning to a standstill. It is
events is not possible in summer’s unrest in Kashmir
(cid:132)INSIDE PAKISTAN being described as a non-vio- Merely a day after Prime
India, because India is a valley with the uprising in
Noor Ki Shaadi................Pg 17 lent transformation of an functioning democracy…. Minister Manmohan Singh Egypt and said, “Lakhs of
armed uprising. said that the political devel-
There is no question that people had thronged the
The campaigners were opments in Egypt cannot be
(cid:132)CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS things that have happened in roads in Cairo, but nobody
driven by a hope that the replicated in Jammu and
Egypt and other Arab coun-
.................................Pg 18, 19 sustained mobilizations Kashmir, the Hurriyat (G) (Contd. on Page 6)
tries can be replicated in
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June 2011
1. Sh. Shamboo Nath Dhar S/o Late Prasad Ram Dhar R/o rently putting up at 602, Technology Apparts. Patpar 59. Smt. Santosh Koul W/o Sh. Avtar Krishan Koul resident
74-Ashok Nagar Canal Jammu. 14/4/2010 Gunj Delhi, Guraon. 23/4/2010. of H.No: 734, Sector-22, Pocket-B, Gurgoan Haryana.
2. Smt. Somawati Bhat W/o Late Kashi Nath Bhat of 31. Smt. Rani Pandita W/o Late Sh. Prithvi Nath Pandita of 3/5/2010
Krankshowan Sopore Kmr; presently residing at Qtr. No: Sahipora Kupwara Kmr; presently resident of Jt-8, TRT, 60. Smt. Vidyawati Gassi W/o Late Sh. Laxmi Nath Gassi
61, Nagrota Camp (Railway, Phase) Jammu. 14/4/2010 Camp Opposit FCI Toll Post Nagrota, Jammu. 24/4/2010 originally R/o Mattan Kmr; presently resident of
3. Sh. Kaka Ji Bhat S/o Late Pt. Narayan Nath Bhat R/o 32. Sh. Som Nath Razdan S/o Late Sh. Gopi Nath Razdan Suryavanshi Nagar Upper Muthi Check Lane 6/D,
L.I.G. 92, Housing Colony (BSNL), Udhampur. resident of H.No: 35, Lane-2, Roop Nagar Enclave Jammu. 4/5/2010
14/4/2010 Block-A, Jammu, erstwhile resident of Sheetal Nath 61. Smt. Kanta Kachroo W/o Sh. Jagan Nath Kachroo;
4. Sh. Brij Lal Labroo S/o Late Sh. Anand Ram Labroo of Sathu, Sgr. 24/4/2010 presently residing at Mumbai, H.No: 230, Friends
Bul-Bul Lankar Alikadal Sgr; presently resident of Flat 33. Sh. Gopi Nath Bhat S/o Late Sh. Ishar Dass Bhat previ- Colony, Subash Nagar, Jammu. 4/5/2010
No: 6143, F-6, Alok Vihar, Sec-50, Noida. 15/4/2010 ously resident of Akingam Anantnag, Kmr, currently 62. Smt. Sham Rani Koul W/o Sh. Radha Krishen Koul orig-
5. Smt. Raj Dulari Kher W/o Late Sh. B.N. Kher of Nai residing at H.No: 18-A, Amar Colony Camp Road Talab inally resident of Govripora (Sant Nagar) Sgr; presently
Sarak Sgr; presently residing at 6, Shiv Dhara Row Tillo, Jammu. 24/4/2010. resident of H.No: 63, Lane-3, Durga Nagar, Talab Tillo,
House Pal Road Seerat Gujrat. 15/4/2010 34. Sh. Janki Nath Pandita S/o Late Vasudev Pandita erst- Jammu. 4/5/2010
6. Smt. Chuni Tickoo W/o Late Sh. P.N. Tickoo previously while resident of Hakura Anantnag Kmr; presently resid- 63. Sh. Radha Krishen Bhat S/o Late Pt. Sansar Chand
resident of Shahpora Ganderwal Kmr; presently resident ing at H.No: 46, Sharika Vihar Lower Roop Nagar, Muthi Bhat R/o Zaindar Mohalla Habbakadal Sgr; presently
of Lane-8, Netar Kothian Barnai Jammu. 15/4/2010 Jammu. 24/4/2010. residing at Himachal Pradesh. 4/5/2010
7. Sh. Kailash Nath Koul of Kalusa Bandipora Kmr; cur- 35. Sh. Janki Nath Dhar S/o Late Sh. Keshav Nath Dhar 64. Smt. Kanta Pandita W/o Sh. K.N. Pandita of Shivpora,
rently residing at 157-C, Regents, Shipra City originally resident of Safakadal, Sgr; presently resident Broadway Cinema Sgr; presently residing at H.no: 175,
Indirapuram (UP). 15/4/2010 of Airole, Navi Mumbai. 25/4/2010 Block-C, Sector-11, Faridabad, Haryana. 4/5/2010
8. Smt. Shyam Rani Shah of Rughnath Mandir Sgr; 36. Sh. Tej Nath Kichloo S/o Sh. Arjan Nath Kichloo original- 65. Smt. Vijay Koul W/o Sh. Jawahar Lal Koul previously
presently residing Qtr. No: 3, Vitesta Enclave Najafgarh, ly resident of Batapora Shopian Kmr; presently residing resident of Wanpoh Anatnag Kmr; presently residing at
New Delhi. 16/4/2010 at H.No: 49, MCJ, Lane-4, Buta Nagar, Paloura Jammu. Laxmi Puram, Sector-1-A, Jammu. 6/5/2010
9. Sh. Moti Lal Raina S/o Radha Krishen Raina originally 25/4/2010. 66. Smt. Somawati Sadhu W/o Late Dr. NK Sadhu original-
resident of Akura Anantnag Kmr; presently residing at 37. Sh. Hirday Nath Pandita of Batapora Kandha Kmr; ly resident of Safiyar Habbakdal, Doodh Ganga
CD Hospital Qtr. GMC Jammu. 17/4/2010 presently putting up at Flat No: 449-B, Indira Puram Natipora, Sgr;presently residing at H.No: 109/B, Basant
10. Smt. Chand Rani W/o Late Sh. Soom Nath Sarf original- Shipra City Gaziabat (UP). 25/4/2010 Nagar, Janipur, Jammu. 6/5/2010
ly resident of Kha-Bazar Anantnag (Kmr.) peresently 38. Smt. Sunita Bazaz W/o Sh. Raj Kumar Bazaz R/o 67. Smt. Prabhawati Badam W/o Sh. Lassa Koul Badam of
resident of H.No: 9, Lane No: 1, Adarsh Nagar Bantalab Baghe Sunder Ba Chattabal Sgr; presenty resident of Kralkhud Kharyar, Habbakdal Sgr; presently residing at
Jammu. 17/4/2010 H.No: 46, Block-A, Lane-2, Roop Nagar Enclave G-33, H.I.G. Duplex Partap Vihar Gaziabad. 6/5/2010.
11. Sh. Shiv Jee Bhat S/o Late Sh. Raghav Bhat (Darbar) Jammu. 25/4/2010 68. Smt. Lalita Patwari W/o Sh. Veerinder Patwari resident
originally residetn of Nai Basti Anantnag (Kmr) present- 39. Sh. Narayan Dass Pandit originally resident of Batapora of Bohri Talab Tillo, Jammu, currently E-8, Sector-41,
ly resident of H.No: 38, Lane-7, Muthi Jammu. Dealgam Anantnag Kmr; currently resident of H.No: 115- Noida. 6/5/2010
17/4/2010 Z, Lane No: II Vitasta Enclave Najafgarh (Kashmiri 69. Smt. Indira Pandita W/o Late Sh. Arjan Nath Pandita
12. Sh. Gopi Krishen Pandita S/o Late Pt. Dina Nath Colony) New Delhi. 26/4/2010 originally resident of Umanagri Anantnag Kmr; presently
Pandita originally resident of Kralyar Rainawari Sgr; 40. Sh. Makhan Lal Bhat S/o Late Sh. Shiv Ram R/o residing at H.NO: 63, Ward-17, Shankar Nagar, Sailan
presently residing at 54-Top Sherkhania Jammu. Chudrigund Kmr; presently residing at 1/130, Vikas Talab, Udhampur. 6/5/2010.
17/4/2010 Nagar Sarwal, Jammu. 26/4/2010 70. Smt. Mohan Pyari Mattoo W/o Lte Sh. Badri Nath
13. Smt. Prabha Devi Nehru W/o Late Sh. Damodhar Nehru 41. Sh. Makhan La Dhar S/o Late Sh. Shiv Ram Dhar R/o Mattoo originally resident of Sabdan Budgam Kmr;
previously resident of 52- Pvt. Jawhar Nagar Sgr; cur- Chudrigund presently residing at H.No: 130, Lane-1, presently resident of H.No: 82 Shantipuram Muthi
rently resident of 2/20 Panduka Colony Paloura Jammu. Vikas Nagar, Sarwal Jammu. 27/4/2010 Jammu. 7/5/2010
18/4/2010 42. Smt. Leelawati W/o Late Sh. Dev Ram Pandita original- 71. Sh. Makhan Lal Handoo originally resident of Kani Kadal
14. Sh. Maharaj Krishen Zutshi S/o Late Sh. Shiv Jee Zutshi ly resident of Chogal Handwara Kmr; presently residing Sgr; presently residing at 102, Govind Nagar, Sector-2,
of Gankhan Zainakadal Sgr; presently residing at 148-C, at 125/107 Ambica Vihar, Kabir Colony, Talab Tillo, Revenue Complex Road, Jammu. 7/5/2010
Surya Vihar Anand Nagar Bohri Jammu. 18/4/2010 Jammu. 27/4/2010 72. Smt. Shanta Bagati W/o Late Sh. Makhan Lal Bagati R/o
15. Sh. Maheshwar Nath Bhat S/o Late Pt. Nilla Kanth Bhat 43. Sh. Bhushan Lal Rishi S/o Late Sh. Prem Nath Reshi Bul Bul Lankar Alikadal Sgr; presently resident of R-205,
of Khaw Kmr; presently resident of 458, Colonels R/o Mattan, Martand Anantnag, Kmr; presently resident 21 Jal Vihar Noda (UP). 7/5/2010
Colony Talab Tillo, Jammu. 18/4/2010 of Post Office, Paloura, Jammu. 27/4/2010. 73. Smt. Sham Saproo W/o Sh. J.L. Saproo R/o
16. Smt. Raj Rani Dhar W/o Late Raj Nath Dhar of Nai 44. Sh. Satish Kumar Pandita S/o Late Pt. Janki Nath Habbakadal Sgr;presently residing at Laxmi Nagar
Sarak Ganpatyar Sgr; presently putting up at 184-Gulab Pandita Lokpura-Sedakpura Jammu. 27/4/2010 Dlehi. 8/5/2010
Apparts. Pitampoura Delhi. 18/4/2010 45. Smt. Arandati Bhan W/o Late Sh. PN Bhan of D-105, 1st 74. Sh. A.K. Bali S/o Sh. Dina Nath Bali originally resident of
17. Dr. Som Nath Zutshi R/o Upper Kralyar Rainawari Sgr; Floor Sun City, Sector-54, Gurgaon. 27/4/2010 Goshabugh Pattan Kmr; presently resident o H.No: 229,
presently resident of Flat No: 126 (FF) Dream Home 46. Sh. Badri Nath Tickoo R/o Peth Kunihama Buru Lane-1J Sector-2, Durga Nagar, Jammu. 8/5/2010
Apparts Green Enclave Naz Zirakpur Punjab. 19/4/2010 (Hagam) Kmr; presently residing at H.No: 360, Lane-12 75. Sh. P.I. Koul R/o G-2/17, Malviya Nagar, New Deli.
