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From: Vijay
Dear Mr. Akbar,
Re: your piece in The Pioneer, 'Is an India-Pakistani deal brewing' (Jan.10,2009).
I do not believe that a born again Jang from Pakistan or the attempts of TOI, the three governments of Pakistan, India and the U.S. can fool the Indian people.
They simply will not accept autonomy for J&K. In any event the ISI and the hapless Zardari are doing their best to sabotage it since they are sending infiltrators and firing rockets into the border villages like Wagah and Attari.
I would like to also make some observations on some of your recent blogs in TOI (Times of India).
I do not know if it is your journalistic style or something else altogether, but I do confess that it is not easy to make out what you are saying, one cannot see the wood for the trees.
There are many twists and turns until the final punch line which one is frankly not expecting. Here are two examples:
1. 'Path to peace runs through Kashmir ' blog in TOI (Jan.3, 2010).
After what seems like interesting twists and turns comes the final punch lines and I quote :
" Perhaps this subcontinent needs one last
touch of surgery. The price of Partition in Punjab and Bengal was horrific, but it brought peace. . ."
What precisely are you saying ? Have a second Partition ? It seems a rather cold blooded assertion. No Indian will accept that.
I find it troubling.
2. In a blog in TOI, Nov.15,2009 'Why some political parties lost the plot' you make the astonishing statement concerning Harit Desh in U.P.:
" What the Muslims of UP are looking for. .
is a defined political space within which they can find food-faith security. . . On the table is Ajit Singh's dream of Harit Desh in Western U.P. Such a state will have a substantive Muslim population, as well as a string of important Muslim educational institutions, from Aligarh to Deoband. It will become a natural socio-economic magnet for Muslims of the north. The idea is still in an embryonic stage. Whoever articulates it, will have rung up a wake-up call."
Are you advocating the balkanisation of India ?
All of the above is deeply troubling, coming as it does from a well known Indian Muslim journalist who has been described as a moderate and liberal.
Sincerely,
Dr. Vijaya
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From: Vijay
Dear Mr. Akbar,
Re: your piece in The Pioneer, 'Is an India-Pakistani deal brewing' (Jan.10,2009).
I do not believe that a born again Jang from Pakistan or the attempts of TOI, the three governments of Pakistan, India and the U.S. can fool the Indian people.
They simply will not accept autonomy for J&K. In any event the ISI and the hapless Zardari are doing their best to sabotage it since they are sending infiltrators and firing rockets into the border villages like Wagah and Attari.
I would like to also make some observations on some of your recent blogs in TOI (Times of India).
I do not know if it is your journalistic style or something else altogether, but I do confess that it is not easy to make out what you are saying, one cannot see the wood for the trees.
There are many twists and turns until the final punch line which one is frankly not expecting. Here are two examples:
1. 'Path to peace runs through Kashmir ' blog in TOI (Jan.3, 2010).
After what seems like interesting twists and turns comes the final punch lines and I quote :
" Perhaps this subcontinent needs one last
touch of surgery. The price of Partition in Punjab and Bengal was horrific, but it brought peace. . ."
What precisely are you saying ? Have a second Partition ? It seems a rather cold blooded assertion. No Indian will accept that.
I find it troubling.
2. In a blog in TOI, Nov.15,2009 'Why some political parties lost the plot' you make the astonishing statement concerning Harit Desh in U.P.:
" What the Muslims of UP are looking for. .
is a defined political space within which they can find food-faith security. . . On the table is Ajit Singh's dream of Harit Desh in Western U.P. Such a state will have a substantive Muslim population, as well as a string of important Muslim educational institutions, from Aligarh to Deoband. It will become a natural socio-economic magnet for Muslims of the north. The idea is still in an embryonic stage. Whoever articulates it, will have rung up a wake-up call."
Are you advocating the balkanisation of India ?
All of the above is deeply troubling, coming as it does from a well known Indian Muslim journalist who has been described as a moderate and liberal.
Sincerely,
Dr. Vijaya
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2 comments:
Militarily, letting Kashmir Ladakh go (part of J&K) will be suicidal for India. Otherwise, giving up Kashmir would bring sense to Kashmiris albeit too late as they would be swallowed up by Pakistan and Chinese.
Actually, the Kashmiris know it very well and are having the best of both worlds. They are bleeding India and use Pak backed PR and media to drum up sympathy for themselves and embarassment for India, nothing else.
Had not Kashmiri political dynasties used their influence with the Congress to retain Kashmir as their fiefdom at the expense of the rest of the country and integrated with India, Kashmir would have seen development and proper integration. The segregation and separate status discouraged investment and also to such extent denied opportunities to locals who had to depend on tourism alone. A tourism based economy is easy to destroy and Pakistan did just that. After doing that, they provoked the disgruntled and jobless locals that the Indian state was discriminatory. Two generations have sprung up - possibly three, given the rate at which Mohmedans breed - with this warped perspective and the attendant hatred of India that goes with it.
It would be less costlier to crush these and bring in development with Government Protection. Only when the Kashmiris have their jobs to defend, will they fight Pakistanis alongwith the rest of India. As of now, they have it easy, living off the sweat and blood of rest of the nation; and embarassing it to bleed it all the more.
I think partition of Kashmir is good, provided (a) the border is easily defendable. (b) there is complete exchange of population.
We Hindus can live without those ingrates (Kashmiri muslims), who shelter terrorist thugs. Let them live under Taliban, who cares?
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