18. Sh. Avtar Krishen Koul S/o Late Sh. Shiv Jee Koul of Kabir Nagar, Poonch House Talab Tillo, Jammu. 8/5/2010
Hushroo Badgam, Kmr; presently residing at H.No: 45, 28/4/2010. 78. Smt. Dhanwanti Raina W/o Late Sh. DN Raina of Gund
Ward-14, Sailan Talab Udhampur. 20/4/2010 47. Smt. Arandati Bhan W/o Late Prathivi Nath Bhan of Ahalmar Nae-Sarak Sgr; presently residing at H.No:
19. Sh. Krishen Lal Raina S/o Late Pt. Gopi Nath Raina pre- Kanikadal Fire Brigade Lane Sgr; presently resident of 222, Upper Laxmi Nagar Sarwal Jammu. 9/5/2010
viously resident of Nawa Kadal Khande Bawe Sgr; cur- D-105, First Floor, Sunicyt, Sector-54, Gurgoan. 79. Sh. Dina Nath Bhat S/o Late Sh. Sarwanand Bhat of
rently residing at H.No: 178, Dharmal Temple Upper 28/4/2010 Ramooh Pulwama, Kmr; presently resident of H. No: 42,
Barnai Jammu. 20/4/2010 48. Smt. Tulsi Devi Raina W/o Sh. Dina Nath Raina of Block-B Lane 2/3, Roop Nagar Enclave Jammu.
20. Smt. Soomawati Koul W/o Late Pt. Dina Nath Koul fo Ranipora Brah Anantnag Kmr; presently resident of 9/5/2010
Karan Nagar, Sgr; rpesently residing at 68-A, Sector-31, Batal Ballian Udhampur. 28/4/2010 80. Sh. Ram Lal Mattoo S/o Late Sh. Mahanand Mattoo
Noida (UP) 20/4/2010 49. Sh. Ram Nath Bagati S/o Late Pt. Balak Ram Bagati R/o originally resident of Chanapora Sgr; presently resident
21. Smt. Rupawati Raina W/o Late Sh. Raghu Nath Raina of Tekipora (Lolab) Kupwara Kmr; presently resident of of H.No: 381, Lane-2, Anand Vhiar Bohri Jammu.
Kathwar Budgam, Kmr; presently residing at H.No: 6, Santra Morh Jammu. 29/4/2010 9/5/2010
Krishna Vinhar, Vinayak Nagar, Sector-1, Upper, Muthi 50. Prof. Joginder Nath Kar S/o Late Sh. Sham Lal Kar res- 81. Smt. Nirmala Dhar W/o Sh. Ashok Kumar Dhar of
Jammu. 20/4/2010 ident of 33, Indira Colony Talab Tillo Jammu. 29/4/2010 Gubag Bagh Ganderbal Kmr; presently resident of A-42,
22. Sh. Vijay Kumar Dhar S/o Sh. Bansi Lal Dhar of Arch 51. Sh. Shamboo Nath Raina S/o Late Sh. Nath Ram Raina Sainik Coony, Enclave Vipan Garden Uttam Nagar, New
Kulgam Kmr; presently residing at H.No: 331, Lane-3, R/o Abalwani Shopian Kmr; presently resident of Qtr. Delhi. 9/5/2010
Laxmi Vihar Tomal Colony Anand Nagar, Bohri Jammu. No: 749, Block-C, Mishriwalla Camp Jammu. 29/4/2010 82. Sh. Brij Krishen Kandhari S/o Late Sh. Ram Chand
21/4/2010 52. Smt. Roopawati Bhat W/o Sh. Nand Lal Bhat R/o Kandhari originally resident of Kharyar Habakadal Sgr;
23. Sh. Kanhaiya Lal Handoo S/o Late Sh. RC Handoo orig- Chichilora (Magam) Pattan Kmr; presently resident of presently resident of 36- Lower Laxmi Nagar Sarwal
inally resident of Rajbag Sgr; presently resident of H.No: H.No: 491, Jewan Vihar L.I.C. Colony Kunjwani Karnal Jammu. 10/5/2010
26, Lane-3, Pamposh Colony Janipur Jammu. Haryana . 29/4/2010 83. Sh. Soom Nath Raina R/o Qtr. No: 342, Muthi Camp
21/4/2010 53. Smt. Damyanti Raina (Razdan) W/o Sh. Sarwanand Jammu erstwhile resident of Sallar-Pahlgam, Kmr.
24. Sh. Kashi Nath Koul S/o Sh. Shiv Jee Koul R/o Gudbugh Raina (Razdan) of Akhoora Anantnag, Kmr; presently 10/5/2010
Pulwam, Kmr. 21/4/2010 residing at H.No:1 Sector, Durga Nagar Enclave 84. Sh. Kashi Nath Dhar S/o Late Sh. Mana Pandit R/o
25. Smt. Rita Koul D/o Late Sh. NN Koul of Jawahar Nagar Jammu. 30/4/2010 Jablipora Bijbehara Anantnag Kmr; presently resident of
Rajbagh Sgr; presently resident of Mumbai. 21/4/2010. 54. Smt. Mohini Bhat W/o Sh. Makhan Lal Bhat originally H.No: 3, Lane-3, Surya Vhiar Patta Bohri, Jammu.
26. Sh. Rattan Lal Handoo S/o Late Pt. Shamboo Nath resident of Mehjoor Nagar Sgr;presently resident of 10/5/2010
Handoo of Qazi Mohalla Anantnag Kmr; presently resid- 1/2A, Durga Nagar, Roop Nagar, Jammu. 1/5/2010 85. Smt. Kamlawati Dhar W/o Sh. Arjan Nath Dhar ER/o
ing at H.No: 713, Lane-3, Vinayak Nagar, Jammu. 55. Smt. Meenawati Bhat W/o Sh. Makhan Lal Bhat original- Muran Pulwama Kmr; presently residing at S/2, Plot No:
22/4/2010. ly resident of Dangarpora Shopian Kmr; presently resid- 2007, Sector-A, Vaishali Gaziabad. 10/5/2010
27. Sh. Nath Ji Raina S/o Late Sh. Shiv Jee Raina of Nanil, ing of H.No: 254, Sector-1, Vinayak Nagar Muthi 86. Sh. Girdhari Lal Kakroo S/o Late Sh Ved Lal Kakroo
Anantnag, Kmr; presently at Qtr. No: 1,2, Block-M, Jammu. 1/5/2010 originally resident of 193, Balgarden Sgr; presently
Jammu. 22/4/2010 56. Sh. Sham Lal Koul S/o Late Damodhar Koul previously residing at H.No: 25, Sector-C, Lane No: II, Udhewala
28. Roopawati Bhat W/o Pt. Nand Lal Bhat originally resi- residents of Jamia Qadeem Sopore, Kmr; currently put- Bohri, Jammu. 12/5/2010
dent of Chichlora (Magam) Pattan, Kmr; presently resid- ting up at H.No: 3, Lane-79 Hazuribagh Bohri Jammu. 87. Sh. Moti Lal Kuchroo S/o Late Sh. Sansar Chand
ing at H.No: 491, Jeevan Vihar LIC Colony Kunjpora 2/5/2010 Kuchroo of Dewan Bagh Baramulla Kmr; presently put-
Road Karnal Haryana. 22/4/2010 57. Sh. S.K. Ambardar S/o Mr L.P. Ambardar originally hails ting up at 380, Niti-Khan-III, Indirapuram Gaziabad.
29. Smt. Rattan Rani Razdan W/o Late Sh. Dina Nath frmo Sgr; presently residing at Delhi. 2/5/2010 12/5/2010
Razdan of Gund Ahalmar Nai Sarak Sgr; presently resi- 58. Smt. Kamlawati Pandita W/o Late Sh. Hari Ram Pandita 88. Sh. Badri Nath Razdan S/o Late Sh. Sarvanand Razdan
dent o Post Office Colony, Aap Shamboo Mandir, Roop R/o Karihama Kupwara, Kmr; presently residing at originally resident of Sirnoo Pulwama, Kmr; presently
Nagar, Jammu. 23/4/2010 H.NO; 105, Lane-8, Manorama Vihar Bohri Jammu. resident of 15/16-IB, Kral Bab Nagar Bantalab, Jammu.
30. Wife of Late Sh. JLSazawal, Smt. Rajrani Sazawal cur- 3/5/2010 13/5/2010
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June 2011
EDITORIAL
Deny the Separatist the support within India
STATE Government Kashmir committee is not a Kashmir so severe that people of BJP high command on
seems to have risen to recent addition to the band- were even denied free breath- the role of Ram Jethmalani in
the dangers posed by wagon of separatist supporters ing. Ram Jethmalani and Jammu and Kashmir. What
the forays of people like in India masquerading as Arundhatti Roy represent ideo- makes Jethmalani to become
Gautam Navlakha, Arundhatti peaceniks. In its first incarna- logically different poles and yet a stronger player in BJP than
Roy, Ram Jethmalani and so tion the Kashmir Committee they seem to be meeting even Jaswant Sing who was
many others who flaunt them- had Dileep Padgaonkar, who intensely in Kashmir. Or is it expelled from the party for
selves as prominent members is now the chief Interlocutor that both of them are actually comments in his book which
of the civil society of India who appointed by Government of approaching the task of balka- were not as dangerous as the
can help win supporters for the India, as its member. Many nization of India using utterances of Ram
separatist cause in Jammu apprehend that services of Kashmiri Muslim Separatism Jethmalani? Is it the legal sup-
and Kashmir in rest of India. Ram Jethmalani’s Kashmir as a cardinal insult to the port which he provides to
That the state government Committee have been sought National unity. Narendra Modi in Gujarat or is
thinks that the indulgence of by the interlocutors them- The convergence of seg- he the leader of the track two
such persons in Kashmir selves to engage those in the ments of Indian right and the maneuver of BJP on Kashmir
affairs is in fact bringing insta- separatist rank and file who radical left on the issue of which provides the party the
bility and more trouble to the have refused to meet them. Jammu and Kashmir is per- room for implementing the
people of Jammu and Kashmir Others say Kashmir haps more an indicator of the Vajpayee line while providing a
is a realization which should Committee is a identity of the bigger powers sufficient space for deniability?
be welcomed. It needs howev- proxy committee of BJP to which have been promoting The government of India has
er to be seen over a period of convey signals to the sepa- both. Once we start examining ignored to its own discomfiture
time whether the displeasure ratist echelons in the valley the issue from this angle we the support Kashmiri Muslim
of the state government is that the party still continues to reach an inevitable conclusion separatism has got from sec-
merely a tactical and transient pursue the Vajpayee line even that the right and the left we tions of political class in rest of
ploy to somehow ensure a now despite the fact that it is recognize as right and left are India. The local governments
peaceful tourist season in the not in a position to support it in fact merely tools of a vicious in the state have also taken a
valley this year or a more openly because of the change imperialist maneuver in long time to realize how
deeper realization of the sup- in the political arithmetic in the Jammu and Kashmir. The encouragements from within
port structures of separatism in party as well as in the country. implications of Ram help in complimenting the
the state in rest of the Indian But when Mr. Jethmalani com- Jethmalani comparing the situ- destabilsation campaigns on
mainland. pares the situation in Kashmir ation in Jammu and Kashmir the ground. As the situation in
The public discourse in India with that of Germany when with Nazi Germany are the Pakistan is deteriorating and
has mainly remained focused Nazis were at the helms of same as his support to the the international opinion is
on the support provided to the affairs in that country we are Musharraf formula. And these waking up to the dangers
separatism in Jammu and witnessing a vicious phenome- implications are perfectly in posed by Muslim identity poli-
Kashmir by Pakistan. There is non of self-negation and self- sync with what Arundhatti Roy tics in fomenting and perpetu-
no denying the fact that flagellation which goes beyond and Gautam Navlakha have ating culture of intolerance, the
Pakistan continues to be the the rationale of lobbying, been saying and doing about support which the separatists
key and critical component of engagement and political Kashmir. Such interventions in Jammu and Kashmir are
the separatist support struc- brinkmanship. have been seen umpteen getting from within India is act-
tures in Jammu and Kashmir. Ram Jethmalani has chosen times in the past when the sit- ing as a critical oxygen line. It
But it is also true that there are to pick up the thread where uation in Kashmir had shown is time that the political support
many political actors and for- Arundhatti Roy had left after signs of improvement and line of separatists from within
mations in rest of India who for she chose to exit herself from when the credibility of sepa- India is disrupted decisively for
their own reasons want the indulgence in Kashmir affairs ratism was starting to take a democratic process to shift
separatist pot boiling in the for a while. Arundhatti Roy had nose dive. What is most from soft secessionism to a
state. Ram Jethmalani led described the repression in intriguing is the abject silence vibrant nationalist mode.
K.S. Indepth study Kashmir Sentinel a real treasure
Sir, take ‘Kashmiriyat’ of Sir, material published is destined munity, needs to be taken up
Thanks for sending me KP’s to move on. Kashmir Sentinel is bringing to go into readers archives and ... and the psychologists need
regularly ‘Kashmir The analysis out well analyized writeups shall be used as reference to address the issues raised by
Sentinel’. Undoubtely it ‘Islamabad Conference’ and presents possibly the real the writer with immediate
gives a indepth study of by Prof. M.K. Teng is picture of different subjects LETTERS remedial measures.
the problems, historical mindblowing and I agree viz., Kashmiri Pandits Sentinel is bound to guard
importance and our with him to quote’- The Kashmir imbroglio, culture, the broader issues of the
socio-economic know Indian office messed to Tradition philosophy and what material by our future genera- Cummunity and the Nation.
now. picked up the signal’. not. Although its publication tion.
I really congratulate frequency has sharply gone The indepth analysis of Dr. --A.N. Raina
you all for continuing to --Dr. Sunil Kaul down for some time, but the Chrungoo about the KP com- Delhi
New Delhi
4
GUEST CCOLUMN
June 2011
Are “Radicalized Hindus” more dangerous than LeT?
RADICALS
outpouring of these chau- assassination by a Sikh Hindu radicals more
vinist remarks. Nothing guard? (Still she did not dangerous to India, thus
can be more outrageous. blame the community). It denigrating Hindu com-
In a political conversa- is only the government’s munity. Had it been so,
tion with the US inefficiency to tackle there would have been
Ambassador Timothy Islamic terrorism which anarchy in India, as was
Roemer, he has made it has led to the stray inci- witnessed in Iraq,
known that although “ dents of bomb blasts at Afghanistan and now in
there was evidence of Ajmer and Hyderabad. Pakistan, where
‘some’ support for LeT The Students Islamic Muslims are being killed
among certain elements Movement of India in hundreds on daily
By J N Raina in India’s indigenous (SIMI) is a well-knit basis.
Muslim community, the homegrown terrorist As if Rahul’s revela-
THIS is no baby bigger threat may be the organization, acting as a tions were not enough,
talk. These words growth of radicalized surrogate for the ISI , Dighvijaya Singh went a Afile photo of 1984 Delhi Roits
of ‘wisdom’ that Hindu groups, which cre- LeT and Jaish-e- step further in tarnish-
“Hindu terror groups ate religious tensions Mohammad. ing the image of India by
with the Nazi holocaust ATS Chief Hemant
could pose a bigger and political confronta- Several hundred comparing the attitude of
in which six million Jews Karkare had received
threat to India than tions with the Muslim Hindus have been killed Hindus towards Muslims
were massacred solely threats from extremist
Muslim militant groups community”. These are in a series of bomb blasts with that of Nazis
because they were Jews’. Hindu groups, which he
like the Lashkar-e-Toiba wild allegations against in India, engineered by towards Jews. What a
Let Rahul Gandhi nar- sadly connected with the
(LeT)” are coming from the peaceful Hindu com- ISI, in collaboration with shameful comparisons.
rate to people in the next 26\11 Mumbai attack.
the mouth of Rahul munity, comprising 80 LeT during the past 20 His allegations that RSS
elections that Hindus are He can stoop so low.
Gandhi, the icon of the per cent of India’s popu- years. Reac-tion was was instilling violence
more dangerous and see Even then Minority
Indian National lation. They are not war- expected and hatred
the result. Signals are Affairs Minister A R
Congress (INC). Great- like. from the thro-ugh Sh-
already discernible from Antulay had charged
grandson of India’s first Rahul Gandhi’s grand- majority ishu mandirs
Bihar Congress cannot that Karkare could have
Prime Minister mother Indira Gandhi Hindu com- is preposter-
revive on the old plank of become a victim of ‘ter-
Jawaharlal Nehru is was never paranoid m u n i t y , ous. He has
dividing people on the rorism or terrorism plus
stuck-up with the belief about the ‘radicalized’ even belat- failed to men-
basis of caste and reli- something’. What does
that “honey moon period” community. She would edly. Those tion about
gion. The party should this all indicate? It is on
for the United never blame them in who killed mad-rassas,
have learnt a lesson from the basis of these
Progressive Alliance such a roughshod man- Sikhs were run by
Bihar polls where people assumptions and pre-
(UPA) was over, obvious- ner for the ills of the Congress Islamic insti-
ignored communal poli- sumption that the US
ly for lack of proper lead- nation. On the contrary, goons, not t u t i o n s ,
tics. The party should had come to believe that
ership. these groups were uti- radicalized where pupils
not misread people’s ver- the Congress had
His fears are justified. lized at election time to H i n d u s . are openly
dict in Bihar. Instead of ‘backed’ the ‘outlandish’
He knows the ins and garner Hindu votes. Even after taught to kill
salvaging the image of conspiracy theory over
outs of the Congress, and Even Rajiv Gandhi partition, Smt. Indira Gandhi ‘kafirs’ (non- the Congress, Dighvijaya the death of Karkare in
is obtrusively blaming would never pass on such lakhs of believers). In
Singh and Rahul Gandhi 26\11 attack for ‘crass
the leadership of his objectionable remarks Hindus in Pakistan and a 32-page booklet : “ The
together have been slam- political gains’. Then U S
mother Sonia Gandhi, churlishly. Rahul’s bete Bangladesh have either Muslims’ Belief” , stu-
ming the BJP. They have Ambassador to India
the high-flown noire, Varun Gandhi, his been killed, converted or dents are told : “ It is our
succumbed to the worst David Mulford in a cable
Chairperson of the UPA, first cousin, on the con-
kind of debased politics, to Washington had
which is united superfi- trary, has been asking
provoking one communi- observed that the
cially but bereft of pro- the Indians to “rise above In a 32-page booklet :
ty against the other. Its “Congress had made a
gressive ideals. caste; to build a united
In a leaked U S diplo- Hindu society”. This is “The Muslims’Belief”, students are told only agenda is to destroy cynical political calcula-
the opposition and attack tions to boast the con-
matic cable, Sonia the difference in upbring- : “ It is our opinion that whoever claims the RSS, which is spiracy theory”. EOM
Gandhi has been ing. Rahul has lost his
engaged in rebuilding *(The writer is a sen-
described as “someone cultural moorings. the acceptability of any existing religion
India. The Congress is ior most journalist
who never misses an What a comparison
opportunity to miss an between the hydra-head- today—other than Islam— such as just helping Pakistan in based at Pune)
slamming India. Earlier,
opportunity to show real ed LeT and the so-called Judaism, Christianity and so forth, is a Singh raised controversy
leadership”. How appro- ‘radicalized Hindu
by suggesting that slain
priate these words are. groups’. There is a non-believer. He should be asked to
It has been amply made Himalayan difference.
clear in the cable, put out Rahul’s background repent; if he does not, he must be killed Homage
by WikiLeaks that “ about LeT is succinct.
as an apostate because he is rejecting the
…Sonia Gandhi has been Even a child knows it is Sh Pushkar Nath Raina
unable to show princi- the creation of ISI to dis- Quran”. The booklet has been distributed popularly known as Papa
pled leadership”. It is member India. Its sub- Ji was resident of Nowgam
understandable. That is versive pan-Islamic role by the Jeddah D’awah Centre, Jeddah. Anantnag presently at
expected from Sonia is well-known interna- Lower Muthi, Jammu. He
Gandhi, whose roots are tionally. On the contrary, was soft spoken & God
not embedded in the the RSS is nationalist to forced to flee. opinion that whoever fearing personality. He
Indian culture. It gives the core, an organization Rahul Gandhi however claims the acceptability was staunch follower of
credence to the belief wedded to India’s unity. admits in the cable that of any existing religion Swami Ashokananda Ji
that that Sonia Gandhi is If some elements in the ‘homegrown extremist today—other than Maharaj founder of
more powerful—who RSS have turned bigots, front has been reacting Islam— such as Nagdandi Ashram in Sh Pushkar
exhibits her prowess— there must be some rea- to terror attacks coming Judaism, Christianity Anantnag district. After Nath Raina
than Prime Minister son. Intrinsically, they from Pakistan or from and so forth, is a non- displacement from
Manmohan Singh. All have lost patience with Islamic groups in believer. He should be Kashmir he got himself associated with Rama
important decisions are the Indian authorities for India…’. His diabolical asked to repent; if he Krishana Advaita Ashram Udhowalla fouund-
taken by her, and PM is their failure to combat statement is a slur on does not, he must be ed by Swami Shakti Ji discipile of Swami
agreeable to all. The Pakistan-sponsored ter- India’s secular traditions killed as an apostate Ashokanand Ji Maharaj.
country has never been rorism, continuing for 30 and Indian democracy. because he is rejecting He was taking keen interest in community
so mired in multifarious years. Who is at fault? While the same Roemer the Quran”. The booklet programmes.He was very much impressed by
scams. New Delhi lacks Who created Sant cable written on Jan 9, has been distributed by the concept of Panun Kashmir & was taking
proper leadership. Till it Bindranwallah and sub- 2009, has quoted then U the Jeddah D’awah
personnel part in Panun Kashmir programmes.
happens, the Congress sequently the Sikh ter- S Assistant Secretary of Centre, Jeddah.
He was inspiring force for our family.
will have to endure. rorism, which State Richard Boucher Israel has snubbed
We have lost our guide, father, friend & have
Mind-numbingly, boomeranged on the as telling then India’s Dighvijaya Singh for
no words to write about his great personality.
Rahul Gandhi, the scion Congress. Who alienated Foreign Secretary Shiv making such a compari-
of the Nehru-Gandhi the Sikh community and Shankar Menon that the son. It has warned that He breathed his last on early morinig (4:30
family, in an uncanny at what cost? Who killed US had told Pakistan to ‘without entering into a AM) of 19th of May 2011.
manner, created an nearly 7000 Sikhs in the ‘eliminate LeT’, Rahul political debate, no com- --O.P. Raina
unnecessary fuss by the wake of Indira Gandhi’s has pitifully considered parison can be made
5
OPINION
June 2011
Ramlila Maidan: Sonia Maino Gandhi’s GESTAPO project
By Sandhya Jain This write up was written by the author on 6th of June 2011, scarves.
soon after the police action at Ram Lila Ground The point is why did
THE Congress-led BJP not fight ruling
UPA government status as super-PM, demand disbanding this excessive powers for and stated that an party corruption openly?
lost both honour thus restoring power useless and motivated itself. organisation to lead the And once it was known
and legitimacy when, in and authority to the body, which is merely a While the ‘civil society’ anti-corruption battle that Baba Ramdev
the dead of night of 4–5 legitimate constitutional perch for cronies of the representatives on the would be formed by RSS would fast on June 4,
June, it sent armed position-holders and powers-that-be. Committee were savvy thinker K.N. why did the BJP
policemen to invade and institutions. Indeed, the The National enough to support Baba Govindacharya, who President call a national
assault unarmed, sleep- Congress party may be Commission for Women Ramdev in his fast at would also lead it. executive meeting and
ing, anti-corruption pro- privately amenable to is another useless Ramlila Maidan, and to Swami Ramdev made it take party stalwarts
testors at Ramlila such a move as it realis- organisation could be condemn the barbarous clear that the Bharat away from Delhi at the
Maidan in the capital, es that neither Sonia shut down. As expected, attack sponsored by the Swabhiman Trust would very same time?
led by the celebrated Gandhi nor Rahul it was missing through- State, they surely real- remain separate and Worse is the wimpish
continue public aware- approach of satyagraha
Yogi, Swami Ramdev. Gandhi are credible out the action, though ize that if they continue ness work. at Rajghat (give me a
The action is reminis- vote-catchers and that eye witnesses appeared on the Committee, they Obviously, the sudden break), rather than con-
cent of the manner in new leaders will have to on national television to will be perceived as ‘poo- decision for Swami fronting the regime
which the Communist be built at all levels. say that policemen dles’ of Sonia Gandhi by Ramdev to lead a fast- frontally, and helping
Party of India–Marxist The Supreme Court, stepped on the bellies of the general public. As unto-death at Ramlila battered citizens. The
lost its reputation when whose judges surely wit- unarmed women and such, their work, if it Maidan and issue ulti- party uses Baba
goons raped two women nessed the atrocity on tore off their clothes; does conclude to their matums to the Ramdev to lure innocent
protesting against State their television screens female constables were satisfaction, will lack Government on the villagers into an inhos-
land grab for a crony along with the rest of issue of return of black pitable environment,
capitalist in Singur, the nation, is morally on money from abroad (and and leaves them to fend
West Bengal . Hindu trial at this critical junc- assorted other demands, for themselves while its
tradition looks poorly ture. To uphold its pres- some laughable) was the leaders sleep in the com-
upon those who assault tige, the Hon’ble judges result of manipulation of fort of 5-star hotels (no
unarmed citizenry, must suo moto take a decent man. more tents, mind you).
something the Italian- notice of the unprovoked Throughout the day of This brings us to the
born Roman Catholic violence unleashed upon June 4, Govindacharya most pertinent question
does not understand. the citizenry and order had a prominent role at - why did Advani and co
Petticoat politicians an immediate ban on the Ramlila Maidan. sneakily join hands with
The question legiti- the Government and
like Digvijay Singh may political culture of sur- mately arises why he agree to covertly pass
exult in the false reptitious and illegal was missing at night – the Budget without dis-
empowerment wrought midnight arrests/ deten- when everyone in the cussion in April, on the
by misuse of power, but tion of unarmed persons, The police run roit at midnight during the interven- city knew that the very day Parliament
there should be no doubt without warrant, and ing night of 4 & 5th June 2011 at Government was plan- was to break for the one
that there will be a particularly the bashing Ram Lila Maidan, New Delhi. ning some action that month recess in which
severe public backlash, up of sleeping men, night, and messages to the Budget would be
with no quarter or women and children in this effect had started studied by MPs, before
mercy for supremo the darkness of night. deployed much later. credibility. Wisdom going out from 2 p.m. being passed in May?
Sonia Maino Gandhi, No matter how irked NCW is a drain on the demands a retreat from onwards. Officially, the Given the huge corrup-
widely perceived as the persons in authority national exchequer and the Committee. Maybe talks collapsed only tion, crushing price rise,
architect and benefici- may feel about peaceful a sinecure for unem- they will choose this around 7 p.m., but clear- and excessive favours to
ary of this Nazi protestors, a civilized ployed retainers of the course during their pub- ly Government was the corporate sector,
Gestapo–Sicilian style society claiming to be a regime. Naturally, it is lic fast on June 8. preparing the crack- why did BJP not consid-
operation. democracy cannot allow notorious for selective Need to rethink Civil down prior to the break- er a cut motion to bring
its citizens to be hound- concerns regarding Society methods of agi- down. Where were all the Government down or
Tasks before the ed and assaulted like women’s rights. tation the cadres of the BJP wrest some tax conces-
nation animals selected for To their credit, Anna Both Anna Hazare and the RSS, which had sions for the middle
There is an immediate culling in a jungle. Hazare and his col- and Baba Ramdev clearly used the Baba for class?
nNeaetdio ntaol disbaAnddv istohrye Trehaesroen isw hnyo tlheeg itpimolaictee ltehaagt uthese phoalivcee atrreoacliitzye d– wovoeurl dt hdeo wmeeltl htood ps onthdeeyr aw itphr orxuyli npgo pliatrictya?l fight prAomndi sew htyo dipda sAsd vtahnei
Council and its illegal did not ask citizens to which Government min- used to force Why politics behind Lokpal Bill (still not
role in law-making and leave the venue in the isters like Kapil Sibal Government action purdah? drafted) without it being
brought to Parliament
setting the national daytime, or why it could and Subodh Kant Sahay against corruption, and It bears recalling that
and seen by the party?
agenda, overriding not wait for them to are shamelessly defend- to admit that these were the first major scandal Is a political party sup-
Parliament and vacate as per schedule ing (while Pranab counter-productive. involving political lead- posed to give blind sup-
Government. This body on June 6. Mukherjee has slipped While raising public ership in our times was port to laws introduced
of intellectual charla- The Supreme Court away, surfacing only to awareness about the the Bofors payoff scam by Government at the
tans has been created must make the call it a ‘sad event’, scandalous proportions which engulfed the rep- instance of an extra-con-
only to give the Government apologise while Home Minister P. assumed by corruption utation of Prime stitutional body?
Congress president a for this atrocity and pay Chidambaram claims he in the political class is Malli niosnte ra cRcaojuivn t Goafn dhhiis, Last words
Cabinet rank at public punitive damages for was away and did not one thing, neither was wife, Sonia Maino (cid:132)The UPA govern-
expense, and to host a the physical violence give permission for authorised or capable (in Gandhi, and her person- ment instead of cracking
bunch of unelectable and loss of human digni- action!) – has made their the end) of forcing the al associations. down on crooks, hawala
cronies who help her ty suffered by Swami position in the Joint Dr Government to submit This scandal was operators, and illegal
undermine and destabi- Ramdev and the thou- afting Committee for the to their demands. Both opposed politically by all foreign bank account
lize the Prime Minister sands of men, women, Lokpal Bill invidious. were manipulated by the non-Congress oppo- holders, has instead
and the Government. and children, whose other forces, which is sition parties, individu- swooped on an unarmed
Under Sonia Gandhi, peaceful gathering was This writer is among why the goalposts shift- ally and collectively, and Swamiji and world
the UPA has been forced illegally disrupted with the early critics of the ed in their respective there was no culture of renowned Yoga teacher
to outsource all thinking police brutalities. Joint Drafting agitations. proxy wars using non- who had wanted effec-
and law-making to these Committee and Lokpal political eminent per- tive action against the
darbaris. As Indian Swami Ramdev and Bill, and it would be During the build up to sons to shadow-box on corruption, making
Express Editor-in-Chief the public should give a worthwhile for the ‘civil the Anna Hazare fast in behalf of some party or India look like a tin pot
Shekhar Gupta argued, wide berth to the society’ representatives Jantar Mantar, RSS other. I particularly dictatorship in a Banana
the “idea of putting a National Human Rights to resign and facilitate think tank Vivekananda recall an all-party rally Republic – Dr
non-governmental Commission headed by the early demise of the I n t e r n a t i o n a l (perhaps Jantar Subramanian Swami
Foundation organised a
watch over your own Sonia acolyte K.G. committee (which any- Mantar) attended, (cid:132)Supreme Court must
two-day seminar to gal-
government undermines Balakrishnan, who way is going nowhere). vanise cadres for the among others, by order a probe as justice
the very idea of elected, remained a mute specta- The writer opposes the Jantar Mantar move- National Conference MP cannot be expected from
constitutional democra- tor to this scandal and Lokpal Bill because it ment, probably without Akbar Jehan (mother of the Centre - Uttar
cy.” So it is time to dis- failed to take cognizance usurps the powers of the understanding the Dr Farooq Abdullah), Pradesh chief minister
mantle the NAC. And of this massive outrage legislature, executive, issues associated with it. Akali Dal MPs, and MPs Mayawati
with this will end Sonia enacted in the capital judiciary and police, Swami Ramdev came for of the then new Telugu *(The writer is
Gandhi’s illegitimate itself. In fact, we should CBI, et al, and assumes the valedictory function Desam Party who Editor, www.vijay-
flaunted bright yellow vaani.com)
6
CONTINUATION
June 2011
(From Page 1) Democratic Process: Conversion into a Subversive tion of the separatist leaders.
The importance accorded to
leveled allegations on them.
the separatist participation in
Our people are being dubbed
arrows aimed at it from has certainly a great value. opposed the democratic these conferences was actual-
as LeT militants, paid agents
Washington, Brussells and But if the government has a process in the state over the ly a process of delegitimizing
and now recently as drug
Tel Aviv.” Mr. Zainagiree has policy structure which essen- years. The international opin- the democratic process itself.
addicts by the state govern-
almost revealed the mindset tially undermines and also ion which the secessionist The outcome of each such con-
ment only for raising the voice
of the cadre based Jamaat as delegitimizes the ‘democratic mind in Kashmir is targeting ference and the reports of the
for resolution of Kashmir
also the core content of the process’ which it has estab- cannot be expected to ignore Working Groups created dur-
issue...”
processes which are making lished in an extremely stress- this reality. ing these conferences aimed
The sections of separatists,
the radical and more popular ful environment of terrorist Why will the international primarily to further woo the
whom Government of India
separatist leader to behave as intimidation, then the ‘func- opinion not take the cog- separatists. With each cycle of
never hesitates to call as
he has been. Geelani, by tioning democracy’ argument nizance of the fact that the concessions the separatist
‘moderates’, also drew paral-
engaging with the govern- loses its value and cannot be Indian Government itself does leaders, including particularly
lels between the situation in
ments at the state level and harnessed as a protective not accord the respect of a those whom the Government
Egypt and Kashmir. All of
the Centre and cohabiting shield. functioning democracy to the of India calls as moderates,
them hoped that Egypt can be
with the likes of Arundhatti Only very recently the New democratic process which it further stiffened their stance
replicated in Kashmir.
Roys, once in a while extend- Delhi appointed Chief has established under the and stubbornly refused to give
How the ferment inside is
ing his hand of patronage to Interlocutors for Jammu and nose of a terrorist gun? Can any credibility to the demo-
shaping can be gauged from
hapless Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmir said that the partici- Americans afford to call the cratic process. The influence
the following two sample
Sikhs living in the valley, is pation of people in Panchayat elected governments In and the concomitant pres-
responses. One from a former
exhibiting a flexibility which polls and the Kashmir prob- Afghanistan and Iraq as non- sures which the democratic
terrorist and now a self-pro-
many are describing as a lem were two different issues. representative and merely as process could have generated
fessed moderate whom many
change of heart of the ailing “Polls and Kashmir issue are day to day arrangements? were neutralized by the very
in Kashmir believe to be clos-
and aged leader. When the far away from each other. The strategic fraternity in character of the democratic
er to government of India, Mr.
septuagenarian leader chose People are participating in India and an overwhelming process employed on the
Firdous Sayed , one of the first
to be one of the first leaders in elections to address their section of the Indian political ground.
of the initial band of young Conversion of Democratic
the entire Islamic world to basic issues,” said Dileep class advocated the initiation
men who took to arms and Process into a
condemn the killing of the Padgaonkar at a two day of democratic process in the
also one of the first to Subversive Space
dreaded Osama bin Laden he ‘Peace Conference’ organized state in 1996 to restore the
renounce them. And second,
only demonstrated a ruthless by J&K Peace Foundation in democratic rights of the peo- During the stone pelting
Mr. Hassan Zainagiree who
commitment to pan Islamic Srinagar on May 16, 2011. In ple. Initiation of the demo- campaign last year, the
has been a pro Jamaat and
movement for which Osama is an earlier interview on cratic process served two Central Government was
pro Geelani columnist and
an undisputed icon. Geelani Doordarshan, Radha Kumar, other major strategic objec- exposed in ample measure to
writes regularly for the local
by declaring Osama bin Laden another interlocutor appoint- tives. First has been to deploy the contradictions and pitfalls
English dailies. Sh Firdous
as a martyr in the cause of ed by the Government of democracy to mobilize opinion of the democratic process
compared the situation in
Islam also mocked at those in India, described the elected against terrorism and sepa- which it has employed in
Kashmir with Egypt thus,
India within the government government in Jammu and ratism and isolate the armed Jammu and Kashmir. The
“On February 11, when Hosni
and outside who have been Kashmir as almost non-repre- separatist regimes in the failure of the elected govern-
Mubaraq was forced to resign
claiming a change of heart in sentative because as per her a state. And second to use the ment in the state was called
and Tehrir Square burst in
him. very large public constituency democratic interface as a erroneously as a ‘governance
impromptu jubilations, people
The issue in Kashmir valley fell outside the boundaries of legitimate moral shield while deficit’ by the Central
in Tehran were observing the
is not whether Egypt like the democratic sphere. These conducting counter terrorist Government. The unwilling-
thirteenth year of Iranian rev-
uprising can be replicated. are not isolated views of per- operations on the ground. ness of the state government
olution. Iran’s and Egypt’s
The separatist regimes have sons who might have been Democratic interface acts as a to stand up against secession-
revolution share a date
the confidence and expertise nominated as interlocutors by constant deterrent against ist mobilizations in the state
February 11. The comparison
of mobilizing people far more the Government of India for Human Rights violations and and many times if not always
does not end here, February
in numbers. They have the reasons other than their views does not allow terrorists to acting as an accomplice to the
11 in Kashmir is remembered
maturity to ignore the multi- on the democratic experiment use the argument of Human secessionists cannot be merely
as a day when Maqbool Bhatt
plying fractures within their in Jammu and Kashmir. A Rights violations, which called as a ‘governance
kissed the rope and kindled
rank and file. The stone pelt- significant section of Kashmir inevitably happen once in a deficit’.
the flame of Azadi with his
ing campaign last year amply experts and track 2 actors while as collateral damage At the peak of ‘stone pelting’
blood.” Mr. Hassan Zainagiree
demonstrated this. They have employed by none other than when security forces confront campaign the Chief Minister
wrote in his column, “No polit-
demonstrated it at many occa- the Government of India itself violence organized from with- of the State said without inhi-
ical manipulation or military
sions in the past, be it march- profess the same views. in the sanctuary of the society bitions that the “the aspira-
might can stop simmering
es to UN Military Observers When government of India itself. tions of the people of Jammu
lava of rebellion from accumu-
Posts in the outskirts of allowed Mufti Mohammad The decision to initiate dem- & Kashmir cannot be
lating a critical mass and then
Srinagar, or march to Chrar-i- Sayed and Omar Abdullah to ocratic process then was a assuaged only by develop-
blowing up citadels of hubris
Sharief and many similar advocate publicly, as the Chief critical decision as the terror- ment, good governance and
into smithereens….. If today
mobilizations during the Ministers of the state, that ist regimes in the state were economic packages but needs
Al-Tehrir Square sent twenty
Amarnath Land row. The their elected governments far from being vanquished a political solution…. We
first century Pharaoh of Egypt
issue which they are address- were just a day to day even though falling into disar- must work together to find a
in the dark dungeons of
ing is how such mobilizations arrangement to handle the ray under the attack of count- solution that can lead to a
History, some other squares
on the ground could be used to day to day problems of the er insurgent operations. More lasting peace in Jammu &
are waiting and gearing up for
wreck the status quo on people and they have no locus critically subversive entrench- Kashmir as per the aspira-
replicating Al-Tehrir. ”
Kashmir. When the Prime standi to decide about the ment in the organs of the tions of the people of this
Referring to the role of Islamic
minister talks about the value larger political issues it ren- state administration had great land.” This position was
organizations in Egypt Mr.
of ‘functioning democracy’ he ders the entire functioning remained untouched and exactly in sync with the sepa-
Zainagiree notes, “ The
is ignoring the fact that the democracy in the state to a there was every possibility ratist line. How many times
Islamist Organization (in
political class across the spec- stature of even worse than that restoration of democratic have we heard Ali Shah
Egypt) remaining invisibly
trum in the valley recognizes that of a ‘managed democra- process might lead to widen- Geelani say that development,
visible behind the scenes used
it as a ‘managed democracy’ cy’ which the educated middle ing and deepening of the sub- unemployment, miss-gover-
its organizational strength
and they also believe that the class in Kashmir valley choos- versive entrenchment. But as nance were non issues and the
and mobilized large number of
world at large is just a very es to call it. If the elected gov- the policy of Government of real solution was settlement
its supporters for the protest
small distance from recogniz- ernment in Jammu and India unfolded the democratic of Kashmir issue as per the
that was mainly non-religious
ing it so. He also is blissfully Kashmir is accorded the sta- process in the state far from wishes and aspirations of the
and spontaneous in character.
unaware about the fact that tus of a mere interface becoming an anti-dote to people!
Despite being banned from
his own government has between the governments of secessionism got transformed Attitude of the State
political activity it accepted
allowed the democratic Pakistan, India and the peo- into a process where sepa- Government during last
the invitation for discussion
process to be undermined ple of Kashmir by the govern- ratists were accorded an extra year’s so called ‘Quit Kashmir’
on political transition….
with impunity. ments in the state and the constitutional veto over all the campaign was both of help-
Projecting a more pragmatic Undermining of the Centre then the democratic political interventions devised lessness as well as political
image of itself to domestic and Democratic process legitimacy automatically by the elected government unwillingness to stand up to
international audience
The ‘functioning democracy’ shifts outside of the democrat- itself. the secessionists .
Ikhwan declared it as an
argument as a counter weight ic sphere to the regimes All the three Round Table Unwillingness to stand up
‘Egyptian Revolution’, and not
to the mass upsurges in orchestrating secessionist Conferences on Jammu and against secessionist forces
an Islamic revolution. With
Kashmir valley guided by public mobilizations but Kashmir were primarily because there is a definite
one stroke of political acumen
regressive political ideologies which have stubbornly devised to ensure participa-
and dexterity it blunted many (Contd. on Page 10)
7
TUMULTUOUS VALLEY
June 2011
PC's 'Indian' Geelani: the insider story
By Capt. S.K. Tikoo Salahu-du-Din. Senior 'com-
Geelani, not used to disobedience, it is well known, manders' of both groups got
SOON after P
killed in this internecine war-
Chidambaram took over got Haji Ghulam Mohemmed Shot dead soon after he fare. Geelani issued orders to
as the Union Home
Syed Salah-ud-Din to elimi-
Minister, a senior Congress came out of a mosque after having offered his nate all those who defied HM
party leader and an ex-minis-
headed by him. During this
ter of Jammu and Kashmir evening prayers. period, master Ahsan Dar got
(J&K) state sought an
a setback, when an important
appointment with him, to
hideout in the house of
apprise him of the ground militant and Maqbool Ilahi as be the supreme commander. public got disillusioned with
Rashid Zain-i-Gami, an influ-
realities existing in the state real (ASLI) militant. Master JI Jammu and Kashmir the internal bickering of JI
ential, rich and wealthy sup-
in general and the Valley in Yousuf Shah, a fire spewing and JI Pakistan recognised and HM and started openly
porter of Ahsan Da was
particular. The Union Home imam of a mosque and resi- only HM as a truly Islamic helping other rival militant
destroyed by the grenade
Minister gave him a patient dent of the same village who terrorist outfit and both these and terrorist outfits. JI could
attacks and in the process.
hearing but no sooner, this had unsuccessfully fought the organisations, locally and not take it lightly, it started
Rashid-Zaini-Gami was killed
Congressman who had trav- 1987 Assembly election as the from across the border, sup- co-opting and owning up, by
- a severe blow suffered by
elled all the way from JI candidate from Amira ported it fully. In 1991, a means fair and mostly foul,
Ahsan Dar. Rashid-Zaini-
Srinagar, talked about Syed Kadal constituency, was con- meeting was held under the other smaller terrorist outfits
Gami, was not the only one,
Ali Shah Geelani, the chair- spicuous by his presence. It chairmanship of master like 'Allah Tigers' 'Tehrik-i-
two other senior leaders of JI,
man of Tehrik-i-Hurriyat, a was SAS Geelani who pro- Ahsan Dar, in the house of Jamaait-i-Islami' etc. and
the senior most 'original
conglomerate of many subver- posed that the time was ripe Abdul Gani Sofi alias continued to do so in spite of
(ASLI) commander' and
sive, secessionist and anti- to stage an armed struggle Shaheen, a well known JI bitter opposition by Haji
'founder (baani) militant' met
Indian outfits as the master- against India and he also worker, situated in village Ghualm Mohammed, a
the same fate. It was Geelani
mind and the brain behind promised total support of JI Sepdan (district Budgam) and respected and a senior JI
who had ordered their
the anti-national and sepa- to this armed struggle. Ashraf was attended by Mohd. leader. Geelani, not used to
killings, only to emerge as the
ratist agitations being held in Dar, the founder militant sug- Yousuf Shah, Mohd. Abdullah disobedience, it is well
unchallenged leader of
the Valley day in and day out. gested ZIA Tigers as the alias commander, Ghulam known, got Haji Ghulam
Hurriyat, says one of
The Home Minister brushed Mohammed Gani known as
Geelanis one time colleague
him aside by saying that Syed 'ISI Agent', SAS Geelani.
who does not want to be iden-
Ali Shah Geelani was an Ghulam Mohammed Mir,
tified for obvious reasons.
Indian and conveyed in no Waheed Sheikh and Maqbool
Geelani did not stop at that.
uncertain terms to this Ilahi and a few more commit-
The rise of SLF (Students
Congressman that he was no ted JI members. In the said
Liberation Front) to populari-
longer interested in any fur- meeting, Geelani ordered his
ty in late 1994, was the
ther talks on the subject. The (HM) 'commanders' to disarm
biggest setback to Geelani
meeting ended then and all 'commanders' owing alle-
and he set his murder
there. Indian and Geelani are giance to rival militant
machine to motion. He
poles apart. Here is the brief groups. He even went to the
detailed Syed Salah-ud-Din to
profile of this 'Indian': extent of ordering their phys-
kill the 'supreme commander'
As early as 1989, a meeting ical elimination if they did not
of SLF - someone known as
oofn J aAmuaguats-te -3I,s lianm vi ilwlaagse hSeolid- P.Chidambaram angerre eo ft oH wMo.r kT uhnisd emr othvee bwaans- Syed Ali Shah Geelani Kuka Parrey, Salah-du-Din
failed to deliver and an imme-
Bug of Budgam district in vehemently opposed and
diate change of plans took
Kashmir Valley, under the name of the new outfit, which objected to by two senior-most Mohemmed Shot dead soon
place. A meeting was held in
chairmanship of Syed Ali would carry out insurgency in JI leaders viz Ghulam after he came out of a mosque
village Vachi in south
Shah Geelani. The meeting the state. Immediately there- Mohammed Ganai and after having offered his
Kashmir in the house of one
was held at the residence of after, hundreds (some say Mohammed Abdullah 'com- evening prayers. The killing
Ghulam Hassan Khan, a sen-
Dr. Mohd. Sultan. even thousands) of young mander'., but Geelani the was owned by 'Al-Hasan
ior JI leader. Another
boys were sent across to 'Indian' stuck to his guns and Commandoes' of 'Hazrat Ali
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir stripped Ahsan Dar of the Regiment', a fake outfit which The constitution
It was SAS
(POK) and Pakistan to get post of 'supreme commander' was never heard of again.
Geelani who pro- arms training in various and appointed Mohammed In 1991 itself, HM declared (dastoor) of
camps in POK and Pakistan. Yousuf Shah in his place the creation of a political out-
Tehrik-i-Hurriyat
posed that the time These camps were run by Pak under a new name-Syed fit and named it as Hurriyat
army and JI Pakistan jointly. Salah-ud-Din. Master Ahsan Conference with SAS Geelani right in its
was ripe to stage an It was this 'Indian' Geelani Dar was given the title of as its president. Known JI
permeable,
who persuaded the reluctant 'Military Adviser'-a decora- headliners like Mohammed
armed struggle
members of the Majlis-i- tive consolation. Master Akbar Bhat, Zaffar-ul-Islam incites, instigates
against India and Shoora of JI, to release Ahsaan Dar who had tremen- (Divisional Commander of
enough funds to this new dous hold in Pattan town and HM) and Sadiq Ali, the chief and provokes its
he also promised adventure and he ensured its adjacent villages in confidante of Geelani, were
members to elimi-
that ‘ZIA Tigers’ would never Baramulla district struck given key posts in the
total support of
fall short of financial support back quickly. In a significant Hurriyat Conference. Geelani nate all non-
to be provided by JI. move, he issued a press ensured that militant 'com-
JI to this armed
Some sudden developments release declaring HM as the manders' and upper ground believers in the
struggle. like the growth of JKLF ASKARI (militant) wing of JI leaders from other outfits did name of Islam
(Jammu Kashmir Liberation - it was the first public decla- not get important and promi-
Front), 'Allah Tigers' besides ration of JI running a terror- nent positions in the Hurriyat
Incidentally. Dr Mohd Sultan 'ZIA Tigers' declaring some ist outfit. Almost at the same Conference. But the high
senior JI leader, Ghulam
had also fought the elections sort of autonomy shocked time. Mohammed Abdullah handedness of Geelani was
Qadir Ganaai, present in the
as a JI (Jamaat-e-Islami) can- Geelani. His reaction was 'Commander'. who had soon challenged by those who
meeting sent for Abdul
didate to the J&K Legislative quick and sharp-he coined a walked out of HM, issued a had been fighting the 'holy
Qayoom Shah, an important
Assembly held in 1987. Those new word HM (Hizb-ul- separate press statement war' on the ground unlike
leader of National
who attended the meeting Mujahideen), borrowing the claiming that HM in fact was Geelani who was always issu-
Conference. There were 40 to
included Ghulam Mohd. Mir word Hizb from Arabic lan- a political outfit and 'Jamait- ing dictates from safe havens
50 fully armed militants
alias Shamas-ul-Haq, Mohd. guage which means jamaat i-Mujahideen was its militant without having ever operated,
already in the room when
Ismail, Ashraf Dar and (gathering group) and added (ASKARI) wing. Surprisingly, nay even touched an AK-rifle.
Qayoom Shah arrived. He
Maqbool Ilahi among others. Mujahideen to it. This new these two contradictory state- A vertical division split the
was offered a princely sum of
All of them were senior JI militant outfit was thus creat- ments issued by two stal- HM in two warring outfits,
Rs 50 lacs and asked to sur-
leaders. ed by JI and its constitution warts of JI were neither one headed by master Ahsan
render to the army, gain their
Those days, Ashraf Dar was was presented by Master endorsed nor contradicted by Dar and the other by master
confidence and kill 'that'
known as founder (BAANI) Ahsan Dar, who later rose to Ji or HM. However, general Yousuf Shah alias Syed
(Contd. on Page 8)
8
MEDIA SCAN
June 2011
Roadmap for Kashmir: the path not trodden
By Navnita Chadha Behera historical narrative sug- leader like Sheikh had munity of ‘Kashmiri demand for full and not a liability when
gested that Pakistan — voluntarily opted to join Muslims’ is not a uni- unconditional accession devising a strategy to
THE interlocutors the “homeland” of the India. fied, homogenous entity to India acted as a resolve this conflict if
for Kashmir are
subcontinent’s Muslims The ‘territorilization’ in terms of political countervailing force to they are viewed as a
due to submit an
— was incomplete with- of the Kashmir conflict beliefs , ideological lean- the Valley’s demand for basis for linkages, not
interim report to the
out Kashmir’s inclusion, has also detracted from ings or political goals. independence. Currently division.
central government. It is
or that India’s secular the question of peoples’ Nor is the Kashmiri too, the separatist lead- Finally, it’s important
too early to say if their
credentials depended on ‘political’ rights and per- Muslims’ interpretation ership faces the same to bring developments in
roadmap will resolve the
Kashmir’s accession. It dilemma. It speaks on ‘Azad Kashmir’ and the
conflict because what it
also suggested that the behalf of the ‘people of Northern Areas within
entails is unclear. If it’s
dispute arose because a Jammu & Kashmir’ but the purview of debates
expected to yield a final
Muslim-majority state represents the political on Kashmir’s political
political settlement,
then it may not succeed had its fate determined interests of only a part of future. The people of
because that can only by a Hindu Maharaja. the majority community ‘Azad Kashmir’ and the
result from a multi-lay- Both propositions do not —Kashmiri Muslims in Northern Areas had to
ered and inclusive politi- stand up to historical the Valley. The minori- wait until 1970 and 1994
scrutiny. In 1947,
cal dialogue wherein ties in Jammu and respectively to exercise
Kashmir’s fate was nei-
J&K’s political class Ladakh, in fact, seek their basic civil right to
ther preordained nor
takes the lead in re- autonomy from the vote. Ambiguities about
decided on ideological
working the rules of Valley. The secessionist the constitutional and
grounds. The princely
power sharing. The agenda underlying the legal status of the latter
Dogra state of Jammu
Delhi-based , eminent demand for right to self- have fostered typical
& Kashmir lay outside
albeit ‘apolitical’ inter- determination has thus colonial conditions
British India. The battle The interlocutors on J&K addressing
locutors are not best failed because it lacks an whereby all civil and
over it between the lead- media persons at Srinagar.
suited to this inclusive character. legal rights reside in the
ership of Congress and
monumental task. A just, viable and last- Pakistani state and
the Muslim League was petuated the fallacy of of the right to self-deter-
Even so, they may ing peace in Kashmir none in the people.
fundamentally political viewing two parts of the mination in terms of
make a significant con- must involve all the Nonetheless, Pakistan
and mainly because of divided state as homoge- demanding a plebiscite
tribution to the peace communities and has always assumed the
the respective nous entities. The politi- mandated by the 1949
process. This, simply by nationalities living in mantle of championing
Dominions’ defence cal construct of a UN resolutions shared
undertaking the overdue the state, not Kashmiri the Kashmiri cause and
needs and need for geo- ‘Muslim-majority’ by other communities
and neglected task of Muslims alone who dictated the terms of
graphical consolidation. Jammu & Kashmir state such as the Dogras,
mapping out the broad
Another critical factor pitted against a ‘majori- Kashmiri Pandits, resorted to the gun and Kashmir’s discourse at
parameters within
was the local dynamics tarian Hindu India’ or Gujjars, Bakkarwals have thus been the home and in the interna-
which the specificities of
a peace proposal may be of Kashmiri politics. its counterpoint that and Ladakhi Buddhists. worst affected by the tional arena. The basic
debated. Even this much Though legally, the Islam is sufficient to The Kashmiri leader- political violence. This is rules of the game in
calls for a fundamental Maharaja alone could cement the relationship ship has consistently important because if the agenda-setting must
shift in the basic terms sign the Instrument of between ‘Azad Kashmir’ failed to come to terms political demands of the change and if the inter-
of discourse because it Accession, it was the and Northern Areas with this reality. In the non-violent mobilization locutors could set this
questions the multiple Sheikh Abdullah-led with Pakistan are, at 1950s, if Sheikh in Jammu, Ladakh and ball rolling it may well
fables that pass for con- National Conference’s best, misleading. Abdullah argued that elsewhere are not prove to be a game-
ventional wisdom. political backing that Jammu & Kashmir self-determination was addressed through the changer in Kashmir.
The original blunder ultimately swung it. The with its extraordinary the inherent right of all peace process, it will *(The author teaches
was made in 1947 when Muslim League chose to medley of races, tribal peoples and demanded it send the message that at the Department of
the ideological prism of blame the Hindu groups, languages and for Kashmiris, he could ‘violence pays’. This Political Science,
the two-nation theory Maharaja because it religions is arguably one not justify denying the would defeat the very University of Delhi)
was used to characterize would have been far of the most diverse same to people of purpose of a peace
Kashmir as a Hindu- more difficult to explain regions in the subconti- Jammu and Ladakh. process. And yet, J&K’s
Muslim conflict. This how a popular Muslim nent. Its majority com- However, the latter’s pluralities are an asset, --Source: Times of India
PC's 'Indian' Geelani: the insider
killed in an encounter in vil- surrender, spend few years in that they will bow to the God of his followers (Muslims) of ter-
(Contd. from Page 7) lage Chivdara of Beerwah jail and are now openly run- their choosing and base their rorising Hindus (Polytheists)?
Kuka Parrey. This too did tehsil. Geelani publicly ning his Tehrik-i-Hurriyat. culture and civilisation on the Yet he is not booked under the
not work. declared to the assembled And what is Tehrik-i- philosophies and points of view relevant sections of IPC. He is
An alternate plan was mourners that he knew who Hurriyat? This Geelani 'the of their liking are hereby told the only 'Indian' who calls
hatched. A group of hardcore the informer (mukhbir) was Indian' once thrown out of unequivocally that the Omar Abdullah the chief min-
HM 'commanders' that includ- and the next day, the bullet Hurriyat Conference (was it a Messenger of God has not been ister of Indian occupied
ed Abdul Majeed Hajam, M ridden body of Abdul Khaliq part of a deep rooted conspira- sent to accommodate them, but Kashmir. Even the Pakistanis
Ashraf Hajam, Tufail a 'coy Mir of J&K police, of the same cy?) floated another political has been sent to impose the refer to the state of J&K as the
commander' and younger village, was found in the vil- party under the name and title instructions of (the one) God Indian administered J&K
brother of Zafar-ul-Islam of lage square. Geelani had of 'Tehrik-i-Hurriyat Jammu that he brings on every aspect state. In a booklet 'teen hadaf'
Salvation Movement and deputed Musaib bhai, a of creation. This (the will of (three aims), he throws caution
Fayaz Ahmed Ahangar alias Pakistani militant to kill Mir. CONTINUATION God) has to be carried out by to the winds and pleads
Junaid-ul-Islam were ordered This modern day godfather him in whatever manner intensely for the creation for
to surrender along with their controls HM, appoints naazims and Kashmir in 2004 with required. You should leave no ummah, where there will be no
arms and then work for Hm (commanders) of even pla- himself as its chairman. The stone un-turned to geographical demarcations
from within. To Geelani's dis- toons, companies and battal- constitution (dastoor) of condemn/admonish/lashout at and different governments, but
belief and shock, most of these ions - not to speak of higher Tehrik-i-Hurriyat right in its the apostate polytheist and the just one khilafat. This modern
surrendered militants actually formations, looks after the permeable, incites, instigates disbeliever to accept this, he day 'Indian' godfather is call-
started working against HM, finances and has a well knit and provokes its members to may try howsoever hard ing the shots.
but Geelani could not take it organisational set up where he eliminate all non-believers in (towards the controversy): this
lightly. He got Abdul Majeed has his favoured and trusted the name of Islam and thus mission of the Messenger will The state bureaucracy and
Hajam burnt alive in a brick commanders working for him. complete the unfinished task stand accomplished”. police are unwilling to touch
kiln, to send a sterm message A well known journalist of the Prophet. Just read what Is this 'Indian' not exhorting him.
to any prospective 'renegades'. worked for him for years under is written in the very first Printer Publisher B.N. Kaul for and on behalf of Panun Kashmir Foundation.
He continued issuing 'Death the assumed name of Idrees chapter (there are three chap- Editor: SHAILENDRAAIMAComputer Graphic: S.K. Babbu, Printed at : The
Orders' regularly Mir Khan. This journalist later ters in all) of the constitution Kashmir Times Press, Gangyal, Jammu
Asadullah, a prominent worked as a staffer of a nation- (DASTOOR) pages 4 and 5. Owned by: PANUN KASHMIR FOUNDATIONPublished from PANUN KASH-
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THE PLACE VALUE
June 2011
Lalded Consciousness”-II
energy or the soul into other poetry and gave us the tongue rejecting the idol worship but sal significance and proves
bodies but Lalded had to say that we exist and belong transcending it through that Lalded Consciousness, is
attained that state of shiva- to the land of Lalded. Thus awareness that everything is not a reduction but a totality
hood where she could play this Lalded consciousness adds a Shiva and there is nothing to in itself. That is why all mean-
game of transformation with new dimension to the place offer because that awareness ingful mystics and poets and
every cell of her body. This consciousness of Kashmir and makes everyone of your acts, the commom folks after her
By Dileep Kumar Kaul practice is known among mys- becomes synonymous with it. your interaction with any- show their association with
tics as ‘Chandrakala’. Such Lalded was a Shaiva Yogini thing between sky and earth, Lalded consciousness.
FROM the stories of its states are not achieved all of a and thus could not take this your every experience the wor- Lalded legion amply reflects
origin as mentioned in sudden. She had worked on a world as an illusion. She had a ship of lord. This is human that the Lalded consciousness
Neelmata Purana to our tradition of mystic practices strong awareness of the objec- interaction with the world is so deeply rooted even in the
times Kashmir has got a mys- which existed in her times tive world and exhibits a deep around in its totality through ecological entities of Kashmir.
tic feeling associated with it. which was nurtured by great consciousness of the place she which any difference between Lotus stem (nadur) is cooked
In Neelmata Purana the land sages like Acharya dwelled in, that is Kashmir. the deity and devotee is by all Kashmiris and is rel-
of Kashmir is itself the body of Abhinavagupta and Acharya One of her vaakhs which is erased. Even worship is not ished as a delicacy. It grows in
Mother Goddess and the life- Utpladeva and achieved the easier to understand but com- needed because whatever you many lakes of Kashmir. When
line of this land the sacred extraordinary state of her plex in its structure is impor- do is the doing of God. This we cut a lotus stem into two
river “Vitasta” too is Mother yoga. She was the living epito- tant from this point of view:- verse exhibits the ecological and pull the two pieces apart
Goddess herself. With such a me of this tradition. This prac- Gagan tsuy bootal tsuy thought of the highest order, we see extremely fine hair
mystic lore associated with tice attained heights with her Tsuy then pawan tu raath which leaves even the concept between the two pieces. There
this land the people who and after her we do not know Arag tsandan posh ponya of ‘Deep Ecology’ far behind. is a Legend associated with it.
inhabit it have a natural affin- anybody who had achieved tsuy The concept of Deep Ecology Once Lalded was working on a
ity towards mysticism and this state. Before her also Soruy tsay tu laegizi has inspired many interna- spinning wheel. She had spun
they readily enter into discus- nobody had achieved this kyah. tional environmental groups extremely fine thread. But her
sions about the comparison of state. That is why every mys- (you are the sky and the like Friends of Earth, Earth mother-in-law, criticized her
the powers of various mystics. tic of Kashmir finds her worth earth, you are the day, the First and Sea Shepherd. This for not spinning fine enough.
She threw the thread in a
And when we talk of mystics emulating. Lalded represent- breeze and the night, you are concept was given by
pond which grew into lotus
Lalded is held in the highest ed the pinnacle of the mystic the grain offered in oblation, Norwegian philosopher Arne
stem. The mystic lore of
esteem by the common folk of tradition of Kashmir. you are the sandal paste and Naess in 1972. With other
Kashmir holds that the thread
Kashmir and almost all mys- Her poetry also marks the the flowers, you are all these thinkers he put forth eight
we see in the lotus stem is the
tics most of whom were poets beginning of the literary histo- and everything , so what basic principals of deep ecolo-
same thread which was spun
as well have held her as worth ry of Kashmiri language. It should I offer you in worship?) gy the first two of which are:-
by Lalded. This legend
emulating through their must be kept in mind that her In the structure of this 1. Every living being has an
grasped the imagination of
recorded word and thus placed poetry is not a treatise on vaakh, every word is meaning- inherent value.
Kashmiri women who through
themselves in her tradition. shaivite philosophy of fully placed. It is like a camera 2. The prosperity and diver-
this have offered resistance to
This reverence for mystics is a Kashmir. It is an extraordi- which focuses on the sky then sity of life has an inherent
all torturing mothers-in-law.
very important aspect of the nary expression of her experi- moves to earth, it happens in value.
All daughters-in-law in
place consciousness of ences which are predominant- the day light then a breeze of These two principals can be
Kashmir, who have borne the
Kashmir which makes ly associated with her shaiva air blows and there is night, seen in this vaakh of Lalded ,
torture of their mothers-in-
Kashmiri People what they yoga. Every one of her vaakhs then there is grain of oblation, which was written centuries
law, are referred to as
are. Lalded is considered the is an intense experience in the sandal paste, flowers and before Arne Naess. But Lalded’s. Kashmiris have
pinnacle of mystic tradition of which every particle of her water then there is Lalded nobody understands this in offered resistance to Sayyeds
Kashmir. Attempts to appro- being seems to be involved. thinking that shiva is every- Kashmir these days. They are through the fable of Lalded
priate her by the Islamists of She has given such heights to thing and if he is everything busy proving whether she had jumping into the tandoor of a
Kashmir bears testimony to every aspect of poetry that no what should be offered to him! converted to Islam or not and baker on seeing Shahi
the fact that her inclusion in Kashmiri poet has ever after Now if the camera moves their ecology is taking a beat- Hamadan and coming out clad
any faith will glorify that her been able to fall near her. from sky to earth all the ing. in a divine costume to show
faith. This also shows that Before her there were poets things in between will be visi- It should be noted in this that Sayyeds ran away
even these Islamists could not and mystics who wrote their ble. When a day passes and vaakh that the sky and the because they feared they
escape the effect of Lalded con- experiences in form of poetry night comes there is generally earth Lalded is talking about would die if they passed
sciousness. but all of them wrote in a cool breeze in between in the is the sky and the earth of through fire. But in Kashmir a
All the mystics and those Sanskrit, Lalded was the first evening. Between all these Kashmir because she had not woman could do it. This shows
who have the awareness of the who made Kashmiri as her natural processes the cultural been outside Kashmir. All her that Lalded has been an
mystic practice of Lalded con- medium of expression. But act of worship is there which experiences were in and of empowering consciousness for
sider her an unparalleled here also a big question arises. again is done with natural Kashmir. So the earth and sky Kashmiris and has made them
Shaiva yogini. Mystics of The sort of poetry she wrote, things like grain, sandal and all things between them to assert their spiritual, intel-
Kashmir give an example to the powerful matured lan- paste, flowers and water. And are in Kashmir and all are lectual and emotional strength
explain her extraordinary guage that carries the extraor- all these natural things are shiva. She expresses Kashmir and specificity from time to
yoga marga. Lalded would dinary intensity of her experi- not assets granted to us by the as sacred geography and gets time. No other personality in
keep an inverted earthen ences could not be achieved at God as semitic religions tell connected with the tradition of Kashmir has attained such
saucer (Toke in Kashmiri) on one blow. Such a kind of lan- us. They are themselves shiva Neelmata Purana where significance or dwelled in the
her head and then stand on guage-Desh Bhasha could not the ultimate lord, not his man- mother Goddess herself says consciousness of people in the
another earthen saucer. She come without a powerful tradi- ifestations but he himself as is that Kashmir is her body. matters ranging from mun-
had got such control on the tion of doing literature init. evident from the vaakh. This Same is said here in terms of dane to spiritual to this
energies of her body that in But such works in the the is the ultimate non-dualistic Shiva. This is the miracle of extent.
some moments her body would Kashmiri desh Bhasha before thinking. And when this con- Lalded and her consciousness. Lalded Consciousness is
slowly dissolve away and the Lalded are not available. sciousness comes to a person Lalded is the most profound synonymous with the con-
earthen saucer on her head Lalded’s language and poetry the traditional form of worship expression in Kashmiri lan- sciousness of our being as
would sit on the earthen is not the origin, it is the peak, undergoes a crisis. If every- guage where the geography of Kashmiris and underlines spe-
saucer on which was under the pinnacle of a literary and thing is Shiva, flowers, grains, Kashmir becomes the sacred cific meanings carried by
her feet. Then she would reap- linguistic tradition but with- water etc. what is there to geography. When you are Kashmir as a place. It incorpo-
pear from within these out any trace of the predeces- offer. Every natural happen- associated with her conscious- rates the grandeur of our tra-
saucers again with the saucer sors. Lalded’s poetry carries ing is shiva. Every object is ness you are automatically ditions, the depth and univer-
on her head, standing on within her the labour of those shiva and thus has inherent associated with Kashmir, his- sality of our thought, our spir-
itual intensity, evolution of
another saucer. The mystics of predecessors who transmitted value. Here we see no differ- tory, geography and culture of
our linguistic heritage and
Kashmir agree that she was to her the legacy which she ence in sakaar-the manifest it and all the meanings
ecological thinking which
the only one who had achieved carried to the topmost heights. and nirakaar-the unmanifest. Kashmir has as a place. In the
respects the inherent value of
this state. She had the power Thus Lalded consciousness Shiva is everything and every- Vaakh given above the earth
every being. It is the con-
to change the matter consti- stimulates within us an obli- thing is Shiva. Everything and sky of Kashmir are Shiva
sciousness which will make us
tuting her body into energy gation to remain grateful for that has shape is shiva and and thus attain a universal
live till eternity.
and the energy back into mat- ever to those forgotten poets every other thing that doesn’t significance. This shows that
ter. We have heard of the prac- whose toil and sweat made our have a shpae is shiva as well. the deep consciousness of your *(The author is a prolific
tices of transforming the vital language what it is in Lalded’s This understanding is not place only can give you univer- writer and a poet).
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CONTINUATION
June 2011
(From Page 6) Democratic Process: Conversion into a Subversive Space
overlap between the objec-
tives of the secessionists and
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, that the Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah,
the main party of the ruling
fight for Kashmir’s right of she did not mince words to Indira Gandhi visualized the role of
alliance and helplessness
self-determination was lost in rebuff him and wrote back, “…
because all organs of the soci- 1948. What Sheikh said in For the present it is sufficient Congress to preserve the ‘secular demo-
ety seem to be on the other
response revealed his ideolog- to recall that you misled me
side. They are in fact two cratic unity of India’in Jammu and Kashmir.
ical disposition as well as urge and the Congress party about
poles of a vicious cycle which
for an alternative strategic the nature of your talks with
feed each other. Present Congress regime is considering
paradigm. He said, “Mr. Sheikh Sahib….. For me the
Unwillingness generates help-
lessness and the helplessness Bhutto’s statement as report- accord was, and remains a Musharraf formula as a solution of Kashmir
ed in the Indian Press is not method of fruitful cooperation
feeds the unwillingness.
clear to me… It is a historical among all secular and patriot- problem and in fact conceding to carve out a
Omar Abdullah, while
truth which had been amply ic forces in the state. It cer-
responding to the criticism of
proved that any country tainly did not mean that separate territorial sphere of Muslim
his handling of the situation
which has depended on other Congress should fade into
made a very revealing state- influence in Jammu and Kashmir.
powers for achievement of its oblivion. I did not and cannot
ment. “By focusing on my
style of governance, you are objectives has always met accept this interpretation of
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the role of Congress to pre- Jammu and Kashmir is
India Go’. What has that to do Sheikh assumed the helms you are not unaware of these serve the ‘secular democratic mutating into a subversive
with my style of governance,” of affairs in the state and facts— was it not incumbent unity of India’ in Jammu and space.
he said. “There are lessons to assiduously saw to it that the on all Congress workers to Kashmir. Present Congress Conclusion
be learnt from this crisis - les- cadres of plebiscite front and work selflessly to fight all regime is considering
sons I have to learn, lesson even Al Fatah were accommo- forces that are against the Musharraf formula as a solu- We cannot overlook the core
the state has to learn and dated within the new power secular and democratic unity tion of Kashmir problem and content of the democratic
important lessons the structure. Pro –Pak and radi- of our country. Would we have in fact conceding to carve out process employed in the state
Government of India has to cal Islamist formation of carried any credibility had we a separate territorial sphere even if we choose to have faith
learn. Don’t underplay the Jamaat- i-Islami of Kashmir done what you prompted us to of Muslim influence in in Government of India and
complexity of the issue that if was first to realize the import do i.e., abandon the battle in Jammu and Kashmir. It has assume that it has allowed
I change my style of gover- of capturing the legislative the valley?” sent unambiguous signals to soft secessionism in the con-
nance, miraculously, every- space to sustain secessionism The difference between the the displaced Kashmiri stitutionally sanctioned demo-
thing will get better. Till in the valley. The then methodologies adopted by the Hindus to submit to the domi- cratic space only to purge the
June, you hadn’t a problem Jamaat supremo, Ali Shah terrorist regimes in nant politics of the valley. The secessionist sentiment. A
with my style,” Abdullah Geelani, contested elections to Afghanistan and Pakistan present Congress regime peach fruit graft on an apple
observed. The real paradox of the State Legislative and the separatist regimes in seeks to hostage Hindus to the tree grows peaches not apples.
the situation is that the peo- Assembly and won in 1972, Jammu and Kashmir needs to imperatives of Muslim A secessionist graft on a sov-
ple on the streets raise brazen 1977, and 1997. He had the be recognized with clearity. In Identity politics in the state to ereign democratic body grows
secessionist slogans and the full endorsement of his party Afghanistan and Pakistan preserve its relationship with only secessionism. In fact
Chief Minister does not at all and also Pakistan to do so. terrorist regimes seek cre- the Muslim communalism in secessionist political grafts
consider them as against his This is how one young partici- ation of ungoverned spaces. In the state. It has used its clout assume a malignant tendency
government. The ruling party pant in the 2010 stone pelting Jammu and Kashmir armed in Jammu only to paralyze the to throw up metastasis else-
in fact finds a resonance in campaign explained the par- separatism views control of growing restlessness in the where on the body polity. The
the secessionist din raised in ticipation of Ali Shah Geelani governed space as a key com- state against the increased interplay of Maoists and
the streets. in the electoral process of the ponent of their strategy. That clout of Muslim identity poli- Islamists in Kashmir is an
In Jammu and Kashmir one state, “….And there are some is why we see symbiotic rela- tics in the state. expression of this phenome-
thing which has been over- people who say Geelani con- tions between regional During Vajpayee and non. Democratic process can
looked over the years by the tested elections earlier, yes he Muslim parties promoting Manmohan Singh regimes in only neutralize secessionism if
think tanks of the main- did, but why? At that time the religion based identity politics the Centre we have seen a it chooses to contest it and not
stream political parties as entire pro- freedom groups who participate in elections perverted democratic attitude cohabit with it. Democratic
well as the experts on strate- contested elections, they all and the frank secessionist for- being allowed and promoted process can become effective if
gic affairs in India is the con- wanted to raise Kashmir issue mations who oppose elections. in the state which operates it does not allow itself to
sensus within the separatist through Indian Parliament.” When Indira Gandhi har- beyond the Constitution of become an insulator of regres-
constituency in the valley that Geelani himself describes his nessed the democratic process India. We have seen many sive content of secessionism.
they have to control the ‘space participation in the Assembly to neutralize the secessionist times Legislative Assembly in Democracy wins if it does not
of governance’. This consen- elections in a brazen uninhib- tendencies of National confer- the state taking up issues offer itself as a willing accom-
sus reflected for the first time ited way, “Yes that was a com- ence by voluntarily vacating which do not constitutionally plice in creating a false con-
after the defeat of Pakistan in pulsion; when National space for Sheikh Mohammed belong to it. The Greater sciousness based on historical
the 1971 war. Sheikh
Abdullah agreed to join back Conference, Congress and Abdullah she was basically Autonomy resolution by the distortions and falsehoods.
the electoral politics because other parties fight elections, committed to join the battle National Conference or the The Prime Minister’s hope
he was aware that the sepa- they raise slogans of social- with the secessionist and visu- Women’s Permanent that ‘functioning democracy’
ratist class in the valley, at ism, secular democracy and alized a critical role for the Residents Bill, are the glaring argument can act as a critical
least the overwhelming the accession of India, and national political formations examples. When the Chief deterrent against one more
majority of it, was convinced these slogans are anti-Islam. in the state. The present Minister used the podium of secessionist upsurge in the
about denying the pro India We people are for Islam, so Congress regime has aban- the assembly to comment on valley may be misplaced
politics in Jammu and whenever these principles and doned the battle in Kashmir. the accession of the state with because international actors
Kashmir the space of gover- ideological systems are being When Azad became Chief the Union of India we were know it very well that Prime
nance to survive in the after- forced to the Muslims, we Minister during Congress- witnessing the crossing of Minister of India has shown a
math of Pakistan’s humiliat- must fight against these anti- PDP coalition in the state, sacrosanct lines being allowed proclivity not to defend what
ing defeat. Control of the Islamic theories. That was the Congress allowed PDP to by the Centre in the name of is sacrosanct in Jammu and
state government emerged as main objective for which we nominate candidates for the conflict resolution. Kashmir. These players have
an imperative strategic neces- were fighting the elections.” assembly bye elections in con- The conferring of almost a ample experience that
sity for the separatist elite in The transformation of the stituencies which as per coali- veto to the separatist leader- Government of India under-
the valley. That Sheikh democratic space into a sub- tion sharing formula belonged ship operating outside the mines its own leverages in
Abdullah had taken up the versive space started with to it. Abandoning Kashmir to boundaries of democratic Jammu and Kashmir. They
course of joining the power earnestness after Sheikh political parties espousing process by the Government of must be baffled that in a wors-
politics in the state not Abdullah assumed the reins of Muslim sub-nationalism has India has led to democratic ening situation for the sepa-
because of any ideological power in 1975. Indira Gandhi in recent years been advocat- process assuming a character ratists in Jammu and
transformation but to meet realized its unfolding sooner ed by top security experts who to target the credibility of the Kashmir Government of India
the exigencies of the times than later. To an explanation have served Government of process itself. In this situation is more than willing to lose.
was clear when he responded from Syed Mir Qasim who India at the highest level. extra constitutional impor-
to the statement of the then was instrumental in persuad- Former director RAW, Sh A.S tance accorded to Geelani or *(The author heads
President of Pakistan, ing her to hand over power to Dulat, is on record of having Omar Faroq is in fact an Panun Kashmir)